Director, Enterprise Payroll

Job Summary

Reporting to the VP, HRSS, the Director, Enterprise Payroll is responsible for leading and managing the operations supporting the employee life cycle across the enterprise, multiple legal entities, multiple states, and multiple payroll systems.  This role is responsible for ensuring activities related to Payroll, HRIS Payroll Data Entry and other HR cyclical process are executed with professionalism, accuracy, and efficiency and within the rules and regulations of the regions in which The Heritage Group companies operate. The Director, Enterprise Payroll will lead THG payroll teams from its current state through an interim state of process improvement, role and work changes, system implementations, and stakeholder management to a future state with an employee-focused and on-demand service delivery model.  In addition, this role ensures the activities of the Payroll team support overall HR strategic priorities.

Essential Job Functions

40% Operations Management

• Manages the Viewpoint Payroll Manager and team, the PeopleSoft payroll team, and the enterprise tax analyst
• Manages systems and processes required to ensure accurate and timely production, distribution, and reporting of company-wide payroll, payroll tax management & reporting (federal, state, and local), year-end processes (e.g., W-2), garnishments, and unemployment compensation
• Builds and maintains a strong functional team through effective training, coaching, team building, and succession planning
• Ensures legal compliance by leading audit and reporting development and building an infrastructure of checks and balances
• Leads and project manages implementation of additional groups into payroll systems and services.  Balances the need for standardization with the needs of each business
• Fosters and maintains positive relationships with internal stakeholders and external parties such as vendors, state, local and federal agencies
• Proactively partners with HR leaders across business units and serve as the liaison with internal/external clients and functional teams to ensure effective delivery of HR Services
• Serves as an example and sets expectations for confidentiality and integrity

40% Process Improvement

• Assesses the current state of the PeopleSoft and Viewpoint payroll systems, pay practices, processes, and practices
• Inspires an environment of process improvement and business transformation
• Develops a plan for transitioning from the current state to an efficient, timely future state; prioritizes gaps and addresses timely
• Drives operational excellence of team by taking a deep dive into problems, owning end to end aspects of process improvements, and building processes/tools/system changes that scale to meet business needs
• Develops and implements clear service level agreements with metrics for core services and transactions across business units and tracks team's ability to meet expectations
• Influences and partners with HRSS leaders to meet payroll goals, HRSS process improvements, HRSS system changes, etc.

20% Change Management

• Collaborates with and influences internal and external clients on process changes that improve efficiency, employee experience, and compliance
• Inspires team and stakeholders on the long term vision
• Ties short term changes to long term benefits and long term HRSS strategy
• Finds win-wins

 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Human Resources, or similar field; and 10 years of relevant work experience 
• 10 years in a leadership capacity with direct reports, 5 years managing leaders
• Experience managing payroll for multiple businesses or entities OR experience with quantifiable results in business transformation
• Experience managing projects related to improving technology, processes, or efficiencies within a team
• Experience with top tier Human Capital Management or Payroll systems a plus
• MBA or CPP preferred

Relevant Experience and Skills  

• Strategic perspective of Payroll, including long term view and external insights
• Willingness to dig deep and get into the details
• Drive for accuracy and compliance
• Demonstrated experience in managing multiple priorities. Ability to work under pressure
• Project management skills
• Change management skills
• Ability to hold themselves and others accountable to high standards
• Courage to take initiative in unfamiliar or ambiguous circumstances
• Authoritative voice on payroll functions and processes
• Ability to gain alignment and to influence toward a common view across multiple stakeholders

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to effectively present new and complex information
• Strong organizational, analytical, and decision-making skills

• Ability to maintain confidentiality and the highest degree of integrity

About The Heritage Group

The Heritage Group is a privately held portfolio of companies focused on creating long-term value by building world-class businesses. Under four generations of family ownership, we employ thousands of people around the world, with operations across North America, Europe, and China, in the core industries of Environmental and Remediation, Specialty Chemicals, and Construction and Materials. Driven by innovation and research, our in-house R&D team, Heritage Research Group, specializes in helping our diverse set of companies evolve and adapt to a changing marketplace by providing cutting-edge solutions and exploring new opportunities in its state-of-the-art facility. And while acquisitions, partnerships, internal expansion, and startups may be our cornerstone, we're a family company at heart'aiming to build long-term relationships with our customers, vendors, and partners so that we can turn big challenges into even bigger opportunities to make a difference in the world.

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