The Vice President Payroll leads the Companys daytoday payroll operations function. Reporting to the Senior Vice President Accounting Operations this role drives process to ensure effective and efficient service delivery through timely and accurate payments distributions and withholdings. The Vice President Payroll ensures the payroll operations function supports compliance with local payroll regulations and collective bargaining agreements. This position also has accountability for accurate data and metrics for reporting auditing and monitoring purposes.
Responsibilities
- Manage of SpinCos Payroll utilizing SAP and supporting systems (e.g. TimeKeeper.
- Manage the preparation and dissemination of weekly and biweekly multistate payroll for union and nonunion employees.
- Ensure payroll processing of new hires temporary workers and terminations are accurate and timely.
- Communicate actively with Operations HR and Finance to review crossdepartmental impacts of the payroll process and financial posting.
- Ensure all applicable federal state and local taxes garnishments employee benefit contributions union dues etc. are properly withheld.
- Serve as liaison with other departments in the resolution of payroll issues.
- Partner with HR and benefits in aligning and implementing ongoing process improvement and best practices for payroll and benefits.
- Manage and act as subject matter expert for all payrollrelated systems.
- Perform payroll systems monitoring and auditing as required.
- Support management of mapping and automatic feed of payroll general ledger accounts such as taxes child support levies garnishments employee benefits contributions etc.
- Lead Team in providing quality service to the department and organization.
- Ensure that the operational activities and indicators of the team meet the expectations of the department and organizational strategic initiatives.
- Work with Operations HR and Finance teams in the planning implementation and evaluation of special projects.
- Promote adequacy of staffing and services for identified and assigned populations.
- Manage direct reports of staff within the department to accomplish results through onboarding training development performance management and recognition.
- Facilitate technology resources and tools to engage the team to work efficiently and accurately.
- Coach and mentor staff; assist in difficult situations when needed.
- Identify opportunities to standardize and/or create efficiencies in the delivery of services.
- Promote collaboration with all disciplines and improve communication and collaborative processes.
Qualifications :
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in business finance or related field and 12 years of relevant experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- A minimum of 10 years of experience managing payroll teams within large multistate companies including responsibility for and indepth functional knowledge of payroll time keeping systems internal/external audits issue resolution garnishments and research of payroll and wage/hour requirements.
- Experience with SAP Payroll or equivalent ERPbased payroll systems.
- Minimum 10 years of management experience with demonstrated ability to develop and mentor staff at varying levels.
- Experience in a specific area of Entertainment Payroll and Union/Guild Payrolls.
Additional Qualifications:
- Exceptional analytical leadership and communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate and influence across multiple levels of an organization.
- High attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy and transparency.
Additional Requirements:
Additional Information :
As part of our selection process external candidates may be required to attend an inperson interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversals policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race color religion creed gender gender identity or expression age national origin or ancestry citizenship disability sexual orientation marital status pregnancy veteran status membership in the uniformed services genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable law.
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Although youll be hired as an NBCU employee your employment and the responsibilities associated with this job likely will transition to SpinCo in the future. By joining at this pivotal time youll be a part of this exciting company as it takes shape.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime