University of Arizona- SIROW (Southwest Institute for Research on Women)

Accountant

• Play a critical role in payroll, tax compliance, and financial reporting excellence
• The Senior Accountant must be detail-oriented and highly experienced with deep expertise in payroll accounting and tax compliance
• Responsible for managing complex payroll processes, ensuring accurate tax reporting, and supporting month-end close and financial reporting activities
• Oversee bi-weekly multi-state, multi-entity payroll processing for salaried, hourly, and academic employees (faculty, adjuncts, and staff)
• Ensure accurate recording of payroll, tax, benefits, bonuses, and related accruals
• Reconcile payroll accounts, benefits, and payroll liabilities on a per pay period basis
• Serve as the primary point of contact for payroll questions, external partners, and internal HR and accounting teams
• Maintain and improve payroll controls, processes, and documentation
• Manage federal, state, and local payroll tax compliance, accounts, filings, and payments
• Review quarterly and annual payroll tax filings (e.g., 941, 940, W-2, W-3)
• Support sales and use tax, property tax, and other indirect tax filings as applicable
• Coordinate with external tax advisors on income tax provisions, audits, and notices
• Monitor changes in tax laws and ensure ongoing compliance
• Participate in month-end and year-end close, including journal entries, reconciliations, and variance analysis
• Prepare and review balance sheet account reconciliations
• Support financial statement preparation and audit requests
• Assist with internal and external audits, including payroll and tax-related items
• Identify opportunities to automate and streamline payroll and tax processes
• Strengthen internal controls and ensure compliance with company policies and institutional guidelines
• Mentor junior accounting staff and provide technical guidance as needed
• Partner cross-functionally with HR, Division, and Finance leadership

Senior Accountant

Digital Marketing

• The Digital Marketing Specialist is responsible for growing the SDI brand through data-driven strategies.
• A successful Digital Marketing Specialist will have great impact by assisting with both content production and strategy.
• Using tracking systems, industry trends, and multi-channel media, this team member will advance SDI’s brand, increasing audience, leads, students, and graduates.
• By fully immersing in data and market analysis, the Digital Marketing Specialist will be able to help implement tests, projects, and initiatives that will find more effective ways to market SDI.
• The Digital Marketing Specialist will work closely with the Compliance team to produce content that both advances the school’s brand and adheres to the guidelines that keep our school safe.
• The Digital Marketing Specialist will also be responsible for vendor and project management, as well as maintenance of systems and data.
• Social Media: in collaboration with other Marketing team members, strategize and produce constant interactive and organic presence and messaging within SDI’s social media strategy goals, specifically for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube, Instagram, and other emerging digital media.
• Email Marketing: test, track, and analyze the successes and failures of multi-tier email marketing systems and strategies.
• Work with other Marketing team members as well as other SDI team members across departments to positively impact email open rates, conversion results, and other key metrics.
• Website: Analyze and track trends, proactively find opportunities and threats in relation to website traffic, SEO, site content, and page ranking, including A/B testing as needed.
• Collaborate with vendors as necessary to trial and produce tests and new strategies.
• Content Marketing: Working with other Marketing team members, come up with creative content ideas for--and then help produce—items like blog posts, press releases, videos, and more as directed by the VP of Growth and Marketing.
• Internal Communications: Collect and produce content for the SDI Internal Newsletter, both to increase team-wide communication and to bolster inter-departmental excitement about what the team is accomplishing each month.
• Share out data with key players. Look for additional ways to increase communication with and to other SDI departments.
• Web Reputation Management: seek out ways to improve SDI’s web reputation by creating and implementing strategies regarding obtaining and utilizing positive reviews, refreshing business profiles, and more.
• Actively search for creative, new, and better ways to promote and advance the school.
• Responsible for deliverable lead data and ROI on budgeted campaigns.
• Using existing and emerging data solutions and systems, produce weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual data regarding lead generation, lead sources, conversion success, content trends, website traffic data, and more.
• Expose vulnerabilities and opportunities using data, and work with other SDI team members to find new and better ways to collect, report, and analyze data.
• Implement, optimize, and maintain marketing software systems and platforms, working with digital marketing vendors as needed.
• In some cases, serve as project manager for related integration and on-boarding/off-boarding projects. Other tasks as assigned