Senior Manager - Payroll

SSA Marine•Seattle, WA

7h•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Manager - Payroll is responsible for overseeing the end-to-end payroll operations globally, ensuring accurate and timely payments for employees. This position oversees the calculation of wages, taxes, and deductions to ensure compliance with diverse international payroll, and wage and hour laws. The role also prepares all requested Payroll reporting for internal and external use.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience required
10 years’ experience managing multi-state payroll department, including staff.
Experience with Union and Non Union Payroll management
Working knowledge of payroll best practices.
Strong knowledge of federal and state regulations.
Strong PC skills including proficiency in Excel.
Working Knowledge of Accounting & Reconciliations
Strong work ethic and team player.
High degree of professionalism.
Ability to deal with sensitive and confidential materials
Strong interpersonal (verbal and written) communication skills.
Ability to communicate with various levels of management & employees.
Decision-making, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
Organizational, multi-tasking, and prioritizing skills.
Must be able to work well under weekly and monthly deadlines, quarter end and year end activities related to payroll, benefits and Accounting.

Nice To Haves

CPP preferred but not required.
Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred
Working knowledge of ADP –Vantage and Dayforce (preferred)

Responsibilities

Establish and maintain controls, policies and procedures for global functions of the payroll department.
Oversee the full payroll cycle globally for both union and nonunion payrolls across multiple time zones and countries.
Manage and guarantee weekly disbursement of global payroll, including Union and Non-Union payroll
Be primary U.S. contact with ADP/Dayforce to address changes and/or corrections needed.
Lead the implementation of global payroll systems to achieve efficiency, compliance and scalability.
Process taxes consistent with federal and state regulations.
Ensure all employees are being paid in accordance with federal/state/local wage and hour laws.
Maintains accurate local payroll tax rates in payroll database
Manage onsite and remote payroll teams, including global Shared Services payroll staff
Work closely with other departments such as HR Operations, Benefits and Finance/Accounting to prepare global reporting to align with shared goals.
Critically review and analyze current payroll and tax procedures to recommend and implement changes leading to best-practice operations
Communicate and coordinate actively with Management to ensure that cross-departmental impacts are identified (Human Resources, Benefits, Accounting)
Maintains corporate policies and procedures related to payroll and timekeeping activities.
Ensure systems are set-up and updated to reflect our current employee base, including wages, benefits, sick and vacation time in line with contracts (union and non-union)
Responsible for preparation of relevant management reports, including weekly, monthly, quarterly and year-end reports (gross payroll, hours worked, vacation accrual, tax deductions, benefit deductions, etc.)
Assist in all internal company and benefit plan audits
Prepare Audit schedules for annual Workman’s Comp audit
Review and approve all non-benefit payroll-related payments including Union Dues, PAC, etc.
Other duties as assigned.