Director Payroll

Location:

Boston, MA

Salary: $,000.00 per year. Bonus offered, competitive 401(k) match, and day one benefits.

• Must have 10+ years of progressive payroll management experience in a large complex (10,000+ employee) North American organization.
• Must have BS degree or CPP
• Must have 6+ years of management experience and experience in implementing and/or managing a large multi-location payroll provider in the United States.
• Demonstrated leadership involving skilled teams and change management.
• Experience with complex cross-functional payroll projects.
• Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal, relationship building and business partnering skills are required.
• Experience in delivering payroll services within a heavily unionized, multiple CBA employer.
• Experience with UKG HCM and payroll software platform strongly preferred.
• Strong experience in time and attendance auditing and time control and reporting, Workforce Management strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in digitalization/automation of business/payroll process and ideally some experience in utilization of AI.

• Effectively multi-task, prioritize work, demonstrate accountability, and lead a team of payroll professionals to support US payroll activities.
• KPI development and monthly business reporting on payroll performance and
• Bi-lingual – English and French speaker preferred.
• Be able to influence and negotiate priorities with a focus on continuous improvement of operational processes and systems.

Payroll process compliance and improvement

• Deliver accurate, timely and high-quality professional payroll services to employees across US, in a complex portfolio business.
• Enhance payroll analytical and reporting capabilities to update stakeholders regularly and provide meaningful decision support for management.
• Stay current on US regulations, benefits changes that impact payroll deductions and taxation and labor laws impacting the payroll process, and stay compliant for all payroll tax jurisdictions.
• Serve as subject-matter expert for the payroll software platform (currently UKG), and time & attendance platform (currently Kronos/Dimensions and UTA).
• Ensure systems and internal controls adequately support North America payroll, employment taxes and all applicable labor laws and regulations.
• Ensure compliance with all federal, state, and local laws and regulations as well as company policies regarding payments of wages, tax withholding, garnishments, and employee deductions.
• Ensure taxes and other required government with holdings are executed, collected, deposited and reported on a timely basis to federal, state, provincial and local authorities in a secure manner.
• Coordinate year-end tax activities including adjustments to tax with holdings, submission of IRS employer reports, and distribution of wage and tax statements (W-2, 1042-S and T4) to employees.
• Perform research and analysis of current payroll issues and propose and implement appropriate solutions.
• Develop, maintain and regularly assess internal controls for payroll processes and related payroll software systems.
• Ensure internal controls and regulatory and company established narratives and controls are correct and comprehensive.
• Build proactive, collaborative relationships with stakeholders, outside vendors and global payroll teams to ensure global best practices and process consistency.
• Produce records of employment.

• Oversee the time & attendance team with CBA requirements/company policies in creating/implementing business process and set up in the UKG systems.
• Drive and assure the delivery of the for time and attendance system including payroll audits
• Ensure accurate reporting of time to payroll- creating checks and balances.
• Ensure…