Overview
Are you a payroll professional who enjoys solving complex payroll challenges, improving processes, and ensuring payroll accuracy?
We're seeking a Senior Payroll Technology & Governance Analyst to serve as the operational expert between payroll operations, HRIS, and external payroll providers. This is an opportunity to lead payroll governance initiatives, validate payroll accuracy, improve vendor performance, and support enterprise payroll technology in a highly collaborative environment.
What You'll Do
- Lead payroll validation and governance efforts.
- Review payroll calculations for accuracy and compliance.
- Manage payroll vendor performance and issue resolution.
- Support payroll system testing and implementations.
- Perform payroll reconciliations and root cause analysis.
- Collaborate with Payroll, HRIS, HR, Finance, and vendors.
- Validate year-end payroll reporting.
- Recommend continuous process improvements.
What You Bring
- 8+ years of payroll experience.
- Strong knowledge of payroll operations and compliance.
- Experience with enterprise payroll systems.
- Advanced Excel skills.
- Strong analytical and reconciliation abilities.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Multi-state payroll experience; Canadian payroll exposure is a plus.
Why Consider This Opportunity
- Highly visible strategic role.
- Opportunity to influence payroll operations.
- Complex, challenging work.
- Cross-functional leadership exposure.
- Career growth in payroll technology and governance.
Job Skills
- Payroll operations and governance
- Payroll system validation
- Payroll calculations and reconciliations
- Vendor management
- UKG or enterprise payroll systems
- Multi-state payroll
- Canadian payroll (T-4)
- Payroll tax fundamentals
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Root cause analysis
- Process improvement
- Data analysis
- Advanced Microsoft Excel
- HRIS collaboration
- Payroll auditing
- Communication and stakeholder management
- Project coordination
- Problem-solving
- Regulatory compliance
Job Education
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Information Systems, or related field
- Equivalent combination of education and payroll experience considered
- CPP certification preferred or willingness to obtain within 12 months
Job Responsibilities
- Serve as the operational liaison between payroll operations and payroll vendor.
- Manage vendor performance, accountability, and service delivery.
- Validate payroll calculations, earnings, deductions, taxes, and net pay.
- Perform manual payroll calculations to verify system accuracy.
- Investigate payroll discrepancies and determine root cause.
- Support payroll testing, upgrades, implementations, and UAT.
- Validate payroll system configurations before deployment.
- Coordinate with HR, HRIS, Finance, Payroll Tax, and vendors.
- Support multi-state and Canadian payroll processes.
- Validate year-end payroll reporting including W-2, W-2C, and T-4.
- Identify operational improvements and vendor process enhancements.
- Provide payroll expertise to internal stakeholders.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- Minimum 8 years of payroll experience.
- Experience managing outsourced payroll vendors.
- Multi-state payroll experience.
- Exposure to Canadian payroll.
- Strong payroll calculations knowledge.
- Advanced Excel skills.
- Experience with enterprise payroll systems (UKG, SAP, ADP, Workday, etc.).
- Experience performing payroll reconciliations.
- Strong analytical and communication skills.
Job Experience
- 8+ years payroll operations
- Payroll governance
- Payroll technology
- Payroll vendor management
- UKG preferred
- Payroll system testing
- Payroll implementations
- Payroll audits
- Payroll reconciliation
- HRIS collaboration
- Multi-state payroll
- Canadian payroll
- Payroll compliance
Pay: $133,000.00 - $145,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
