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Colorado State University

Payroll Accountant

🇺🇸 Hybrid - Fort Collins, CO

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $60K - $65K

💻 Finance

🗓️ July 4th, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

Colorado State University is hiring a Payroll Accountant. The role involves ensuring timely and accurate payroll processing, managing timekeeping, assisting with pension payments, tax withholding and remittance, auditing, and maintaining compliance within the HR system. The position also supports out-of-cycle payments, overpayments, W-2 reporting, and collaborates with various departments and external agencies.

Highlights
  • Ensure accurate payroll processing and monitor timekeeping systems.
  • Manage pension payments, deductions, and annual audits.
  • Assist with state, federal, and local tax withholding and remittance, including unemployment and workers compensation reporting.
  • Maintain and develop HR system processes related to payments, taxes, pensions, and compliance.
  • Handle out-of-cycle payments, payment stops, overpayments, W-2 and taxable fringe benefits reporting.
  • Perform audit preparation, cash reconciliations, and manage overpayment receivables.
  • Coordinate and test HR system updates, patches, and tax table changes.
  • Provide team support, training, and act as a subject matter expert on payroll protocols.
  • Required qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Accounting or equivalent experience, intermediate payroll/accounting experience, strong organizational, analytical, and communication skills.
  • Compensation range: $60,000-$65,000 annually with benefits package offered.