Director, Payroll | Enterprise Operations & Oracle Payroll

AlediumHR•Nashville, TN

21h•Hybrid

About The Position

A large national healthcare organization is seeking a Director of Payroll who can lead at scale. This is a highly visible enterprise leadership role with responsibility for payroll operations supporting approximately 55,000 employees nationwide, while also serving as the functional business leader for Oracle Payroll. The organization has moved beyond implementation. The next chapter focuses on strengthening operations, optimizing Oracle Payroll, improving processes, solving problems, and continuing to build a more efficient enterprise payroll function. For a payroll leader who understands both the operation and the system behind it, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact. You'll lead enterprise payroll operations across a large, complex, multi-state healthcare organization. The payroll organization includes 2 Payroll Managers and approximately 40 indirect team members. This requires someone who can lead strategically while staying close enough to the operation to understand what's happening beneath the numbers. Your leadership will span three interconnected areas: Enterprise payroll operations, Oracle Payroll ownership, and Optimization and transformation. You'll be expected to represent payroll in decisions involving Oracle, operations, process design, technology, controls, and future-state improvements. You'll step into an established payroll organization and an Oracle environment that is already live. The opportunity is to help determine how effectively both operate going forward. That makes this as much a payroll optimization and transformation opportunity as an operational leadership role.

Requirements

Hands-on experience with Oracle Payroll operations.
Experience owning payroll after an Oracle Payroll implementation, directly involved in areas such as: Quarterly Oracle release testing and validation, Payroll testing and issue resolution, Troubleshooting production payroll problems, Enhancement requests and functional improvements, Post-go-live system optimization, Payroll configuration and process decisions, Partnership with HRIS and IT teams, Translating payroll requirements into system functionality.
10+ years of progressive payroll experience, including significant leadership responsibility within a large, complex organization.
Leadership of large-scale, multi-state payroll operations.
Strong knowledge of federal, state, and local payroll compliance.
Understanding of payroll accounting, controls, reconciliation, and operational risk.

Nice To Haves

Healthcare experience, particularly within a large, geographically dispersed organization.
Experience with Oracle Fusion Payroll, Oracle HCM, process automation, payroll transformation, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

Ensure accurate, timely, and compliant payroll processing across multiple payroll cycles while strengthening the people, processes, controls, and operating discipline required to support approximately 55,000 employees.
Serve as the payroll business leader and functional expert for Oracle Payroll, partnering closely with HR, Finance, HRIS, and IT on quarterly releases, testing, validation, troubleshooting, enhancements, and system performance.
Identify where processes can be simplified, automated, standardized, or redesigned as the organization continues to mature its Oracle environment and bring additional payroll capabilities in-house.
Lead payroll teams in an enterprise or shared-services environment.
Partner across HR, Finance, HRIS, IT, and other enterprise functions.
Improve payroll processes rather than simply maintaining them.
Lead managers and larger teams through operational and system change.