Payroll Administrator

About the role

Interested in a career that matters? Are you passionate about payroll operations, continuous improvement, and delivering an exceptional employee experience? Join Novonesis as a Payroll Administrator and play a critical role in ensuring accurate, compliant, and efficient payroll operations across North America. In this role, you will serve as a payroll systems expert, supporting multi-state and multi-country payroll processes while driving system enhancements, leading key payroll projects, and identifying opportunities to improve operational excellence. You'll collaborate with teams across Finance, Human Resources, and Payroll to ensure employees are paid accurately and on time while supporting strategic business initiatives.

As a Payroll Administrator, you will be responsible for maintaining payroll systems, supporting payroll accounting and compliance activities, leading payroll-related initiatives, and driving process improvements. This role combines operational excellence, technical expertise, and project leadership to help ensure payroll accuracy and compliance while supporting organizational growth.

Application deadline: October 9, 2026.

Responsibilities

• Maintain payroll systems and interfaces, including Ceridian Dayforce, Time & Attendance, and HRDE platforms.
• Ensure data accuracy across payroll and connected systems.
• Investigate and resolve payroll issues while providing exceptional support across all organizational levels.
• Serve as the functional expert for payroll accounting, compliance, and payroll-related controls.
• Review system configurations and payroll processes to identify enhancement opportunities and optimize performance.
• Coordinate payroll exception processing, reconciliations, and accounting activities, including SAP-to-payroll reconciliations and variance corrections.
• Lead and support annual payroll projects, including workers' compensation, 401(k), QMS activities, and audits.
• Participate in strategic initiatives such as acquisitions, tax-related projects, and payroll system implementations.
• Safeguard confidential payroll information and maintain strict confidentiality standards.
• Support continuous improvement efforts and operational excellence initiatives across payroll functions.