Director, Global Payroll

Reporting to the Vice President, Corporate Controller & CAO, the Director of Payroll leads payroll strategy, operations, compliance, accounting, technology, and service delivery across North America, while providing governance and oversight for payroll activities in other global locations. The role oversees multiple legal entities and pay frequencies, supervises four direct reports in the United States, and partners closely with Human Resources, Finance, Accounting, Tax, Legal, Internal Audit, IT, and business leaders.

The position supports a geographically dispersed employee population that includes hourly and salaried employees across manufacturing, distribution, and corporate locations. The Director is accountable for establishing a scalable payroll operating model that balances centralized governance with local legal, operational, and employee-service requirements.

Accountable for payroll accuracy and timeliness, the Director maintains effective controls, oversees vendors, supports acquisitions and system changes, and advances continuous improvement. The Company currently uses ADP Vantage as its HRIS and payroll platform. Required hands-on Workday Payroll experience will support evaluation, design, testing, and implementation of the future payroll technology and operating model.

• Lead accurate , timely , and compliant payroll processing across U.S. and Canadian legal entities and pay cycles.
• Establish payroll calendars, service standards, controls, reconciliations, and approval processes; resolve exceptions and maintain appropriate segregation of duties.
• Ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, local, and Canadian payroll, wage-and-hour, tax, garnishment, recordkeeping, and reporting requirements.
• Direct quarterly and year-end activities, including Forms 940, 941, W-2, W-3, Canadian T4 reporting, tax filings, amendments, and agency notices.
• Administer payroll impacts for executive compensation, nonqualified deferred compensation, supplemental retirement plans, equity awards, profit-sharing programs, bonuses, and taxable fringe benefits.
• Oversee time and attendance processes, paid-time-off balances, payroll deductions, garnishments, and year-end accrual adjustments for U.S. operations.
• Manage state and local tax and unemployment registrations, agency correspondence, and compliance activities for new and existing jurisdictions .

• Oversee payroll accounting, including funding, general ledger entries, accruals, reconciliations, variance analysis, and period-end reporting.
• Review and approve payroll funding, vendor invoices, tax payments, relocation payments, and other payroll-related disbursements within delegated authority.
• Serve as the primary payroll contact for internal and external auditors and coordinate timely , accurate responses to audit and control inquiries.
• Maintain payroll policies, procedures, process maps, controls, and business-continuity documentation; ensure materials remain current and audit-ready.
• Develop, test, and maintain payroll business-continuity and disaster-recovery procedures, including backup processing, funding contingencies, critical-system outages, and timely escalation of events that could affect employee pay.
• Protect confidential employee and payroll data by following privacy, cybersecurity, access-control , and records-retention requirements.
• Lead the investigation and resolution of material payroll errors, over payments, underpayments, tax failures, and control breakdowns; determine root causes, communicate impacts to appropriate stakeholders, and implement sustainable corrective actions.

• Own payroll configuration, testing, issue resolution, data integrity, security coordination, and process governance within ADP Vantage, the current HRIS and payroll platform.
• Apply Workday Payroll experience to evaluate future-state processes, support integrations and testing, and contribute to system transformation initiatives.
• Lead payroll-related integrations, acquisitions, divestitures, implementations, upgrades, and other cross-functional projects from requirements through stabilization.
• Develop dashboards and operating metrics that provide leadership with insight into payroll accuracy, timeliness, controls, compliance, service levels, and continuous-improvement priorities.

• Establish and maintain a global payroll governance framework,…