Senior Accountant

Wage Works enables millions of people to save money on critical expenses like healthcare, dependent care, and commuting, through Consumer-Directed Benefits, such as Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) and Commuter Benefits. Wage Works is a leader in the industry serving more than 6.5 million people for over 100,000 employers, including 63% of the Fortune 500 and numerous public sector clients.

Wage Works believes that our success is achieved by its People. Values describe how we work together to achieve our success. It is our employees that drive results through living our Company Values. Every employee at Wage Works is expected to uphold and demonstrate the six Company Values listed below as an additional component of the job description and as a standard of individual performance.

Customer-Centric: Our Customer comes first. We aim to serve our Clients and their employees, our brokers and partners, as well as our internal customers.

Caring: People are at the heart of our company. We care about people: our Clients, our Clients’ employees and their families, our partners, and local communities, and our fellow employees at Wage Works.

Passionate: We love what we do and are passionate about delivering Consumer-Directed Benefits that save people money and enrich their lives.

Accountable: We are dedicated to making our team and the company succeed, and we are open, honest, ethical and conscientious, as we deliver on our commitments.

Leading: Our actions inspire new ideas and drive change each and every day.

Respectful: We value the diversity of our people, treat them with dignity and respect, encourage their development and reward their performance.

Why Work for Wage Works?

If you're looking for a career that provides plenty of growth opportunities, responsibility, and interesting challenges to tackle, you will find it here.

If you want to join a fast-moving, high-growth, exciting company that's a market leader, you’re looking in the right place.

But mostly, if you want to help people live happier, healthier, and more productive lives, then you’ll want to work for Wage Works.

Wage Works provides equal employment opportunity without regard to pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, race, religious creed, color, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, mental or physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), medical condition, veteran or military status, marital or registered domestic partnership status, age, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

Employment will require successful completion of a background check.

Equal Opportunity for Disabled Veterans, Recently Separated Veterans, Other Armed Forces Service Medal Veterans.

Drug free workplace.

POSITION TITLE

Senior Accountant

OVERVIEW AND REPORTING RELATIONSHIP

With general direction and latitude for independent judgment and discretion, this position performs professional level general accounting duties to maintain and administer the Company’s general ledger. Additionally, this position provides leadership and guidance to less experienced accounting staff.

REPORTING STRUCTURE & WORK SETTING

This position typically performs work in a centralized, corporate environment and reports to a Manager in Accounting with responsibility for the General Ledger but may assist the Assistant Controller or Controller on special projects.

OTHER REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES

• On an ongoing basis and with an excellent understanding of proper accounting practices and controls, this position supports the maintenance of the general ledger by ensuring proper and timely entering and recording of financial transactions in the general ledger in accordance with GAAP and Company policies.
• Reviews accounts payable batches for accuracy, proper approval and account coding following Company standard practices and generally accepted accounting practices.
• With a solid understanding of accounting practices and controls, develops and enforces proper accounting processes and procedures for practice within the department and Company. This includes developing and maintaining desktop procedures and manuals.
• On an on-going basis, participates in the month-end close processes by performing activities that include but are not limited to preparing, reviewing and posting journal entries.
• Provides technical guidance to the Accounts Payable team and other less experienced accountants. This includes responding to the account payable staff and less experienced accountants as needed to resolve accounting issues.
• Proactively pursues business issues that impact the general ledger and evaluates the situation for acceptable solutions. Proposes resolution to management and other affected areas/departments. Incumbents may coordinate solutions of various scope and complexity with internal and external groups.
• Assists with ongoing account…