Payroll Manager

Payroll Manager# Our Careers## Payroll Manager Apply:
Dublin, Ohio:
Full time:
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* Job Description:

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** The Payroll Manager provides strategic and operational leadership for the organization’s payroll function, ensuring employees are paid accurately, timely, and in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local requirements. This role has end-to-end accountability for payroll operations, including payroll processing, controls, compliance, reconciliation, reporting, team leadership, issue resolution, and continuous improvement.  The Payroll Manager leads and develops the payroll team while serving as a key partner to HR Operations, Finance, Total Rewards, Talent Acquisition, HR Technology, and business leaders.

The position is responsible for establishing strong payroll controls, identifying and mitigating risk, leveraging Workday and related technology to improve efficiency and accuracy, and ensuring payroll practices continue to evolve with the needs of the organization.  This role requires a leader who can balance operational excellence with a continuous improvement mindset, moving beyond successful payroll execution to proactively strengthen processes, controls, technology, service delivery, and the employee experience.  

## Essential Functions  ## Payroll Leadership & Operations###
* Provide end-to-end leadership and accountability for payroll operations, ensuring accurate and timely payroll processing across the organization.
* Lead the payroll team in the execution of regular, supplemental, off-cycle, and special payrolls as required.
* Establish clear operating procedures, calendars, controls, service expectations, and accountability across payroll processes.
* Review and approve payroll results, reconciliations, exception reporting, adjustments, and other critical payroll activities.
* Ensure appropriate escalation and resolution of complex payroll issues while identifying opportunities to address root causes and prevent recurrence.
* Maintain appropriate payroll documentation, standard operating procedures, process maps, and business continuity plans.
* Establish meaningful payroll performance indicators and regularly evaluate payroll accuracy, timeliness, service levels, exceptions, and operational trends.  ## Compliance, Controls & Risk Management
* Maintain a strong payroll control environment designed to protect employee information, organizational assets, and payroll accuracy.
* Ensure payroll practices comply with applicable federal, state, and local wage and hour, taxation, garnishment, withholding, recordkeeping, and payroll requirements.
* Monitor legislative and regulatory changes that may impact payroll administration and coordinate necessary process or system changes.
* Establish and regularly evaluate payroll controls, approvals, audits, reconciliations, and segregation of duties.
* Partner with Finance and HR leadership to support internal and external audits and promptly address identified control or process gaps.
* Proactively identify payroll-related operational, financial, compliance, and employee-experience risks and develop appropriate mitigation strategies.  ## Team Leadership & Development
* Lead, coach, and develop payroll team members, establishing clear expectations for performance, service, accountability, and professional growth.
* Build team capabilities through cross-training, documentation, succession planning, and ongoing development.
* Create an environment focused on accuracy, collaboration, continuous improvement, accountability, and exceptional employee service.
* Evaluate workload and team capacity and recommend appropriate staffing, role design, or process improvements as organizational needs evolve.
* Serve as the escalation point for complex payroll situations and provide sound judgment and guidance to team members.  ## Systems & Continuous Improvement
* Serve as a functional leader for payroll-related configuration, processes, and enhancements within
** Workday
* * and other applicable payroll technologies.
* Partner with HR Technology and other stakeholders to evaluate system functionality, resolve issues, test changes, and implement enhancements.
* Identify opportunities to automate manual processes, strengthen controls, reduce payroll corrections, and improve overall efficiency.
* Use payroll data and operational trends to identify root causes, improvement opportunities, and emerging risks.
* Lead or participate in payroll-related projects, system…