Director of Payroll

Founded in 1973, Inter-Con Security Systems, Inc. is a leading global security company, providing a full range of physical security services to government and commercial customers on four continents. Inter-Con specializes in providing customized security services to clients whose needs exceed the capabilities of traditional guard firms. Clients include the Departments of State, Justice, Homeland Security, Energy, and Defense, as well as Fortune 500 companies, major public utilities, and ultra-high net worth individuals.

Inter-Con employs over 35,000 security personnel worldwide, trained and managed by a team of professionals with unsurpassed military, law enforcement, and security experience. Inter-Con remains 100% family owned and managed and operates as the industry leader in the field of customized, high-requirement security solutions.

Inter-Con is Everywhere Security Matters.

The Director of Payroll provides hands-on leadership and operational ownership of Inter-Con’s payroll function, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payroll processing across multiple pay groups and a large, complex workforce. This role is responsible for stabilizing and optimizing payroll execution in a highly exception-driven environment, strengthening controls, improving visibility and tracking of special requests, and partnering cross-functionally to reduce risk and increase consistency.

This position is expected to be highly experienced in union payroll environments, complex pay rules (including step-up/step-down scenarios), and enterprise payroll systems. The Director will play a key leadership role in the organization’s payroll technology ecosystem and will support payroll system transition work (including Paycom-to-ADP changeover), while ensuring payroll continuity week over week. The Director will also be comfortable presenting to senior leaders and engaging with the Mexico City SSC team through ongoing partnership and periodic travel.

• Oversees the daily workflow of payroll operations across pay groups and locations.
• Provides direct leadership to payroll management (including Mexico SSC payroll management) and serves as an escalation point for payroll exceptions and compliance risk.
• Supports recruiting, onboarding, training, coaching, and performance management for payroll staff in coordination with HR and leadership.
• Drives accountability, quality standards, and continuous improvement across payroll processes and service levels.

• Owns end-to-end payroll operations, ensuring payroll is processed accurately and on time across multiple pay groups on a continuous weekly cycle.
• Establishes and maintains robust controls and reconciliation checkpoints to ensure special requests (e.g., spot bonuses, sign-on bonuses, terminations, retro adjustments, discrepancies, audit requests) are captured, tracked, and processed without miss.
• Develops and maintains weekly payroll “close” runbooks, checklists, and exception dashboards to ensure completeness and reduce reliance on manual personal task tracking.
• Leads root-cause analysis for payroll errors/over payments and implements prevention measures (not just corrections).
• Ensures payroll documentation, SOPs, and case processes are current, practical, and adopted by stakeholders.

• Ensures compliance with CBAs, wage/hour, tax regulations, and related labor requirements, partnering with HR, Benefits, Legal, Contracts, and Operations as needed.
• Brings deep union payroll expertise to interpret complex rules, guide decisioning, and reduce risk of mispayment and associated escalations.
• Supports audits and high-visibility payroll requests with rigor, discretion, and executive-ready communication.

• Demonstrates advanced expertise in enterprise payroll systems (ADP experience strongly preferred) and supports payroll system transition efforts while maintaining operational stability.
• Partners with cross-functional teams to strengthen system integrations and upstream data quality (including Salesforce timekeeping/rule sets feeding payroll).
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