Halliburton US | North America Payroll and Accounting Manager

Key responsibilities

• We are looking for the right people — people who want to innovate, achieve, grow and lead.
• This role is responsible for planning, organizing, and leading the accounting department.
• Under broad direction, responsible for planning, organizing, developing, 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
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• 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.
• 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 and calculation testing.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis, communicate issues and resolution, work to remediate and implement process/system changes to prevent reoccurrence.
• Manage payroll related projects to implement system/policy changes with various teams.
• Manage ticketing system with Vendors and Internal to raise and resolve issues, respond to employee questions/issues, etc.
• 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.
• 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

Requirements

• Experience the challenges, rewards and opportunity of working for one of the world’s largest providers of products and services to the global energy industry.
• 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.
• Experience with full cycle payroll processing, gross-to-net calculations, different types of stock transactions and federal, state, and local taxes.
• 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.
• Experience with ADP GlobalView (or enterprise-level payroll system) and SmartCompliance in a large enterprise payroll environment.
• Workforce Software time system experience.
• Strong knowledge of fundamental time and payroll regulations.
• Experience Level: Experienced Hire

Halliburton US

Halliburton US is an employer hiring in India. In its own words: "Halliburton delivers advanced products and services to meet the evolving needs of the global energy industry, driving innovation, reliability, and performance."

Its finance, accounts, audit and tax openings in India are mostly in Houston and Texas.