Payroll/Tax Accountant

Located in North Carolina's third largest city, UNC Greensboro is among the most diverse, learner-centered public research universities in the state, with 18,000 students in eight colleges and schools pursuing more than 150 areas of undergraduate and over 200 areas of graduate study. UNCG continues to be recognized nationally for academic excellence, access, and affordability. UNCG is ranked No. 1 most affordable institution in North Carolina for net cost by the N.Y. Times and No. 1 in North Carolina for social mobility by The Wall Street Journal - helping first-generation and lower-income students find paths to prosperity. Designated an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, UNCG is a community-engaged research institution with a portfolio of more than $67M in research and creative activity. The University's 2,600 staff help create an annual economic impact for the Piedmont Triad region in excess of $1B.

The Payroll/Tax Unit, a part of the Accounting Services Office, provides administration of all UNCG payrolls for approximately 7,500 employees, and subsequent postings and reconciliations of payroll to the Banner Finance general ledger system.

The Payroll Unit is responsible for timely and accurate payments of salary and compensation to faculty, staff, and students, as well as detail reconciliation of numerous funds, reporting and remittance of taxes, garnishments, deductions, and benefits. The unit administers and processes regular monthly payroll cycles as well as multiple adjustment and redistribution payroll cycles in a complex, highly technical relational database requiring hundreds of major tasks, processes, and reviews during the course of a month.

This unit provides guidance to the campus departments and four human resource functional areas to assist in ensuring that labor costs for wages and benefits are expensed to the appropriate financial funds and accounts, with special emphasis on working throughout the payroll processes with the three human resource functions to resolve potential payroll issues prior to the payments being made. In addition, the Payroll unit is responsible for ensuring the University is in full compliance with Internal Revenue Services ( IRS) and Immigration and Naturalization Service ( INS) rules and regulations.

Summary of Key Responsibilities are:

40% -NRA Administration and Consultation
30% - Payroll/ Tax Operations Administration
15% - Tax Compliance Reconciliations
15% - Testing and Projects