Payroll Supervisor

About the role

At Interfor, payroll is more than processing pay accurately and on time, it's about supporting employees and enabling business success. As Payroll Supervisor, you'll lead a geographically diverse team, oversee large-scale U.S. payroll operations, and contribute to key payroll systems, process improvement, and operational excellence initiatives. This is a unique opportunity for a payroll leader who enjoys developing people, solving complex challenges, and driving operational excellence in a collaborative, growth-oriented environment.

Responsibilities

• Payroll Leadership: Oversee accurate and timely processing of hourly and salaried U.S. payrolls, including regular and off-cycle payments, deductions, taxes, reconciliations, and year-end activities.
• Team Development: Lead and develop a distributed payroll team through clear goals, coaching, cross-training, workload planning, succession planning, and accountability.
• Compliance Oversight: Maintain compliance with federal, state, and local payroll requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
• Systems & Process Improvement: Partner with stakeholders to support payroll configuration, testing, controls, data integrity, and ongoing payroll system enhancements and initiatives.
• Stakeholder Support: Collaborate with HR Operations, Benefits, Finance, Learning & Development, and operational leaders to resolve issues and improve payroll service.
• Process Improvement: Strengthen payroll controls, documentation, SOPs, audit readiness, business continuity, and consistent practices across U.S. locations.

Requirements

• Payroll Expertise: At least 5 years of progressive, dedicated U.S. payroll experience, including high-volume payroll and strong year-end knowledge.
• People Leadership: At least 1-2 years of supervisory or team leadership experience, with demonstrated success developing employees and leading across locations or time zones.
• Multi-State Compliance: Strong knowledge of U.S. federal, state, and local payroll laws, with experience supporting multi-jurisdiction payroll.
• Systems Experience: Experience with a large-scale payroll or ERP platform is required.

Skills

• Advanced Excel skills are required; Experience supporting payroll systems, process improvements, compliance initiatives, organizational change, and CPP certification are considered assets.

Benefits

• Short-Term Incentive Bonus
• 3 weeks vacation to start
• 401(k) matching
• Employee Share Purchase Program matching
• Extended Health & Dental