Payroll Leader

iStock_000008266083Small[1]The Payroll Manager is the strategic leader of our client’s payroll function which ensures that the financial, accounting, and business services provided meet or exceed expectations. The primary responsibility is to lead a team of associates who provide payroll, business support services, business systems analyses and development, workforce management systems support, payroll tax services, payroll accounting, and related banking services functions. The Payroll Manager liaises and collaborates closely with the client as well as outside vendors and 3rd parties to ensure successful execution of financial strategy by focusing on providing world class payroll services. The position has ultimate accountability for developing and implementing strategies and operating policies, practices and objectives that satisfy the product and services needs of the client for high quality and compliant payroll services at a competitive cost; empower associates and; align with overall strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead payroll team to optimize efficiency and accuracy in processing all forms of coworker compensation and benefit deductions
  • Manage the payroll team in delivering customer service, including responding to inquiries related to payroll from our client, properties, workers and various internal departments
  • Manage and ensure the weekly and biweekly disbursement of multi-state payroll of 150k+ employees for multiple FEINs across all 50 states; ensuring garnishments, benefits and taxes are accurate and consistent with federal and state wage and hour laws. In addition, manage any additional ad hoc payrolls for manual checks and the payments of special bonuses
  • Ensure payroll tax compliance, including tax deposits, filings, and reconciliations to the general ledger are accurate and completed in a timely manner
  • Research discrepancies of payroll information/documentation prior to processing and/or confirming each payroll, to include auditing payroll data for accuracy and reasonableness
  • Collaborate in development, testing, and troubleshooting of all system changes with the client, AO, Finance, IT, etc
  • Implement continuous process improvement to include the adoption of best practices, and updating standard operating procedures accordingly
  • Engage with senior management and be the subject matter expert for payroll and payroll tax-related matters, expatriates, 1099 reporting matters, payroll general ledger mapping/reporting.
  • Develop processes and procedures that will scale with the growth of the client
  • Ensure the proper controls and procedures are in place, documented and followed as well as working with internal audit in testing the effectiveness of the controls
  • Coordinate and collaborate on the processing of equity compensation

Position Requirement

Must reside in or be willing to relocate to the Knoxville, TN area

Basic Qualifications:

  • Minimum of 5 years’ of large employer payroll experience (40K + associates)
  • Minimum of 5 years’ of payroll operations experience
  • Minimum of 2 years’ of experience in a supervisory role

Compensation

Very attractive base compensation, plus bonus

If you are interested in the role, please contact:

Larry Janis, Email: janis@issg.net or Phone:516 767 3030 ext 301