Payroll Director Job Description
Payroll director
provides input for process improvements to ensure efficient and accurate payroll processing, payroll tax reporting, garnishment processing, and payroll accounting.
Payroll Director Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Partner with Accounting and Treasury departments to assist with reconciliation of payroll funding, manual checks, assist with G/L process through postings, reporting and reconciliations
Partner with Accounting and AP to streamline foreign vendor billing and payment processes (AP is centralized in Los Gatos)
Accurate and timely paychecks and financial accounting of payroll, stock and travel in 10+ countries and growing
Define, build and lead organization accountable for U.S. business travel related payroll processing, tax and accounting, quality assurance, metrics and reporting risk management
Collaborate with colleagues across other organizational units (e.g., benefits, budget, accounting, finance, IT) and University campuses to ensure optimal outcomes and effective risk management
Provides quality assurance over all payroll and benefits data and payroll time keeping systems that interface with Accounting and Human Resources systems
Assist Accounting with month-end, quarter-end, year-end close, and annual audit
Create, lead and grow a high performing Global Payroll team comfortable operating in a highly complex, dynamic, and frequently ambiguous environment
Helps develop and communicate a strategic plan to meet current/future business requirements based on industry and legislative trends and feedback from the business
Team leadership and direction
Payroll Director Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Payroll Director
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPP, FEMA, CPA, PMP, FPC, SHRM, APA, FPX, CSPO, E2E
Education for Payroll Director
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the payroll director job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Accounting, Business, Finance, Education, Human Resources, Management, Business/Administration, MBA, Leadership, Communication
Skills for Payroll Director
Desired skills for payroll director include:
Internal/external audits
Garnishments
Issue resolution
Payroll/payroll tax processing
Research of payroll tax and wage/hour requirements for new locations
Business and marketplace to advance company goals
SaaS payroll systems and vendor management
Accounting
Employment regulations in the respective jurisdictions
SAP
Desired experience for payroll director includes:
Excellent communication, interpersonal, relationship and consensus building skills with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization
Evaluation of Time & Attendance and other data inputs to the payroll process
Calculation of gross to net pay for Tyco employees
Benefits payments and deductions, tax / statutory and garnishment processing
General ledger upload of payroll files and report generation / distribution
Generation and filing of legal / statutory reports
Payroll Director Examples
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Payroll Director Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of payroll director. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for payroll director
- Process the annual W-2 statements the Annual STIP Bonus payments
- Manage and assist with Payroll processing
- Focus on system and process improvements
- Be the thought leader on Global Payroll strategy
- What platform/technology should we utilize?
- Use in-country payroll providers or global aggregator?
- Manage from US or staff in EMEA and APAC?
- Be a key strategic business partner to our Employee Services and Legal teams as we think through complexities of international hiring
- Represent Payroll in various strategy and alignment meetings with management at VP and Officer level
- Own administration of stock plans and related regulatory filings
Qualifications for payroll director
- Minimum 10+ years relevant experience managing a payroll operations team preferably in a large, corporate environment with multi-state payroll
- Knowledge of employment regulations in the U.S. and Canada including compliance with country guidelines
- Expert level knowledge of end-to-end processing of Payroll, multi-state payroll tax, time reporting systems
- ADP, ADP eTime, ADPR, Oracle, Workday or similar systems experience preferred
- Proficient in Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint
- Experience managing financial operations around stock and travel programs a plus
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of payroll director. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for payroll director
- Analyze the current benefit offerings, evaluating the usage, services, coverage, effectiveness, cost, plan experience, and competitive trends in benefits programs
- Design and distribute materials and communication tools for benefit orientations, open enrollment, benefits package and summary plan descriptions
- Ensure benefits offerings are appropriate in industry
- Ensure journal entries are prepared and submitted to Finance department within established timeframes
- Oversee benefits orientation and the open enrollment process
- Revise and maintain employee handbook and policies
- Comply with all recurring compliance obligations
- Ensure we are compliant – new regulations/audits/ongoing requirements – timely/accurately
- Develop Process Optimization – Process/Systems
- Prioritize initiatives
Qualifications for payroll director
- Run a metric based program
- Manage a team of 9 to 13 (3 professionals
- Drive retail operational excellence and consistency by providing expertise (tools, systems, communication, and processes) necessary for stores to improve their business and profitability
