Sr. Director of Rewards

Summary/Objective:
The Sr. Director of Total Rewards is a critical role across RJW, that will develop and lead initiatives across compensation and benefits, payroll, and HR compliance. In this role, the Sr. Director of Total Rewards will be responsible for ensuring competitiveness while maintaining cost efficiency, associate engagement, aligned with long-term strategy.

• Lead and supervise staff across compensation, benefits, payroll, and HR compliance to drive business performance, as well as comply with legal requirements
• Manage weekly disbursement of multi-state payroll, including garnishments, benefits, and taxes to 1000 plus employees consistent with federal and state wage and hour laws.
• Lead the annual performance review cycle, providing expert counsel on the design, development and administration of compensation programs, salary structures, and short- and long-term incentives and commissions.
• Design, analyze, and manage reporting initiatives to review financial metrics aligning with budget, evaluate current processes, and opportunities to improve
  5. Critically review and analyze current payroll, benefits and tax procedures in order to recommend and implement changes leading to best practice operations.
• Resolve payroll questions and errors
• Audit W4's, payroll balance sheets, YTD earnings, etc.
• Communicate actively with Operations, HR and Billing to review cross-departmental impacts and reconcile data sharing.
• Partner with HR in aligning and implementing a more sophisticated payroll and benefits system. 10. Oversee internal payroll and accounting audits.
• Ensure systems are set-up and updated to reflect our current employee base, including wages, benefits, PTO.
• Work with Controller on General Ledger.
• Manage regular preparation of relevant management reports, including weekly, monthly, quarterly and year end reports (gross payroll, hours worked, PTO accruals, tax deductions, benefits deductions, etc.
• Responsible for all 401k monitoring and work along with CHRO in annual audits to ensure we are compliant.

• 10+ years progressive experience in payroll required.
• Experience with compensation design, including incentive, commission, structure, and executive compensation desired
• Experience leading and developing teams
• Experience developing associate benefits programs, including developing policies and administrative regulations
• Visionary leadership with successful track record in creating and leading cross-functional initiatives related to Compensation and Benefit strategies, and process implementation

Demonstrated experience in the following areas:

• executive compensation, salary planning, incentive plans, market pricing, job evaluation, data analysis, research, and cost modeling

• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to communicate vision and gain alignment with senior leaders, both internally and externally
• Ability to influence, adapt and lead through ambiguity and change in a dynamic growth environment
• Supervisory Responsibility This position manages all employees of the Payroll and Benefits department.
• Work Environment This job operates in a professional office environment.
• This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as laptop computers and smartphones.

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell.
• The employee must occasionally lift or move up to 20 pounds.
• Speci…