Senior Corporate Accountant Jobs in Houston, TX

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Halliburton is seeking a Payroll Accountant Manager to support its payroll accounting operations in a large enterprise environment. This role is responsible for planning, organizing, and leading the accounting department. Responsible for accurate general ledger entries related to payroll, performing balance sheet reconciliations, and ensuring proper accrual accounting for employee compensation, benefits, and stock activity.

Key Responsibilities

• Under broad direction, responsible for planning, organizing, and leading accounting department staff in the activities supporting general ledger, sub-systems, and related business applications, which may also include the preparation of financial statements and ancillary reports in a corporate or cost accounting environment.
• Responsible for preparation, review, and accuracy of business activities within the department, including executing financial close activities, reviewing and updating business practices, performing internal control self-assessments, preparing forecasts and annual business plans, and performing ongoing process improvements.
• Responsible for managing the recruitment, training, and development of accounting personnel within the assigned area.
• Serves as a trusted business advisor to management on key financial issues, financial performance, and strategy execution, including commercial business insight.
• Responsible for interpreting and applying company policy and accounting principles to financial transactions for internal control compliance.
• Manage payroll accounting, accruals, balance sheet reconciliations, and GL entries.
• Manage PTO/vacation reserve tracking and year-end vacation payouts.
• Reconciliation of payroll accounts, including wages payable, taxes, and benefits.
• Maintain accurate payroll records for audits and regulatory purposes.
• Manage internal and external audits related to payroll.
• Ensure adherence to internal controls and company policies.
• Identify and implement improvements to payroll processes.
• Support payroll system upgrades or implementations.

Qualifications

• Applies technical accounting skills acquired through completion of an accounting or business university degree and eight (8) years of progressive experience in finance or accounting related roles, to include management experience.
• 8+ years of accounting experience with direct payroll accounting responsibilities in a large enterprise strongly preferred.
• Strong command of GL accounting, accruals, reconciliation, and payroll-related accounting treatments.
• Demonstrates project management skills and awareness of financial performance metrics.
• Demonstrates strong knowledge in aspects of finance and accounting, internal controls and risk mitigation, company policy, financial analysis and statutory reporting, forecasting, and financial applications.
• SAP S/4HANA experience required; ADP familiarity a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA preferred or actively pursuing.
• Professional accounting certification preferred.
• Experience with ADP GlobalView (or enterprise-level payroll system) and SmartCompliance in a large enterprise payroll environment.
• Blackline experience.

Candidates having qualifications that exceed the minimum job requirements will receive consideration for higher level roles given (1) their experience, (2) additional job requirements, and/or (3) business needs. Depending on education, experience, and skill level, a variety of job opportunities might be available, including Corporate Accounting Manager, or Corporate Accounting Senior Manager.

World Class Benefits

At Halliburton, we're committed to providing you and your family with a comprehensive and affordable benefits package - which means we offer support for your physical, emotional, financial and parental needs, both now and in the future. When you join our team, you'll have access to a wide range of resources designed to help you thrive at work and at home. By clicking here, you can review a summary of the benefits available once you join.

Halliburton is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.

Location

3000 N. Sam Houston Parkway E., Houston, Texas, 77032, United States

Job Details

Requisition Number: 209973

Experience Level: Experienced Hire

Job Family: Support Services

Product Service Line: Finance

Full Time / Part Time: Full-time

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Compensation Information

Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience.