Payroll Manager

Payroll Manager

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As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we're proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together.

In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani® Italian cheeses and ricotta, Président® specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft® natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone's® cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel®, Black Diamond® cheddar, and Parmalat® milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi's®, Stonyfield Organic®, Brown Cow™, Oui®, Yoplait®, Go-Gurt®, :ratio®, Green Mountain Creamery®, and Mountain High®, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun®, Gopi®, and Arz®.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values—Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone's unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don't meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy.

From your PASSION to ours

Lactalis USA, part of the Lactalis family of companies, is currently hiring a Payroll Manager based in Buffalo NY.

The Payroll Manager leads the U.S. payroll function, with responsibility for the planning, organization, management, and continuous improvement of payroll operations. This role owns the development and governance of payroll and time and attendance processes across all U.S. entities, ensuring consistent standards, strong controls, compliance, accuracy, and scalable best practices.

The Payroll Manager provides leadership across payroll operations and establishes clear expectations for process ownership, documentation, accountability, and continuous improvement. This role plays a key part in strengthening and evolving payroll processes to support a consistent, efficient, and well-governed payroll experience across the organization.

From your EXPERTISE to ours

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Process Governance & SOPs:
  Establish, maintain, and continuously improve payroll and T&A policies, process maps, internal controls, and standard operating procedures across all US entities to ensure compliance, accuracy, and scalability.
• Vendor & System Operations:
  Oversee payroll and time/attendance vendor relationships, service performance, and system/timeclock configurations to ensure rapid issue resolution and minimal operational downtime.
• Regulatory Compliance:
  Monitor changes in federal, state, and local payroll regulations, assess impacts on systems and workflows, and lead timely compliance implementations.
• Payroll Execution & Oversight:
  Oversee weekly and biweekly payroll processing to guarantee timeliness, accuracy, and strong internal controls, utilizing post-payroll audits to drive root-cause improvements.
• System Integrations:
  Support integrations between payroll/T&A platforms and core enterprise software by defining data controls, testing protocols, and governance standards.
• Project Management:
  Lead payroll-driven initiatives by establishing project timelines, mitigating risks, and directing cross-functional resources to ensure successful execution.
• Executive & Global Payroll:
  Ensure high-level management and accurate execution of executive and expatriate payroll components.
• Tax Compliance & Audits:
  Oversee quarterly and annual reconciliations for federal, state, and local tax with holdings, while assuring compliant deduction processes for garnishments, benefits, etc. Partner with Accounting and Tax for internal/external audits and bank reconciliations, tax agency registrations, and check requests.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration:
  
  Partner with Compensation, HRIS, Benefits, Finance, and…