Payroll and Accounting Analyst

🔥 15 hours ago

🌲 Oregon – Remote

🌲 Oregon – Remote

💵 $66k - $96.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧾 Payroll

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The Standard

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1906

🏥 Healthcare

⚖️ Legal

💼 Consulting

Healthcare • Legal • Consulting

The Standard is a comprehensive provider of insurance, retirement, and investment products and services, targeting individuals, families, businesses, and organizations. Based in Portland, Oregon, and part of the StanCorp Financial Group, Inc. , The Standard offers products such as life and disability insurance, annuities, vision and dental coverage, and retirement plans. Their solutions aim to facilitate financial wellness and enable effective benefits administration, catering to clients of all sizes. The company is renowned for its people-first commitment and innovative partnerships, contributing to a seamless customer experience.

📋 Description

• Analyze and audit payroll data to ensure accurate, timely, and compliant payroll processing • Perform payroll reconciliations, variance analysis, and balancing activities for earnings, deductions, taxes, and payroll-related accounts • Research and resolve complex payroll and payroll tax issues, including supporting payroll tax compliance, tax notices, and year-end activities • Partner with employees, managers, HR, Benefits, Finance, HRIS, and vendors to resolve payroll inquiries and ensure payroll data integrity • Identify and implement process improvements • Strengthen payroll controls and support audits • Participate in testing and validation of payroll system enhancements • Perform payroll accounting, reporting, payroll tax administration, payroll-related data management, and employee deduction administration • Support employees and business partners with complex payroll inquiries

🎯 Requirements

• High School Diploma required • 6 years of payroll experience, preferably supporting a multi-state workforce of 1,000+ employees across multiple legal entities • Demonstrated experience with multi-state payroll processing and payroll tax compliance, including federal, state, and local tax requirements • Experience performing payroll reconciliations, variance analysis, balancing activities, and payroll-related accounting support • Experience researching and resolving complex payroll issues, payroll tax discrepancies, and tax notices • Strong understanding of federal and state wage and hour laws, payroll regulations, and compliance requirements • Experience using large ERP and payroll systems to process payroll, conduct analysis, support testing activities, and resolve payroll issues • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including data analysis, reconciliations, formulas, reporting, and data validation • Ability to leverage technology, automation, analytics, and AI-enabled tools to improve payroll processes, strengthen controls, increase efficiency, and support data-driven decision making • Ability to travel once per year • Must pass criminal background investigation and employment, education, and licensing verification • Must be bondable

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • 401(k) plan with matching company contributions • Annual incentive bonus plan • Generous paid time off including 11 holidays, 2 wellness days, and 8 volunteer hours annually • PTO increases with tenure • Supportive, responsive management approach • Career growth and advancement opportunities • Paid parental leave • Adoption/surrogacy assistance • Employee giving program that double matches donations to eligible nonprofits and schools • Work-life balance support • Drug- and alcohol-free work environment