US Senior & Time Manager

Job Description Summary

GE Aerospace’s US Pay & Time Center of Excellence (COE) is a team of dedicated specialists focused on delivering accurate and timely payroll and time & attendance services for exempt and non-exempt employee populations. The team ensures seamless integration and alignment of payroll and time & attendance processes with broader organizational goals, establishing standard work and governance to leverage best practices and support the successful preparation, processing, and documentation of payroll.

The US Senior Pay & Time Manager role is a critical leadership position responsible for overseeing a team of payroll and time & attendance specialists supporting exempt and non-exempt US employee populations across multiple sites and business units. This role drives sets direction and drives strategic initiatives to ensure timely, accurate, and compliant payroll processing, enabling employees to focus on delivering excellence in safety, quality, delivery, and cost (SQDC).

As a key partner to site leaders and senior stakeholders, the US Senior Pay & Time Manager fosters strong connections across the organization, ensuring alignment with business priorities while using Flight Deck to implement process improvements, standardization, simplification, and operational efficiency. This role leverages best practices from across GE Aerospace and external benchmarks, guiding leaders and the team in creating innovative solutions to enhance payroll systems and practices.

This role requires a forward-thinking approach to payroll operations, combining deep technical expertise with strategic leadership to deliver exceptional service and continuous improvement.

This role partners closely with HR Managers, Business Leaders, Digital Technology, and other People Operations teams, acting as a liaison across these functions to drive process improvements, enhance system functionality, and ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations. You will influence strategy and priorities across sites and programs, ensuring consistent execution and measurable impact on SQDC.

As a US Senior Pay & Time Manager, you will be responsible for leading the compliance, productivity and efficiency of the essential service and process delivery of payroll and time & attendance functions. You will provide strategic direction and insight on continuous improvement solutions to evolve and enhance payroll and time & attendance processes and systems, and you will build leadership capability to sustain results.

Additionally you will be responsible for serving as a peer mentor to other team leaders in the NAM organization.

• Ensuring pay is processed on time, accurately and in compliance with government regulations.
• Leading a high-performing team, developing the team’s technical proficiency, making training and development opportunities available and achievable.
• Partner with others such as site leaders, vendors, HR Partners, Total Rewards, and People Ops teams on compliant and sustainable design, implementation, and governance of pay practices, resolving complex escalations and risk.
• Manage the partnership with Digital Technology and time and attendance application support to provide feedback and direction on the time and attendance system road map & strategy, and partner on implementation and maintenance.
• Drive process improvements and implement strategic initiatives.
• Resolving complex escalations and risk, explaining complex payroll concepts to a range of employee personas from executives to HR to production employees in a clear and approachable manner.
• Implement standard work for pay & time processes & procedures.
• Building strong cross-functional relationships and executive stakeholder management; aligning objectives and resources across functions; surfacing risks with mitigation plans.
• Analyzing payroll data and metrics to identify trends and opportunities for improvement, leading root cause analysis; translating insights into action plans with measurable outcomes.
• Managing over/underpayment processes and partnership with HR and Union Relations / Employee Relations teams to ensure…