Manager, US Payroll Operations

Job Information

Date: Feb 24, 2026
Location: Greenville, SC, US, 29615
Company: Hubbell Incorporated

The Payroll Operations Manager is responsible for leading end‑to‑end payroll operations while ensuring full compliance with federal, state, and local regulations. This role oversees payroll processing, internal controls, risk management, and regulatory reporting, while also driving strategic initiatives to improve efficiency, accuracy, scalability, and employee experience. This leader ensures payroll is processed accurately and timely across all employee populations, maintaining strict adherence to wage and hour laws, tax regulations, SOX/internal control frameworks, and company policies.

This Payroll Operations Manager supports the Director, Global Payroll developing and implementing payroll strategy aligned with business growth, strategic direction, and best practices. The role is both a compliance steward and a strategic partner, ensuring payroll operations are controlled, scalable, data‑driven, and aligned with enterprise objectives.

• Provide leadership for end‑to‑end payroll operations, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payroll execution across all entities.
• Manage relationships and performance with payroll service providers and system partners.
• Oversee Payroll Operations audit and compliance processes through audits, providing change management, quarterly control certifications, remediation of deficiencies, and tracking of action plans; actively participate in walk‑throughs and controls testing.
• Provide Payroll Subject Matter Expertise and support for cycle processing activities such as FLSA, State‑Specific Rules/Regulations, Garnishments, Tax, Variance testing, Stock Vesting/SARS, Relocation, Reconciling and Auditing.
• Ensure Payroll Operations performance metrics and service level agreements (SLAs) are achieved and improved. Analyze and respond to service requests, identify trends and recommend process improvements; implement improvements to enhance service, compliance, and efficiency.
• Lead, coach, and develop payroll professionals, building enterprise capability and bench strength, ensuring high standards of service delivery.
• Serve as a strategic partner to HR Operations, Finance, IT, Benefits, and Compensation on payroll‑related initiatives and transformations; test time and payroll system functionality, document results, communicate findings, and develop procedures to ensure system updates are implemented with minimal business disruption.
• Lead Year End/Year Begin Payroll Actions, including uploads, WT & Component Set Up, Updates, Fixes, and Patches.
• Ensure Payroll Processes are Prepared and Maintained.
• Provide excellent customer service and support to employees, functional areas of the Hubbell organization and external customers, providing timely and complete response and follow‑up to questions and information requests.

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Information Systems or other related discipline.
• 10+ years of comprehensive payroll experience, including hands‑on payroll operations and processing in complex environments.
• 5+ years Global View, SAP and/or Dayforce Processing and support experience, including reporting, auditing and processing; must understand interdependence between HCM, Time & Attendance, and Payroll Systems.
• Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) designation strongly preferred.
• Direct hands‑on experience with SOX compliance and strong internal controls management.
• SAP/Success Factors HR (Employee Central) & SAP Finance applications (preferred).
• Deep Understanding of Federal, multi‑state and local tax regulations to ensure full compliance.
• End‑to‑end Payroll M&A Experience (Due Diligence, Scoping, and Integration, etc.) a plus.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel.

• Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Superior analytical and organizational skills with a focus on synthesizing information, using sound judgment, formulating conclusions and articulating data in a way that is meaningful and valuable to stakeholders and…