Payroll Accountant

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p style="line-height: 1.4;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Who we are</strong></span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">DigiCert is a global leader in intelligent trust. We protect the digital world by ensuring the security, privacy, and authenticity of every interaction. Our AI-powered DigiCert ONE platform unifies PKI, DNS, and certificate lifecycle management, to secure infrastructure, software, devices, messages, AI content and agents. Learn why more than 100,000 organizations, including 90% of the Fortune 500, choose DigiCert to stop today’s threats and prepare for a quantum-safe future at <a href="http://www.digicert.com/">www.digicert.com</a></span></p></div><p style="line-height: 1.4;"> </p> <p style="line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Job summary</strong></span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As Payroll Accountant you will be responsible for capture and analysis of payroll related transactions across multiple entities. These entities can include global subsidiaries incorporated in the UK, Ireland, Spain, Switzerland, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Canada, China, Germany, Latvia, Sweden, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, Bermuda, Japan and Australia. You would also be responsible for monthly reconciliations of liability accounts that are necessary to ensure the integrity of the balance sheet. You will work with different team members around the globe and will meet with these individuals regularly, requiring flexible hours.</span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.4;"> </p> <p style="line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What you will do</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Prepare payroll processing input and review processing output from payroll vendors for a variety of international entities</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Prepare monthly payroll entries and complete other month-end close activities for a variety of international entities</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Perform monthly reconciliations for liability accounts</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Perform routine income statement reconciliations to year-to-date payroll reports to identify any errors in payroll journals</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Provide explanations for monthly variances on specific liability and expense accounts</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Contribute to and improve account reconciliations</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Coordinate payroll requests with and prepare documentation for external auditors (both domestic and international)</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Work independently to answer questions from other finance professionals within the business</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Investigating and resolving audit findings, account discrepancies, and issues of non-compliance</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Performing other accounting and payroll duties and supporting as required</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assist on finance improvement projects as required</span></li> </ul> <p style="line-height: 1.4;"> </p> <p style="line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What you will have</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica,…