Payroll Accountant

Job Description
Location: Greater Noida(on-site)
Experience: 8+years
Role Overview
We are looking for a Chartered Accountant with around 8–12 years of experience in financial accounting, controllership, R2R, or payroll accounting. The role will be responsible for ensuring accurate accounting, reconciliation, reporting, and compliance of payroll-related transactions. Candidates with direct payroll accounting experience are preferred. However, candidates with strong accounting fundamentals, GL, month-end close, reconciliations, and compliance experience who are willing to work in payroll accounting can also be considered.
Key Responsibilities
• Manage payroll accounting and employee cost accounting, including salary, bonus, incentives, and other compensation costs.
• Review and post payroll-related journal entries into the General Ledger.
• Handle payroll provisions, accruals, true-ups, and month-end/year-end closing activities.
• Perform reconciliation of payroll records with GL, bank payments, and balance sheet accounts.
• Ensure correct accounting and reconciliation of statutory liabilities such as PF, ESI, TDS, Professional Tax, Gratuity, and other employee-related obligations.
• Investigate payroll accounting variances and ensure timely resolution of discrepancies.
• Support internal, statutory, and financial audits related to payroll and employee costs.
• Ensure adherence to financial controls, accounting policies, and statutory compliance requirements.
• Coordinate closely with Payroll, HR, Finance, Treasury, Tax, and other relevant teams.
• Drive process improvements and strengthen controls around payroll accounting and reconciliations.
Experience & Qualification
• Chartered Accountant (CA)
• Around 8–12 years of relevant experience
• Strong experience in Financial Accounting / R2R / GL / Controllership / Payroll Accounting
• Good understanding of month-end close, journal entries, provisions, reconciliations, and compliance
• Exposure to payroll accounting and statutory compliance will be preferred but is not mandatory
• Candidates without direct payroll accounting experience should have strong core accounting knowledge and willingness to transition into payroll accounting
• Good stakeholder management, analytical, and problem-solving skills
For more insights, connect with SANJANA MEHRA
Email id: sanjana.mehra@coforge.com

Work arrangement
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