Senior Payroll Specialist

Senior Payroll Specialist, North America

At Nouryon, our global team takes positive action every day, to reach higher collectively and individually. We create innovative and sustainable solutions for our customers to answer society’s needs – today and in the future. We are looking for a Senior Payroll Specialist with strong multi-state payroll experience who enjoys solving complex payroll issues, taking ownership, and identifying opportunities to improve processes.

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As Senior Payroll Specialist, North America, you will play a key role in delivering accurate, timely, and compliant payroll for approximately 1,600 employees across the United States and Canada. You will join a lean, collaborative payroll team and work closely with HR Operations, Finance, Benefits, HR Technology, and other internal partners.

• Support the end-to-end payroll process for approximately 1,600 employees across North America, including hourly and salaried, union and non-union populations and multiple payroll frequencies.
• Process and review complex payroll transactions and reconcile payroll reports, ensuring payroll is accurate, timely, and compliant with applicable requirements.
• Investigate and resolve complex payroll, time and attendance, and employee data discrepancies, taking ownership of issues through resolution.
• Partner closely with HR Operations, Finance, Benefits, HR Technology, and our third-party payroll provider to maintain data integrity and resolve payroll-related inquiries.
• Support payroll compliance, audits, year-end activities, reporting, internal controls, and documentation of payroll procedures and processes.
• Analyze payroll processes and metrics, identify opportunities for continuous improvement, and proactively recommend solutions that improve accuracy, efficiency, and service delivery.

• Strong hands-on experience managing multi-state payroll in a large or complex organization, including hourly and salaried employee populations.
• Deep knowledge of U.S. federal, state, and local payroll regulations, compliance requirements, payroll reconciliation, and complex payroll transactions.
• Experience working with multiple payroll cycles and managing competing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced payroll environment.
• A bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Accounting, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent progressive payroll experience.
• Strong analytical and reporting skills, including advanced Microsoft Excel capabilities such as pivot tables, VLOOKUP, IF formulas, conditional formatting, and data validation.
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with teams such as HR, Finance, Benefits, and HR Technology.

• Experience supporting Canadian payroll and/or union payroll populations.
• Experience with ADP Global View (GV), SAP, Kronos Time & Attendance, Success Factors Employee Central, and/or Service Now.
• Fundamental Payroll Certification (FPC) or Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) certification.

• You are proactive and accountable, taking ownership of issues and investigating discrepancies before escalating them.
• You bring strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, with close attention to detail and a commitment to payroll accuracy.
• You are also collaborative and comfortable working as part of a small team.
• You communicate effectively across functions, bring ideas forward, and look for opportunities to improve processes rather than simply following existing ways of working.
• You are dependable, organized, and able to manage multiple priorities and deadlines with a sense of urgency while handling sensitive and confidential information with…