The Job/What You'll Do:
The Senior Payroll and Accounts Payable Specialist is responsible for overseeing the Solari's outgoing payments, ensuring that vendor invoices and payments are processed accurately and on time. Duties include verifying invoice details, rectifying payment discrepancies, fostering vendor relationships, and supporting audit activities. The role also contributes to month-end closing activities and may entail mentoring and/or coaching junior staff.
Responsibilities:
· Gather, review and verify for final Finance approval all the necessary supporting documentation (i.e., approvals, invoice, requisitions etc.) to process and pay the accounts payable invoices.
· Review invoices to ensure reasonableness and proper approvals in compliance to existing policies.
· Perform data entry tasks and review for the accounting team.
· Conduct research and resolve discrepancies, payment issues, and vendor credits through effective communication within the organization as well as with vendors.
· Generate system related reports and collaborate with the Human Resource and Accounts Payable department representatives to ensure timely and accurate payment of benefit plan premiums.
· Coordinate and carry out a variety of complex tasks involved in the preparation, processing, and maintenance of payroll, salary, and benefits data.
· Ensures clients, employees, and contractors receive their payments accurately and timely.
· Conduct research and analysis on discrepancies, processing the necessary payroll and adjustment entries.
· Identify potential improvements in Paycom and other systems to boost the accuracy and efficiency of our payroll processes.
· Review and validate payroll records for precision, including new employees, separations, leaves of absence, changes in pay rates, and more.
· Explain and interpret complex payroll information to employees at all levels of the organization.
· Adapt to changes in requirements, processes and employee contracts to provide the most current, accurate information.
· Coordinate with HR team on incoming employee data relating to new hires, terminations, and earning/deduction adjustments to accurately process payroll for the period.
· Prepare and process Quarterly Tax Returns, as well as W2s and 1099s with accuracy and attention to detail.
· Execute statistical reporting and audits related to employee remuneration, encompassing pay, commissions, bonuses, vacation and sick leave, disability and workers' compensation leave, along with taxes and deductions.
· Complete post-payroll audits and generate reports, establish metrics, and keep track of any problems.
· Document and maintain department job aids and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
· Other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
Education & Experience:
Working Conditions:
While performing the job duties in the office or at a home office, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, and use hands; they must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Exposure to noise typical with office operations. Ability to hear and speak. Employees must maintain a stable and secure private home internet with a minimum of 50Mbps download and 5Mbps upload, and an average jitter less than 20% of latency. https://speed.cloudflare.com/
Who We Are & What We Offer:
Solari is an award-winning nonprofit that operates a 24/7 crisis line serving statewide in Arizona, Oklahoma and Colorado. Our mission is to Inspire Hope through our talented and compassionate staff.
Since 2007, Solari has been providing crisis contact center services and in that short time has helped thousands of individuals and families connect to the help they need. Additionally, in that short timeframe, Solari has grown to expand services to a peer-run Warm Line, Serious Mental Illness (SMI) determinations, mobile team dispatches, crisis transportation services, emergency room-based assessments, Department of Child Safety (DCS) rapid response and crisis stabilization services, telephone follow-up to those who need it, tragedy support lines and other in-kind services to the community.
Solari is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and does not unlawfully discriminate against any employee or applicant for employee per applicable federal, state, and local laws. At Solari, a diverse mix of highly talented, innovative, and dedicated people come together to make a lifetime impact on each of our Client's lives. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment.
We are focused on equality and believe deeply in diversity of race, color, ancestry, age, veteran status, marital status, creed, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, national origin, and other legally protected group status.