- Perform analyses on key business drivers and develop interpretation of results, along with preparation of financial and operating trend analyses
- Perform analyses regarding operational financial opportunities, investment performance, and impact of requirements
- Proactively generate and compile reports, track expenses and revenues vs
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a payroll director. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for payroll director
- Promote an environment that fosters respect for the ideas of others and supports ongoing collaboration to execute business strategy
- Provide feedback, coaching and guidance to direct report to prioritize department objectives
- Manage other projects as assigned to enable Store Operations overall functionality
- Create routines and collaborative partnerships to document and share best practices broadly
- Ensuring accuracy of new hire and personnel changes from HR
- Developing a close working partnership with HR, including Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators
- Timesheet administration for professional services and non-exempt employees
- Processing garnishment, child support and tax levies
- Creating manual check updates for Stock Option activity to report wages and taxes
- Providing support for various audits (internal and external
Qualifications for payroll director
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written, along with the ability to influence and demonstrate confidence in communications with all levels of management
- Knowledge of labor management
- Ability to be flexible, quick and accurate and adapt to changing business needs and processes
- Understanding of retail store systems and equipment (point of sale, inventory management, hand-held terminals, labor scheduling applications)
- Retail operations or store experience required
- Excellent team leader/manager
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Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of payroll director. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for payroll director
- Responsible for ensuring systems and processes correctly compute and record time, earnings, commissions, benefits and deductions, taxes, garnishments, and other components of payroll in a strong internal controls environment
- Files tax reports and voluntary deduction reports, processing involuntary deductions such as levies and garnishments
- Ensure compliance with policy, state, and regulatory requirements
- Analyze pay data entries
- Review timesheets and attendance
- Responsible for benefits
- Reviews all tax filing reports, 941’s, 940’s, SUI, and FUTA filings internal reports
- Communicate clear goals and objectives to successfully meet key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Effectively listens to input, troubleshoots, and makes timely, thoughtful decisions
- Provides advice and support to global Human Resources and Finance Shared Services teams in other duties and projects as appropriate
Qualifications for payroll director
- Implementation of ADP or extensive experience with ADP
- Experience working with ADP Payforce, preferred not required
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field (education requirement may be substituted with additional four years of professional payroll experience)
- No less than 5 years leading a complex payroll function (multiple payrolls, tax jurisdictions)
- Understanding of payroll deductions, salary expenses, electronic transfer, wages and hour laws as they relate to payroll, bank accounts, time and attendance, and other associated system
- Demonstrated ability to work under pressure, to manage multiple concurrent tasks and responsibilities, and to deal with changing priorities, while maintaining personal effectiveness
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Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a payroll director. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for payroll director
- Partner with Compensation & Benefits, HRIS, Equity and Accounting teams to ensure the accuracy, timeliness and compliance of reportings, while documenting the policies, processes and controls, and identify and implement improvements
- Overall responsible for tax deposits/returns
- Experience with time management tools and various states FLSA pay compliance rules
- Ensure staffing levels are maximized in order to meet country level global service requirements
- Designs, develops, improves and/or implements cost-effective and employee/entity-responsive administration systems for employee benefit plans
- Hires, orients, trains and provides leadership and technical guidance to staff
- Provides training to management and staff as necessary to promote comprehension of the benefits package
- Ensure timely and accurate processing of payroll for all defined locations and employees
- Build and nurture strong working relationships with all levels of the organization
- Direct, develop and control the payroll processes for EmCare clinicians including APP’s
Qualifications for payroll director
- Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) from four-year college or university and a minimum of 10 years of related experience and/or raining
- Knowledge of Deltek CostPoint, Deltek T&E, ADP or similar related Payroll and Time & Attendance Systems
- In-depth expertise of local, state and federal regulations
- Past experience in implementing and/or managing a large multi-state/multi-company payroll with 2,500+ employees required
- Experience in U.S. GAAP including strong balance sheets and reconciliation skillset
- Demonstrated experience with process improvement and change management