Manager, Payroll Job Description
Manager, payroll
provides professional advice and assistance to management on payroll and tax policies, procedures and our payroll software and systems.
Manager, Payroll Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective manager, payroll job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included manager, payroll job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Adherence to all relevant payroll, employment, and income tax laws, regulations, and operating guidelines
Corresponding with vendors, customers, and employees
Works in compliance with established procedures/protocols
Exercise judgment within defined procedures and propose appropriate solutions
Responsible for employees W-4 and direct deposit information
Process quarter and year end reports
Data entry of employee salaries, taxes, work hours & PTO
Ensure delivery of paychecks to division managers
Assist employees with questions and concerns
Interact with vendors, different departments & senior management
Manager, Payroll Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Manager, Payroll
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPP, FPC, SPHR, PHR, PCP, CPM, FCP, HR, CPA, SAP
Education for Manager, Payroll
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the manager, payroll job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Education, Business/Administration, Human Resources, Management, Associates, Communication, MBA
Skills for Manager, Payroll
Desired skills for manager, payroll include:
Federal
Payroll and Benefits policies and procedures
Pertinent ADP HR
Various operating systems
SAP
State
State and Federal payroll tax laws and regulations
Payroll related taxes for monthly payroll review and tax filings
Payroll systems
Regulations
Desired experience for manager, payroll includes:
Experience with ADP Workforce and Time and Attendance Interface
Ideal candidate must be goal & detail oriented understand how to deliver good customer service & have the ability to work independent of a supervisor
Review employee changes that are uploaded into the payroll system (salary, benefits, withholdings)
Detailed extensive knowledge of UK payroll legislation
Experience of European payroll legislation
Detailed Experience in payroll-related accounting imperative
Manager, Payroll Examples
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Manager, Payroll Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a manager, payroll. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for manager, payroll
- Updating staff on changes and/or modifications
- Wage attachment (garnishment) process
- Proper set up and tax treatment of compensation and fringe benefits
- Year-end tasks, special runs and adjustments
- Developing challenging personal goals for self and staff and holds all parties (including self) accountable for achieving such goals
- Respond to employee inquiries and serve as liaison between employee and third party providers
- Review and reconcile all relocation related expenses
- Maintain vacation and accrual reports
- Trains employees on time/attendance systems
- Supports and interacts with other departments
Qualifications for manager, payroll
- Experience working with payroll vendors and payroll applications
- Desire to be part of a functional line that is moving to a Global Payroll template
- Can do attitude with a willingness to grow the payroll function
- Experienced working in a high volume, multi-task work environment a plus
- Detail oriented, high level of accuracy and completeness of work, able to detect inconsistencies in data
- Experience complying with audit procedures, tax and accounting practices, company policies and procedures
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Manager, Payroll Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of manager, payroll. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for manager, payroll
- Evaluates employees' job performance and conformance to regulations and recommend appropriate personnel action
- Serve as the functional lead on Oracle payroll systems upgrades
- Utilize PeopleSoft for garnishment processing and payments
- Manage year-end compensation process
- Ensuring employees are correctly coded for legislative compliance (tax compliance)
- Reporting - Supporting internal reporting requirements including month end reports, annual leave
- Payment and reconciliation of monthly variable OT payments as it pertains to additional pay
- Administration and reconciliation of all 401K contributions
- Liaison with management and staff regarding all pay enquiries
- Payment and reconciliation of bonus payments
Qualifications for manager, payroll
- MUST have Union Payroll experience
- Payroll compliance in a SOX environment
- Ability to work either independently or as part of a team
- Ability to meet deadlines with a high sense of urgency
- ADP Enterprise 5.0 and eTime experience required
- Multistate and Union payroll experience required
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of manager, payroll. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for manager, payroll
- Responsibility of date maintenance of personnel data in SAP HR
- Provide prioritization of work assignments and serve as an escalation point for issues
- Define and implement consistent processes across the teams to facilitate open communication channels with operating companies
- Create and utilize metrics to drive performance
- Work with auditors at year-end
- Coordinate with ADP to set up new Wage Types, memo and, accumulators
- Ensure the compliance with legal requirements and company policies by studying existing and new legislation
- Be key contact window of HR for finance related matters
- Handles benefit inquiries and complaints to ensure quick, equitable, courteous resolution
- Process and review of all garnishments, levies and child support orders, including initial review of the notices, verification of the proper garnishment of wages, and remittance of payments to the appropriate governmental agencies
Qualifications for manager, payroll
- Experience with Oracle Payroll is preferred
- Certified Payroll Professional is preferred
- 10+ years as a professional payroll practitioner
- 5-7 years of experience managing a team of payroll professionals
- Superior problem analysis and resolution skills
- Well versed in HRIS systems, timekeeping systems, and any other software necessary to produce reports and or present information to others
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Our company is looking for a manager, payroll. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for manager, payroll
- Develops, recommends and implements department policies/procedures
- Manages, directs, and oversees the work department staff to ensure adherence to quality standards, deadlines, policies, and proper procedures, correcting errors or problems
- Manages integration of newly acquired associates
- Trains and instructs employees in job duties and company policies or arranges for training to be provided
- Manages the day-to-day operations to ensure local service delivery happens as agreed
- Manages the scope of the provider contract and ensures SLAs are met
- Provides day-to-day leadership and coaching to processing staff
- Assists in determining work priorities in accordance with the workload, deadlines and change requests
- Monitors Tier 1 and Tier 2 service delivery
- Provides support to the Service Delivery Director
Qualifications for manager, payroll
- Able to work under limited supervision, come to effective decisions and delegate appropriately
- At least 5+ years payroll processing
- Heavy exposure to payroll taxes
- Payroll software experience is a MUST
- Minimum 3-5 years HRIS systems experience
- Strong Accounting knowledge and understanding of the inter-relationship between the General Ledger and Payroll
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of manager, payroll. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for manager, payroll
- Prepares local operational statistics and submits them to the Service Delivery Director for SLA reporting
- Process monthly and semi-monthly payrolls
- Prepare both routine and ad hoc financial reports and reconciliations/analyses
- Maintain an effective working relationship with Human Resources
- Annually issue 350,000 checks within 190 tax jurisdictions and multiple cost centers
- Identify and solve day-to-day problems, provide support to internal constituencies and recommending/implementing system and process improvements
- Create control checklists
- Handle all vendor management reviews, problems, improvements the implementation of any new system, upgrades or module
- Self starter with initiative who is able to lead and work in a fast-paced and changing environment and is able to handle multiple priorities and deadlines simultaneously
- Able to anticipate and independently solve problems
Qualifications for manager, payroll
- May be required to work more than 8 hours during a workday with one hour lunch period
- Must be available to work occasional overtime and off-hours
- A Bachelors degree is highly desirable
- Experience using ADP
- Must have advanced excel skills and knowledge of Quickbooks
- Strong understanding of payroll deductions as they relate to payroll tax, income and benefits reconciliation