Lead - Payroll & Compliance

Supervisory Responsibilities:

- Recruits, interviews, hires, and trains new staff in the department.

- Should have experience in handling payroll for 5 thousand to 10 thousand employees.

- Oversees the daily workflow of the department.

- Provides constructive and timely performance evaluations.

Duties/Responsibilities:

- Implements, maintains, and reviews payroll processing systems to ensure timely and accurate processing of payroll transactions including salaries, benefits, garnishments, taxes, and other deductions.

- Ensures accurate and timely processing of payroll updates including new hires, terminations, and changes to pay rates.

- Prepares and maintains accurate records and reports of payroll transactions.

- Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local payroll, wage, and hour laws and best practices.

- Facilitates audits by providing records and documentation to auditors.

- Identifies and recommends updates to payroll processing software, systems, and procedures.

- Performs other duties as assigned.

- Develop systems to process payroll account transactions (e.g. salaries, benefits, garnishments, deductions, taxes and third party payments).

- Coordinate timekeeping and payroll systems

- Oversee processing of payroll changes (e.g. new hires, terminations, raises) and system upgrades.

- Ensure compliance with relevant laws and internal policies.