Accountant Senior

The Accountant Senior – Payroll role ensures the accuracy and timeliness of payroll funding, payroll tax payments, and payroll accounting in accordance with GAAP.

About Goodyear

• It employs about 63,000 people and manufactures its products in 48 facilities in 19 countries around the world.
• Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry.

Responsibilities

• The position manages payroll-related journal entries, tax issues, and accounting reconciliations while supporting financial reporting and management controls.
• It also conducts accounting research and implements process and technology improvements to drive standardization, efficiency, and continuous improvement.
• Also provides support to audit processes.
• Ensures payroll accounting accuracy and financial integrity by supporting timely payroll funding, payroll tax payments, and gross-to-net accounting in accordance with GAAP.
• Strengthens financial reporting and controls through payroll journal entries, post-payroll and month-end reconciliations, and support for management control design and testing.
• Helps mitigate payroll tax and accounting risks by researching tax issues, processing tax notices, and determining appropriate accounting treatments.
• Drives continuous improvement by analyzing and implementing process and technology changes that support greater standardization and optimization.
• You Will Do Process and manage payroll funding requests to support accurate and timely payroll payments.
• Handle federal and state payroll tax notices, researching issues and determining appropriate tax treatments.
• Research, document, and post payroll-related journal entries to the general ledger.
• Perform post-payroll and month-end reconciliations to help ensure payroll accounting accuracy.
• Support financial reporting and the design and testing of management controls related to payroll accounting.
• Identify and implement process and technology improvements that promote continuous improvement, standardization, and optimization.
• Provides support to audit and SOX control processes.

Requirements

• We Are Looking For Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or another business-related field.
• 2+ years of experience in Accounting, Auditing, and/or Financial Analysis.
• Experience in Payroll Accounting Additional Details Relocation Available: No Sponsorship Available: No Typical Schedule: Hybrid, 2 days a week in office.

Preferred

• Sets You Apart Experience within a large corporate or manufacturing organization or public accounting firm is preferred.
• Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or another business field and/or CPA certification are preferred qualifications.

Travel Requirement

No Advance English Proficiency #LI-SH1 Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies.

For more information about

Goodyear and its products, go to www.goodyear.com/corporate Goodyear is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law.