GHJ Search and Staffing serves as the recruitment division of GHJ, a prominent national accounting and advisory firm. Our team provides qualified Accounting and Finance professionals on a temporary and permanent basis across a broad range of industries. GHJ’s relationship with our Global Advisory and Accounting Network provides the resources needed to better understand client’s needs, attract a higher caliber of candidates and assess candidate potential.
We have partnered with a dynamic construction company located in Woodland Hills. The accounting team is seeking to add a Payroll Accountant Assistant who will play a crucial role in supporting the payroll & accounting team.
Responsibilities:
- Process weekly or biweekly payrolls, including garnishments, benefits and taxes to consistent with federal and state wage and hour laws
- Ensures the processing of new hires, temporary workers, transfers, promotions and terminations is accurate and timely;
- Prepares and audits W-4s, payroll balance sheets, YTD earnings, etc.
- Manages regular preparation of relevant management reports, including weekly, monthly, quarterly and year-end reports (gross payroll, hours worked, vacation accrual, tax deductions, benefits deductions, etc.)
- Reconcile banks
- Maintains employee benefits programs
- Ensures legal compliance by monitoring and implementing applicable human resource federal and state requirements
- Completes human resource operational requirements
- Administers benefits programs
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree preferred
- 2+ years’ experience of payroll processing
- Working knowledge of Word, Excel and payroll systems
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What We Do
GHJ is an accounting and advisory firm that specializes in nonprofit, food and beverage, entertainment and media and health and wellness companies. Previous recipient of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Employee Champion For Life Work Harmony Award and named a “Best Places to Work” by the Los Angeles Business Journal eight times since 2008, GHJ is passionate about helping clients and its people #BeMore by focusing on building thriving businesses and creating a better future.
GHJ works as a business advocate for its clients — providing personalized service and building long-term relationships to help position our clients for growth. Through its affiliation with HLB International, a global network of independent professional accounting firms and business advisers, GHJ is able to partner with other top firms across major cities throughout the U.S. and the world. GHJ’s audit, tax and advisory teams leverage the HLB network to better serve its clients and give clients access to member firms in over 158 countries across the globe and over 775 offices worldwide.
Also ranked as a top-20 largest accounting firm on the Los Angeles Business Journal’s Book of Lists, GHJ has 15 partners and more than 160 staff members that serve over 3,000 clients. GHJ is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the AICPA Governmental Audit Quality Center (GAQC), the California Society of CPAs and the California Association of Nonprofits (CalNonprofit).
