Payroll Manager

Responsibilities

• Oversee payroll processing and operations for multiple locations, ensuring accurate and timely pay.
• Ensure strict and consistent compliance to labor laws, tax withholdings, wage orders, garnishments and year-end reporting.
• Set up and maintain functional payroll systems (Paylocity/UKG).
• Audit payroll transactions to ensure all amounts and payment dates are accurate.
• Reconcile and prepare reports for ledgers, journal entries, 5500s, overtime usage, retirement, attrition etc.
• Lead processing, accuracy and distribution of W-2 statements.
• Approve one-time or permanent changes in payroll (e.g. salary increases, tax deduction, bonuses).
• Approve all employee changes from the self-service portal.
• Train employees who are involved in payroll on best practices.
• Manage payroll discrepancies quickly and efficiently.
• Collaborate with Finance and HR to create payroll reports.
• Create and maintain all cost centers, allocations and new location codes.
• Monitor and audit payroll for fraud, abuse and waste.
• Prepare onboarding material to enable new hires and add union codes, exempt status and benefit hours, payroll policy, CID and Respite codes.
• Help new hires understand the company’s compensation and benefits policies (Orientation).
• Coordinate external audits (Work Comp. and 403B, 5500).
• Answer payroll-related questions from employees and supervisors.
• Maintain records for insurance and benefit partners (Employees contributions, loans and employer contributions).
• Maintain system updates

Qualifications

• A minimum of 10 years of payroll experience
• At least five years in payroll management
• Must be a CPP (Certified Payroll Professional)
• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in accounting or business administration

Pay

$85,000 - $95,000