Annual Salary Range: $72,196.80 - $111,924.80
First Review of Applications: January 27, 2025
Expected Start Date:
February/March 2025
Description
Overview of Accounting and Finance Department
SANDAG has great pride in being a fiscally responsible public agency and has implemented rigorous accounting processes and financial reporting procedures to monitor expenses, encumbrances, grant funds, and project budgets, and accurately document various types of financial transactions. The agency has been awarded the Government Finance Officers Association’s (GFOA) Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting for its Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) for the past fourteen years.
The department supports the day-to-day business operations of SANDAG through a team organized into two functional areas: Accounting & Finance and Revenue & Project Control. As part of the Accounting & Finance group, this position supports payroll duties, and the department has a role in supporting all agency programs. The team is highly regarded for their ability to maintain an exceptional level of accuracy and for providing outstanding customer service.
Role
The Limited Term Payroll Accountant will be a reliable individual who is detail-oriented, organized, demonstrates initiative, and has the flexibility to meet changing priorities and workload demands. Excellent communication, customer service skills, and the ability to utilize sound judgment when working with vendors, other agencies, and employees are essential to this position. This position will perform complex administrative duties and will be responsible for preparing and processing bi-weekly payroll, auditing payroll reports, processing tax forms, performing data entry, preparing account reconciliations, setting up voluntary deductions, and resolving payroll issues accounting functions, statistical analyses, and interpretation of information in the preparation and evaluation of fiscal records, transactions, statements, reports, and systems and procedures, particularly those related to payroll functions.
The Payroll Accountant is an integral member of the Payroll team that supports a staff group of approximately 400 employees. This position ensures the timely and accurate processing of bi-weekly payroll for the agency.
This limited term position is funded for 1 year.
Typical Qualifications
- A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university, with major course work in finance, accounting, or a related field. A master’s degree is desirable. A combination of education and recent work experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- A minimum of three years of increasingly responsible, recent payroll experience.
- Demonstrated experience performing payroll duties for a mid-sized organization including processing payroll, auditing payroll reports, processing tax forms, and setting up voluntary deductions; experience using software for the processing of payroll including data entry, analysis, and report generation and generally accepted accounting principles. Experience with defined benefit plans, specifically, California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) is desirable.
- A working knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite (particularly Word, Excel, and Access), experience with Ceridian/Dayforce, ONESolution, and Tyler ERP.
- Candidates must pass a pre-employment criminal background check; periodic background checks will be a condition of ongoing employment. The selected candidate also can anticipate a driving record check upon hire, and approximately annually thereafter.
Benefits
SANDAG offers comprehensive benefits, to include health, dental, and vision insurance as well as employee assistance, wellness, and work/life balance programs. Additionally, SANDAG offers the following:
- Hybrid work options
- 9/80 flexible work schedule
- Pay-for-performance merit increases
- Retirement - Defined Benefit Plan with the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS)
- Retirement - 457 Defined Contribution Plan with Voya
- Excellent health insurance options for employees and their eligible dependents
- Free dental and vision insurance for employees and their eligible dependents
- Education Assistance of up to $5,250 a year for regular employees
- Free transit pass for use throughout the San Diego region, bus, Rapid Express, Trolley, and COASTER
- Paid time off including 12 paid holidays, 2 floating holiday days, generous paid time off (PTO) per year, depending on length of service
Call (619) 699-1900 or visit https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/sandag? for information. First review January 27, 2025. EOE.
