Payroll Staff Accountant

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $100k - $140k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧾 Payroll

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Sift

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2011

🔒 Cybersecurity

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

Cybersecurity • Fintech • SaaS

Sift is an industry leader in digital fraud management, offering robust AI-powered solutions to combat various forms of online fraud such as account takeovers, payment fraud, and chargebacks. With a scalable platform, Sift enables businesses to secure their operations through advanced decision-making and fraud detection technologies. Their platform is trusted by over 700 global brands, providing precise, user-level insights to turn fraud challenges into opportunities for scalable growth. Sift emphasizes the importance of partnerships and a strong community to enhance their fraud decisioning service, fostering secure business development across various sectors like e-commerce, fintech, and travel. Additionally, Sift is recognized for its insights and efforts in fraud industry leadership, featuring capabilities such as payment protection, account defense, and dispute management.

📋 Description

• Process bi-weekly payroll for a multi-state employee population and monthly payroll for a global employee population, including pay calculations, validations, audits, and finalization • Maintain payroll accuracy for earnings, deductions, garnishments, taxes, retro adjustments, leave pay, and off-cycle payments • Support year-end activities including W-2 preparation, audits, and payroll calendar planning • Post payroll-related journal entries to the General Ledger and perform payroll reconciliations, resolving variances in a timely manner • Partner with Finance on payroll reporting and balancing • Review, code, and approve employee expense reports and corporate card transactions; post related journal entries and perform reconciliations • Create and enhance payroll reports and dashboards to support operational needs, trend analysis, and leadership requests • Support system enhancements, testing, and implementations, including upgrades, configuration changes, process documentation, and user support • Maintain documentation, SOPs, and internal controls aligned with company policy and audit expectations • Assist with continuous improvement initiatives that streamline payroll workflows, strengthen controls, and improve the employee experience • Take on ad hoc projects and requests as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• 3–5 years of hands-on payroll processing experience, including bi-weekly payroll cycles • Multi-state payroll experience with a proven ability to research and apply changing payroll laws and regulations • Experience with ADP Workforce Now • Strong Excel skills, including lookups, pivot tables, and data validation • High attention to detail, strong sense of ownership, and a commitment to accuracy and confidentiality • Ability to manage competing priorities and meet payroll cutoff timelines • Collaborative, service-oriented communicator who can explain payroll topics clearly to non-payroll stakeholders • Continuous improvement mindset with comfort learning new tools and processes • Nice to Have: ERP experience, Netsuite preferred; Expense Software experience (Navan, Expensify, Brex)

🏖️ Benefits

• Offers Equity