Senior Associate, Payroll

<p><strong>Payroll Specialist, United States Payroll</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>A Career with Point72’s Finance Team </strong></p> <p> </p> <p>The Finance team provides a broad range of timely, accurate, relevant, and objective financial information, advice, and services to its business partners, with commitment to the highest professional and ethical standards. Our team offers a dynamic and collaborative environment where our colleagues can learn at a fast pace and are rewarded with advanced opportunities both within Finance and across the firm.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>What you’ll do </strong></p> <p> </p> <p>We are seeking a Payroll Specialist for the U.S. Payroll who will have direct ownership of hands-on payroll processing in addition to providing subject matter expertise and oversight. Specifically, you will:</p> <ul> <li>Own end-to-end U.S. payroll processing with minimal supervision, including data gathering, validation, review, and final sign-off</li> <li>Lead complex payroll activities such as multi-state tax calculations, W-2 testing and reconciliation, 401(k) processing, salary variance analysis, and retroactive adjustments</li> <li>Serve as the U.S. payroll subject matter expert, providing guidance on federal, state, and local tax matters and ensuring compliance and accuracy</li> <li>Independently prepare, review, and post payroll journal entries, including accruals, reversals, and adjustments</li> <li>Act as the primary point of contact for payroll escalations, employee inquiries, client questions, and external vendor coordination</li> <li>Partner with Human Resources (HR), Finance, Tax, and Benefits teams to resolve payroll issues, support audits, and manage cross-functional dependencies</li> <li>Review payroll outputs for quality and compliance, proactively identifying, investigating, and remediating discrepancies</li> <li>Drive payroll process improvements, automation, system enhancements, and transitions using tools such as Excel, Workday, and other reporting/automation solutions, while mentoring junior team members as needed</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>What’s required? </strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s degree or equivalent</li> <li>8+ years of finance, accounting, and/or U.S. payroll experience</li> <li>Strong hands-on expertise in state and local tax calculations and compliance, W-2 testing, year-end reconciliation, and corrections, 401(k) and benefits-related payroll processing, and salary variance analysis, reconciliations, and exception handling</li> <li>Advanced MS Excel proficiency, including VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP, COUNTIFS and SUMIFS, and nested IFs and complex reconciliation logic</li> <li>Deep understanding of US federal, state, and other jurisdictional payroll taxes</li> <li>Advanced experience with payroll-related journal entries, accruals, and financial reconciliations</li> <li>Proven ability to independently collect, validate, and review payroll data</li> <li>Experience managing payroll for foreign or global clients or working within a global service delivery model</li> <li>Excellent attention to detail with a process-oriented approach to payroll compensation for some of the top leading professionals in the industry</li> <li>The ability to efficiently analyze sizeable amounts of data and work with the Technology team to identify opportunities where improvement is essential</li> <li>The ability to excel in a dynamic, fast paced environment and work effectively under pressure.</li> <li>A willingness to manage change and build working relationships with our clients within Finance and throughout the firm</li> <li>Strong verbal and written communication skills (English language verbal and writing skills)</li> <li>Excellent organizational skills to meet deadlines and manage multiple priorities</li> <li>Commitment to the highest ethical standards</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>ABOUT POINT72 </strong></p> <p>Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm led by Steven A. Cohen. Building o ... (truncated, view full listing at source)