About the Position
We’re looking for a Payroll Accountant to help our Payroll Financial Reporting team with the accounting of payroll transactions for Jane Street’s multiple legal entities worldwide. Your attention to detail, along with your strong organizational and time management skills, will help you succeed in the role.
On any given day, your work could include:
- Preparing monthly payroll journal entries for all locations
- Performing monthly variance analysis on compensation expenses and balance sheet accounts, and preparing commentary explaining the variances
- Researching discrepancies and account reconciliations related to compensation and benefits
- Establishing and monitoring the implementation and maintenance of accounting control procedures
- Working collaboratively with Financial Reporting teams across our global offices to ensure the compensation expenses on our financial statements are complete and accurate
- Contributing to the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes, including: completing reconciliations, escalating and resolving issues, and meeting all associated deadlines
- Facilitating audits by providing records and documentation to auditors
- Identifying and recommending updates to our payroll accounting software, systems, and procedures
About You
- 5-8 years of relevant professional experience, with a bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, or a related field
- Have an understanding of basic accounting concepts and procedures, including account reconciliation
- A skilled problem solver and strong analytical thinker
- Have a knack for technology and a strong proficiency in Excel
- Organized with a keen attention to detail
- Mature, trustworthy, and discreet, with an appreciation for the importance of confidentiality in this role
- Experience with payroll-related disclosures required by foreign statutory audits is a plus
- VBA skills are a plus
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Top Skills
What We Do
Jane Street works differently. As a liquidity provider and market maker, we trade on more than 200 trading venues across 45 countries and help form the backbone of global markets. Our approach is rooted in technology and rigorous quantitative analysis, but our success is driven by our people.
Our bright, beautiful offices in the heart of New York, London, Hong Kong, and Amsterdam are open and buzzing with conversation. We come from many backgrounds and encourage travel between offices to share perspectives. Some of our best ideas come from bumping into a visiting colleague at the office coffee bar.
Markets move fast. Staying competitive as we’ve grown has required constant invention—of new trading strategies, technology, and processes. We’ve found this is easier when you hire humble, kind people. They tend to help each other, and prioritize teamwork over titles.
We invest heavily in teaching and training. There’s a library and a classroom in every office, because deepening your understanding of something is considered real work. Guest lectures, classes, and conferences round out the intellectual exchanges that happen every day.
People grow into long careers at Jane Street because there are always new and interesting problems to solve, systems to build, and theories to test. More than twenty years after our founding, it still feels like we’re just getting started.
