North America Payroll Director

Holcim - Chicago, IL

Full-time - Senior

Chicago, IL

Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing

About the position

The North America Payroll Director leads the company's payroll function and team for approximately 17,000 employees across all U.S. states and Canadian provinces. This role is on-site.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a strategic plan to optimize the North American payroll practices, team, and technology.
• Design and implement workflows and internal controls to ensure payroll is consistently accurate, timely and in compliance with all applicable laws.
• Ensure compliance with federal, provincial, state and local payroll and wage tax requirements.
• Working closely with IT, evaluate current and alternative payroll technology, and implement improvements to payroll processing and delivery.
• Identify opportunities to increase efficiencies and synergies, streamline processes to enhance the end-user experience and execute accordingly.
• Develop reporting capabilities, providing data analytics and metrics to support decisions.
• Oversee payroll administration through the company's shared service center and field HR team members.
• Participate in recruiting, training and developing payroll experts at the company's shared service center and local HR.
• Participate in acquisition due diligence and integration.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Human Resources, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum of 10 years leading multiple high-volume, high-frequency multi-state, and province hourly and salaried payrolls within an organization of more than 5,000 employees.
• Demonstrated experience building or transforming a large-scale payroll function.
• Demonstrated experience leading and executing large-scale projects.
• Experience managing acquisition payroll integration.
• Experience with SAP and SuccessFactors highly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in system implementations preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Retirement Savings: Choose from 401(k) pre-tax and/or Roth after-tax savings
• Medical, Dental, Disability and Life Insurance
• Holistic Health & Well-being programs Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) & Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) for health and dependent care
• Vision and other Voluntary benefits and discounts
• Paid time off & paid holidays
• Paid Parental Leave (maternity & paternity)
• Educational Assistance Program
• Dress for your day