Sr Mgr Payroll Processing

Purpose: The Senior Manager, Payroll US & Canada is to manage day-to-day hourly and salary payroll processing for a broadly dispersed, high turn-over, dynamic organization with over 30,000 weekly and bi-weekly paid employees. This position ensures that payroll procedures and target dates are executed in an accurate, compliant, and timely manner.

Essential Functions:
•    Manages the Payroll team in preparation and processing of the hourly and salaried payrolls in the US & Canada, while coordinating the workflow through the department up through preparation and distribution of paychecks, tax filings and payments, deductions, and garnishments
•    Leads and develops a knowledgeable payroll team to work effectively, while ensuring confidentiality, accuracy, effective controls, and timeliness for payroll related documentation
•    Develops internal procedures and controls to ensure compliance with regulatory and corporate audit controls
•    Monitors and evaluates payroll system updates, with particular focus on system testing to ensure accurate and timely processing
•    Maintains payroll data (earnings and deduction codes) and tax data (rates and jurisdictions) in PeopleSoft
•    Serves as the Payroll subject matter expert and in the PeopleSoft HCM, including entering environment change requests and performing timely validation of test results prior to changes being put into production
•    Sets guidelines for Payroll team, determines payroll schedule, timelines/deadlines for HR and managers to provide information to payroll for processing; maintain continuous level of engagement between team, plant HR resources and PeopleSoft HRIS
•    Conducts various payroll audits to ensure accuracy and quality control; work with auditors as required
•    Aids the General Accounting function in reconciliation of payroll bank and general ledger accounts
•    Participate in company’s future transitions of PeopleSoft to SuccessFactors HCM, payroll engine, and time and attendance system
•    Actively participates and lends technical expertise in the selection, establishment, implementation, and transition to a new Payroll Management system

Reporting Relationship: The Senior Manager, Payroll reports directly to the Director of Payroll

Minimum Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, and Work Environment: 
•    Education and Experience: The combination of education and professional experience must exceed 6 years:
 - In a leadership role: Requires 2 years of experience supervising a team of professionals engaged in executing payroll programs.
 - In a technical role: Requires 6-8 years of payroll management experience engaged in developing and delivering payroll programs
 - A bachelor’s degree in a program related to the functional area can count for 3 of the 6-year requirement
 - An MBA or a master’s level degree in a program related to the functional area can count for an additional 2 years of 6-year requirement 
 - In the industry: 3-5 years of Hospitality, F&B and/or Retail experience preferred
 - Basic understanding of managing payroll with tipped employee base
 - FPC or CPP certification strongly desired
 - Experience processing automated payrolls, with specific experience processing payroll for a company with over 10,000 employees

Specialized Training: 
 - Knowledge of state, local, and federal tax regulations, as well as wage and hour regulations and laws
 - Knowledge of Canadian federal and provincial laws and regulations

Specialized Skillset/Competencies/Traits
 - Knowledge of ADP, Dayforce(Ceridian), and SuccessFactors HCM preferred
 - Preferred experience with payroll systems implementation and transformation  
 - Demonstrated working knowledge of PeopleSoft payroll preferred 
 - Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel
 - Business acumen and also has the mindset required to understand the long-term implications of Functional planning and to advance the organizations goals
 - Demonstrated history of understanding the needs of the business, stakeholders, the employee population and individual circumstances
 - Demonstrated history of creating and maintaining positive work environments through coaching, developing, and leading teams to achieve common goals

Location: This position is based at the F&B Center of Excellence in Bethesda, MD
 

Disclaimer:
All job requirements are subject to change to reflect the evolving position requirements or to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a threat or risk to the health and safety of themselves or other employees. This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to which will be required in this position. Employees will be required to follow other job-related duties as requested by their supervisor/manager (within guidelines and compliance with Federal and State Laws). Continued employment remains on an "at-will" basis.

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