Payroll Manager, 2023-2024

Position Title: Payroll Manager

Payroll/Personnel Type: 12 Month

Job #: 8997

Reports to: Director of Payroll

Shift Length: 8 Hour Day

Union Eligibility: Not Eligible

Position Summary:

Manages the activities of a large, centralized payroll department in carrying out responsibility for U.S. payroll preparation/processing and one or more related responsibilities such as; tax reporting, benefits records, garnishments, administration, or payroll systems maintenance. Leads team initiatives and provides insight to third-party vendors to ensure payroll accuracy and compliance. This position spends more than 75% of its time performing payroll processing and related activities.

Essential Functions:

• Develops and controls all tasks necessary to accomplish the organization's payroll processing objectives, including relationships with internal and external auditors and state and federal agencies

• Analyzes, prepares, and inputs payroll data. Typically uses an automated system to produce accurate and timely payroll. Ensures compliance with all applicable state and federal Wage and Hour laws

• Ensures timely processing/delivery of payroll cycles for hourly and salaried employees.

• Oversees and directs the processes of the complete payroll cycle to ensure deadlines are met with completeness and accuracy

• Review payroll register to ensure all entries have been captured and represented on the payroll accurately

• Ensures District compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act. Responsible for adhering to federal, state, and local laws/guidelines, monitoring any changes, and advising management on actions needed

• Review all manual checks for need, validity, and accuracy

• Establishes and ensures compliance with clear policies and procedures to be communicated to all employees

• Runs and distributes various reports to management as needed

• Trains and develops payroll staff members

• Provides solid direction and instruction for payroll processes and concepts. Continually reviews processes to ensure the most accurate and efficient service is provided

• Assists employees with payroll-related questions and issues as needed

• Maintains technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, studying professional publications, and participating in payroll-related organizations

• Responsible for compliance with all state taxing agencies including both withholding and state unemployment taxing requirements

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to read a variety of informational documentation, directions, instructions, and methods and procedures related to maintenance operations

• Ability to write reports with proper format, punctuation, spelling, and grammar

• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization

• Ability to learn and understand relatively complex principles and techniques; to make independent judgments in the absence of supervision

• Ability to record and deliver information to supervisors and officials; to explain procedures and policies; and to follow verbal and written instructions, guidelines and objectives

• Ability to add and subtract totals; multiply and divide; determine percentages; determine time and weight; and utilize statistical inference

Experience:

• 7+ years of payroll processing experience for a large company (5k+ employees)

• 7+ years of Payroll Management experience

• SAP payroll product experience preferred

• Experience processing hourly and salaried employees

• Experience processing court-ordered garnishments

Education:

• Bachelor's degree or 7+ years of payroll experience or equivalent combination of education and experience in business functions

Physical Requirements:

• Must be physically able to operate a motor vehicle

• Must be able to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to lift, carry, push, and pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body

• Light work usually requires walking or standing to a significant degree

Working Conditions and Environment:

• Work is routinely performed in a typical interior/office environment

• Very limited or no exposure to physical risk

SLPS believes in taking care of its employees. We offer a fully insured healthcare plan along with some amazing perks! Here are some of the highlights of our benefits plan and perks, but you'll want to check out www.slps.org/careers for all of the details.

• Fully paid health insurance for self

• $30,000 of tuition reimbursement (certificated staff)

• $40,000 group term life insurance

• Eligibility for federal loan forgiveness programs

• Pension plan

• Robust wellness programs

Please note benefit and perk eligibility may vary by employee status, employment date, and job classification.