Senior Accountant – Part-Time

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Part-time Senior Accountant processing payroll entries, reconciliations, and reporting for TEGNA, a local news and services company. Supporting Finance teams across 64 television stations.

Responsibilities:

  • Interact with Finance Business Partners and Site Financial Analysts across TEGNA’s television-station portfolio to record payroll expenses in financial statements
  • Extract payroll general ledger reports from UKGPro, resolve mapping issues, review accuracy, and upload journal entries to Oracle Cloud ERP
  • Prepare and upload monthly payroll accrual journal entries
  • Prepare and upload payroll reclasses as necessary
  • Reconcile tax bank drafts to payroll registers and reclass drafts to the correct liability account
  • Upload detailed payroll data to the online reporting tool used by Finance Business Partners, Financial Analysts, and National Shared Service Center Accountants
  • Upload UltiPro detailed payroll data to an Access database for Corporate Accounting and ad hoc reports/queries
  • Build and maintain queries, reports, and tables in the Access database
  • Maintain user access to the online reporting tool
  • Prepare account reconciliations for assigned payroll general ledger accounts and resolve variances promptly
  • Develop process improvements for payroll system feeds to the general ledger
  • Maintain Ultipro GL mapping for earning, deduction, tax codes, and employee mapping
  • Represent Payroll from a Finance perspective during system upgrades and modifications
  • Respond to internal and external audit queries promptly and professionally
  • Provide analysis and reporting support for internal and external business partners

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting
  • Minimum 4–6 years accounting experience, including 2 or more years of payroll accounting experience
  • Experience with UKGPro payroll software preferred
  • Experience with Oracle Cloud ERP or similar ERP preferred
  • Good knowledge of accounting policies and procedures
  • Desire, ability and curiosity to investigate and recommend improvements to processes, procedures, and technology
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel and Access
  • Proven attention to detail, good organizational and prioritizing skills, and ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment
  • Ability to be self-motivated and proactive
  • Collaborative approach and experience working well with cross-functional teams
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills; strong interpersonal skills

Benefits:

  • This part-time role is not benefits eligible
  • TEGNA offers comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical, mental and financial health of employees and their families
  • Two medical plan options for full and part-time employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas
  • Dental and eye care coverage
  • Fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance
  • Disability and life insurance
  • 401(k) contributions of 1%–80% of pay on a pre-tax basis
  • Company matches contributions up to the first 4% of pay at 100%; contributions are 100% vested from day one
  • Nine free virtual doctor’s appointments annually through Teladoc for employees and eligible family members
  • Twelve free annual therapy sessions through Spring Health for employees and eligible family members
  • Generous Paid Time Off (PTO)
  • Nine paid holidays per year