# Payroll Staff Accountant

**Company:** [Sift](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/sift)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Salary:** $100k – $140k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Adp Workforce Now, Excel, Pivot Tables, Vlookup, Data Validation, NetSuite, Navan, Expensify, Brex, Journal Entries, Payroll Reconciliation
**Posted:** 2026-06-16

> Own end-to-end payroll operations for multi-state and global employees, processing bi-weekly and monthly payroll cycles, posting journal entries, and maintaining reconciliations. Requires 3-5 years of multi-state payroll experience with ADP Workforce Now.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### Payroll Processing
- 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

### Accounting & Reconciliation
- 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

### Reporting & Systems
- 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

### Process & Controls
- 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

## Minimum Qualifications
- 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)

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