Senior Manager Payroll

Swire Coca-Cola • Draper, UT

6d

About The Position

Who is Swire Coca-Cola? We are a family-owned bottling company with a story spanning over two centuries. We are one of the largest bottlers of Coca-Cola in North America and distribute more than 50 beverage brands and flavors creating joy for our customers every day. Our 8,000+ driven employees work hard as part of a team that delivers refreshment to over 30 million consumers across 13 states. Begin a journey with us at Swire Coca-Cola and belong to a community of dedicated team members who think big and believe in winning together.
What does a Senior Manager Payroll do at Swire Coca-Cola?
The Senior Manager, Payroll provides enterprise leadership over payroll operations, systems, and controls within a Dayforce managed services environment, with a focus on ensuring accurate, compliant, and scalable payroll processes while thoughtfully evaluating upstream and downstream impacts across HR, Finance, Compliance, and Reporting. This role requires a highly detail-oriented, process-driven, and strategic leader who excels at anticipating second- and third-order effects when implementing policy, system, or process changes. The ideal candidate brings a structured, methodical approach to problem-solving, strong technical, analytical, documentation, and communication skills, and the ability to work independently while partnering closely with cross-functional stakeholders in an outcome-driven environment.

Requirements

• 7+ years of progressive payroll experience with enterprise-wide Tier 1 HCM platforms, including hands-on configuration and optimization required
• Experience leading payroll process improvements in complex, multi-state environments required
• Experience supporting payroll in complex employment states such as California, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington required
• Holistic approach to policy changes anticipating downstream and long-term impacts of system and policy changes required
• Experience supporting multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction, or high-volume payroll environments required

Nice To Haves

• Payroll compliance, internal controls, and audit considerations experience preferred
• Prior experience supporting short-term optimization or transformation initiatives within payroll preferred
• Cross functional partnership experience with Finance, Internal Audit, Benefit teams, etc. preferred
• Bachelor Degree in Business, Finance, or similar preferred

Responsibilities

• Oversee and support end-to-end payroll operations within a Dayforce managed services environment, including processing, reporting, reconciliations, and issue resolution
• Ensure compliance with all applicable wage and hour laws, tax regulations, and employment standards across multiple states and jurisdictions, including management of payroll-related audits, tax filings, and regulatory inquiries
• Identify, mitigate, and prevent payroll risks by establishing and maintaining strong internal controls, including segregation of duties, approvals, exception handling, remediation, and audit readiness, while preventing fraud, errors, and unauthorized changes
• Design, standardize, and document end-to-end payroll processes to improve accuracy, efficiency, scalability, and auditability across the enterprise, including SOP development and control testing
• Develop and maintain payroll business continuity and disaster recovery plans to ensure operational resilience
• Partner closely with HRIS, Payroll, Finance, IT, Compliance, and Dayforce Managed Services to align payroll solutions with business needs and enterprise priorities
• Lead or support Dayforce payroll configuration, testing, validation, and parallel payroll testing, while evaluating upstream and downstream impacts across HR, benefits, time & attendance, finance, reporting, and system integrations
• Analyze payroll data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for process improvements, efficiency gains, and cost savings
• Support change management efforts to ensure adoption, consistency, and long-term sustainability of payroll process and system improvements
• Lead, mentor, and develop payroll team members by setting clear goals, driving accountability, and fostering a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement

Benefits

• Health coverage (3 medical options, dental and vision)
• 401(k) Retirement Plan w/company match
• Health Savings Accounts w/company match
• FREE virtual primary care, acute care and physical therapy
• FREE Employee Assistance Program
• Company paid (vacation, holidays, sick time, bereavement, jury duty, maternity/parental, disability leave and volunteer time)
• Discounted & free product
• Tuition reimbursement
• Opportunities for career advancement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level