Specific Responsibilities
The Payroll Advisor for Apache Corporation will be a member of Apache’s Human Resources - HRIS & Payroll team at the company’s Houston office reporting to the Payroll Manager. The Payroll Advisor is responsible for supporting global payroll processes. They ensure accurate and timely processing of employee salaries, benefits, and deductions. The Payroll Advisor stays updated on payroll laws and regulations, resolves complex payroll-related issues, and provides guidance to employees on payroll matters. They will also assist with payroll reporting, audits, and compliance with tax laws. Strong attention to detail, analytical skills, and knowledge of payroll systems and software are essential for this role.
This role will be primarily responsible for the following:
- Support the production of accurate end-to-end payroll processing for all US, UK and expatriate employees, including calculations for salary, overtime, deductions, taxes, and net pay. Audit, reconcile and balance payroll results.
- Reconcile and prepare quarterly and year-end payroll wage and tax filings timely and accurately, including the production of employee year-end tax forms.
- Analyze, reconcile and monitor global payroll and designated benefit accounts in the general ledger, including expatriate expenses, billable employee expenses and corporate expenses. Research and resolve discrepancies.
- Evaluate numerous imputed and non-cash income details for the accurate recording of employee income and taxes. This includes relocation expenses, expatriate expenses paid in home and host countries, employee use of company vehicles, safety awards, etc.
- Reconcile and/or process income and taxes related to non-qualified stock options, share appreciation plans, deferred delivery plans, restricted stock plans and deferred dividend plans as needed.
- Evaluate and prioritize information requests from internal and external customers. Determine the best method for producing and delivering payroll related financial reports on a periodic and on demand basis. Ensure the integrity of payroll data.
- Collaborate and build partnerships with Human Resources, Accounting, Internal Audit, Information Technology, Tax, Treasury, EH&S, Corporate Communications and other departments to seamlessly integrate payroll and employee data.
- Support preparation of audits and control testing by Internal Audit, Sarbanes-Oxley staff, and outside auditors.
- Assist with addressing payroll related inquiries and providing document copies as required.
- Participate in the development, testing, and maintenance of the payroll system and its interfaces to transfer payroll and related data between SAP, other applications and third-party business partners.
- Evaluate, test and implement recommended changes in the automation of work processes and procedures to meet changing requirements, increase efficiency and fully utilize payroll related systems.
Qualifications & Experience
The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and experience:
- Minimum associate’s degree with college-level course work in Accounting
- 10+ years of payroll experience leading in the processing of multi-state payroll for 1,500+ employees
- Ability to manage multiple processes and priorities, be flexible and meet deadlines
- Ability to evaluate information, resolve problems, and communicate results
- Ability to manage multiple processes and priorities
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Excellent organizational skills
- Established customer services skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Proficiency in Word and Excel
- Availability to work occasional overtime
- SAP and/or SuccessFactors preferred
- In-depth knowledge of US payroll processes and labor and payroll tax compliance laws
- Strong understanding of accounting principles and practices related to payroll and the ability to reconcile payroll with financial records
- Good organizational and time management skills to meet strict payroll deadlines and manage multiple priorities
Competencies
The successful candidate should demonstrate and exhibit the following core competencies:
- Communication: Writes, speaks, and presents information effectively and persuasively across communication setting;
- Results: Pursues work with energy, drive, and results orientation to positively impact Apache's business success;
- Collaboration: Works in partnership with others and encourages different perspectives, while building and maintaining trust; and
- Culture: Willingness and ability to align one's behavior with the needs, priorities, and goals of Apache.
Company Overview
Our primary product is energy, and where there is affordable, abundant energy, people are healthier, have access to better education, and are given greater opportunities to elevate their families to higher standards of living.
Nearly 3 billion people — roughly one-third of the global population — live without electricity or without clean cooking facilities. We are committed to providing energy in innovative and more sustainable ways to help raise the standard of living for those living in energy poverty and to meet the ongoing demands of people and economies around the world.
The products we deliver power increasingly cleaner electricity across the globe, fuel tractors and trucks, make fertilizer to keep the world's food supply on the table, and heat our schools, hospitals and businesses.
Our employees bring a wide range of talents and skills to the job every day to tackle complex business challenges. We believe in providing a truly rewarding work environment supported by a benefits platform that ranks among the best in our peer group. Our company offers career development opportunities where employees can grow personally and professionally. We promote employee benefits that cultivate a family-friendly work environment and focus on our employees' overall well-being.
We are committed to being a workplace where all employees are valued and can thrive with a sense of belonging. Our commitment to non-discriminatory, equal employment opportunities benefits our individual employees, our company and our external stakeholders; we are better as an organization when various experiences, ideas, and perspectives are brought to the table.
Apache Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of APA Corporation (NASDAQ:APA). Apache has operations in the United States, Egypt's Western Desert and the United Kingdom's North Sea and a sister company with exploration opportunities offshore Suriname. Whether supporting Apache, APA Corporation or one of its subsidiaries, team members are employed by Apache Corporation.
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Apache Statement on Hiring
To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to base all employment-related decisions and actions exclusively on employment-related criteria. To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to provide broad dissemination of job opportunities, as consistent with the nature of the positions. To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to review its employment-related policies and actions on a regular basis to ensure that their application is consistent with their intent.