Description
Lyft's Accounting team is looking for an experienced Senior Payroll Accountant to join us in Seattle. You'll own core payroll accounting and month-end close work across our US and North American entities, keeping everything accurate, on time, and well controlled.
You'll work closely with our Payroll, FP&A, and broader Accounting teams, and we'll count on you to take ownership of your close tasks and help make our processes better over time. If you enjoy a clean reconciliation and a smooth close, we'd love to meet you.
Responsibilities:
- Own payroll-related journal entries for our US (HQ) and North American international subsidiaries, from preparation through booking.
- Prepare payroll accruals, including monthly payroll, bonus, workers' compensation, PTO, and commissions.
- Complete month-end and quarter-end close activities on schedule, in line with our internal close calendar.
- Reconcile and analyze payroll-related GL accounts in accordance with GAAP and Lyft's accounting policies, and perform flux analysis to explain monthly and quarterly movements.
- Investigate and resolve reconciling items in partnership with FP&A and the Payroll team.
- Build a deep understanding of our pay classes, pay codes, and payroll processing activities so you can connect what happens in payroll to what lands in the GL.
- Keep payroll records organized and audit-ready, and help maintain and strengthen our internal controls.
- Identify opportunities to streamline or automate recurring close work, and help bring them to life.
- Support ad hoc projects as they come up.
Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA is a plus.
- 4+ years of general ledger accounting experience, including 2+ years in payroll accounting.
- Hands-on experience owning month-end close in a fast-paced, multi-entity environment.
- Strong command of GAAP.
- The ability to work independently, stay organized, and hit deadlines without sacrificing accuracy.
- Clear, friendly communication and a collaborative approach with cross-functional partners.
- A deep respect for confidentiality and data integrity.
- Advanced Excel skills (lookups, pivot tables, and clean, reviewable workpapers).
- Experience with finance and payroll systems such as Workday, Oracle, ADP Globalview, or similar.
Benefits:
- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled
- Mental health benefits
- Family building benefits
- Child care and pet benefits
- 401(k) plan with company match to help save for your future
- In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
- Subsidized commuter benefits
- Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership