Payroll Services Manager

Payroll Services Manager

Job Description

Partners with organizational leaders to drive growth and enable the achievement of the organization’s strategic financial goals both short and long-term. Ensures fiduciary responsibility across the business by establishing and enabling proper and effective organizational processes, procedures, controls, and records for of all aspects of financial transactions, events, and situations.

Job Description

Manages the organization’s financial records, including the chart of accounts, processing of journal entries, and adjustment of general ledger accounts. Performs operational activities to close the books on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis as well as recording, tracking, and depreciation of fixed assets in accordance with the organization's accounting policies and procedures and the related accounting principles.

• Achieves goals through the work of others.
• Management responsibilities include performance appraisals, pay reviews, training and development for three or more employees.
• Requires broad technical expertise and company/industry knowledge.
• Accountable for functional, operational and/or program management.
• Management responsibilities include hiring & terminating decisions, performance appraisals, pay reviews, training, and development for three or more employees.

General Profile

• Has primary accountability for the performance and results of a team within own discipline.
• Manages professional employees and/or supervisors.
• Adapts departmental plans and priorities to address resource and operational challenges.
• Exercises judgement within defined practices and policies to determine appropriate action; receives guidance from manager.
• Provides technical guidance to employees, colleagues and/or customers.

Functional Knowledge

• Requires in-depth understanding of concepts, theories and principles in own discipline and growing knowledge of other disciplines.
• Business Expertise
• Translates strategy/priorities into work product.
• Impact
• Impacts the level of service and the team’s ability to meet quality, volume, and timeliness objectives.
• Guided by policies, resource requirements, budgets, and the business plan.

Leadership

• Manages a generally homogeneous team; builds engagement in teams to meet service and/or operational challenges.
• Approves OT/ operational expenses/ rollup data to provide recommendations.
•  Problem Solving
• Identifies and resolves technical, operational, and organizational problems.
• May participate in solving problems across a matrix.

Interpersonal Skills

Guides, influences, and persuades others either internally or lower complexity external customers or agencies.

Responsibility Statements

• Leads a payroll large team from both an administrative and technical perspective.
• Manages supervisors of other associates.
• Trains new hires and less experienced payroll department managers.
• Manages regional projects and process improvement initiatives.
• Assures all operational, audit, control, and business continuity operations for one or more countries.
• Executes payroll operations assurance.
• Coordinates and executes audit and control activities.
• Coordinates with other departments on payroll related matters.
• Provides input on strategic and operational initiatives.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.