The Payroll Manager is responsible for the accurate, timely, and compliant execution payroll operations, including regular and off-cycle payrolls. This role owns the day-to-day processing, review, reconciliation, and operational oversight of payroll, ensuring a consistent and reliable employee pay experience. Also, this position is remote with strong preference .
Responsibilities:
- Own end‑to‑end delivery of bi‑weekly payrolls, including regular and off‑cycle runs for corrections, terminations, bonuses, commissions, retro pay, equity, and special earnings.
- Review, validate, and approve payrolls to ensure accurate earnings, deductions, taxes, garnishments, funding, and net pay.
- Resolve complex payroll scenarios, including mid‑period changes, leave management, partial periods, and multi‑state or cross‑border arrangements.
- Oversee payroll funding, journal entries, general ledger postings, and payroll reconciliations to ensure financial accuracy and compliance.
- Serve as the primary escalation point for complex payroll issues, driving resolution, corrections, and root‑cause analysis.
- Execute and maintain payroll controls, including pre‑ and post‑payroll audits, validations, and reconciliations, while ensuring data integrity across HRIS, timekeeping, benefits, commission, and payroll systems.
- Support internal and external audits by preparing documentation, responding to inquiries, and implementing corrective actions.
- Act as the payroll tax subject matter expert for multi‑state, local, and payroll taxes, including withholding, reconciliation, funding, corrections, and adjustments.
- Manage complex tax scenarios and regulatory changes, coordinating with vendors, tax authorities, and leadership to ensure compliant execution.
- Identify recurring issues, inefficiencies, and operational risk, driving process improvements, automation, and system controls to increase accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.
- Partner with leadership and vendors to implement approved system enhancements, reporting, validations, and process improvements.
- Provide daily operational oversight, technical guidance, quality review, and support cross‑training, documentation, and standard work practices to ensure continuity and consistency of payroll operations.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, or a related field, or equivalent hands‑on payroll experience.
- Proven experience as a payroll tax subject matter expert, with responsibility for multi‑state U.S. payroll taxation and payroll tax operations.
- Demonstrated expertise managing complex payroll tax scenarios, including reciprocal agreements, multi‑state work arrangements, tax registrations, corrections, and amendments.
- Experience supporting payroll tax audits, inquiries, and assessments, partnering with payroll vendors, tax authorities, and internal stakeholders.
- Significant hands‑on experience processing complex, multi‑state U.S. payrolls; payroll experience strongly preferred.Strong working knowledge of payroll systems (e.g., ADP), time and attendance platforms, and payroll accounting processes.
- Proven ability to execute payroll controls, reconciliations, and audit‑ready operational processes.
- Detail‑oriented and disciplined, with the ability to operate effectively in a regulated, highly controlled environment.
- Able to balance accurate payroll execution with continuous improvement, efficiency, and operational excellence.
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