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Job Description

The Lead Payroll will have primary day-to-day responsibility for processing payroll for 3,000+ employees. He/she will oversee a team of 1-2 team members and report directly to the Assistant Controller.

• Process semi-monthly payroll for 3000+ employees.
• Serve as the subject matter expert related to payroll rules and regulations within NYS and across the US.
• Highly knowledgeable in withholdings including payroll taxes, medical and 403(b) elections, garnishments, and other benefit deductions.
• Optimize and audit the payroll process to increase compliance and ensure accuracy.
• Maintain and improve payroll integration between the HRIS system and payroll processing system.
• Manage all employee changes and adjustments.
• Process benefits and employee information changes.
• Responsible for issuance of annual W2 statements.
• Manage employee inquiries via emails or internal tickets.
• Liaise with external brokers, vendors, and 403b financial advisors.
• Drive process improvements and innovation within the payroll process.
• Build relationships across the company and act as a business partner on payroll matters. Serve as a key partner to benefits, HR, FP&A and other accounting teams.
• Complete ad hoc projects including general filings, payroll reports, accounting support projects, audit inquiries, etc.

• Experience processing payroll in ADP Workforce Now; Workday preferred
• 8+ years of direct payroll experience.
• Must be collaborative, hands-on, results-oriented, innovative, and operate with the utmost integrity
• Knowledge of Federal, State and Local Laws including FLS
• Brings transformation experience and is a change agent
• Is a clear communicator with influential and effective interpersonal skills and refined emotional intelligence to enable building strong relationships;
• Thinks critically about the details of a task at hand
• Communication with stakeholders. Gears communications towards the target audience and employs negotiation and buy-in skills as needed
• Is a quick problem solver with the ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial, high volume environment;
• Intermediate to advanced excel skills strongly preferred, including multi-function formulas, pivot-tables, and formatting techniques