AVP, Payroll

Revantage•Chicago, IL

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

The AVP, Payroll Operations is responsible for leading a scalable, globally integrated payroll function delivering consistent, compliant, and high-quality payroll services across Revantage and supported Blackstone Real Estate portfolio companies. This role owns payroll service delivery within a shared-services model, ensuring operational excellence, system integrity, and a seamless employee and stakeholder experience.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in human resources or related field
Minimum of 12 years of payroll experience
Minimum of 10 years of experience in a management role, identifying and building high-performing teams focused on payroll management
Extensive experience in Workday, ADP & PEO payroll systems and processes
Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships with stakeholders, including team members, management, vendors, clients and external parties
Experience presenting to C-Suite executives
Highly proficient with Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
Self-motivated with the ability to excel and be flexible in fast-paced, ever-changing environments
Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills
Extensive knowledge of applicable state and federal employment, wage & hour, and labor laws

Nice To Haves

Experience working in shared service environment or with outsourced service providers
CPP (Certified Payroll Professional) Certification

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end payroll service delivery across Revantage and portfolio companies, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and consistency in a multi-entity environment.
Manage payroll operations across multiple legal entities, jurisdictions, and employee populations, balancing standardization with client-specific requirements.
Establish and maintain service delivery standards, SLAs, and performance metrics to drive accountability and continuous improvement.
Ensure payroll readiness across the employee lifecycle, including accurate processing of new hires, terminations, compensation changes, and time and absence inputs.
Partner with Compensation, Benefits, People Operations, Finance, and P&C Business Partners to ensure alignment, data integrity, and a coordinated employee experience.
Lead a globally integrated payroll operating model across onshore and India-based teams, optimizing work allocation, scalability, and cost efficiency.
Build and develop a high-performing payroll organization, defining clear roles, capabilities, and career progression across regions.
Drive knowledge transfer, process standardization, and operational consistency across global teams.
Foster a service-oriented, partner-focused culture that supports complex stakeholder needs across multiple portfolio companies.
Serve as the functional owner of payroll within Workday, ensuring data integrity, process standardization, and system optimization as the system of record.
Drive governance and consistency across Workday payroll, time, and absence configurations to enable scale and reduce manual intervention.
Partner with People Technology to lead system enhancements, integrations, and releases impacting payroll operations.
Oversee issue resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement of system performance and user experience.
Manage a hybrid payroll delivery model, including oversight of external PEO and payroll vendors.
Ensure clear accountability, accurate data exchange, and alignment across internal and external payroll processes.
Monitor vendor performance, service quality, and cost efficiency, identifying opportunities to optimize the operating model over time.
Ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, local, and international payroll regulations and tax requirements.
Establish and maintain strong internal controls, audit readiness, and risk mitigation practices across all payroll processes.
Oversee accurate and timely payroll tax filings, regulatory reporting, and year-end processes.
Partner with internal and external auditors to support payroll-related audits and compliance reviews.
Maintain strict confidentiality and adherence to data privacy and security standards.
Lead payroll transformation initiatives aligned to global process standardization and automation priorities.
Identify and implement opportunities to reduce manual processing, improve accuracy, and enhance scalability through system and process improvements.
Develop and deliver payroll-related analytics and insights, including workforce cost reporting and payroll variance analysis.
Partner with Finance to ensure alignment between payroll outputs and financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting.
Own the integrity of upstream and downstream payroll inputs and outputs, ensuring alignment across onboarding, compensation, benefits, timekeeping, and financial systems.
Collaborate across People Operations, Benefits, Compensation, and Finance to drive seamless end-to-end processes and data governance.
Act as a consultative subject matter expert within a complex, matrixed stakeholder environment.