Payroll Compliance Manager

Payroll Compliance Manager is responsible for developing maintaining and monitoring payroll compliance programs and internal controls across the organization. This role ensures payroll practices comply with federal state and local wage-and-hour tax garnishment recordkeeping and reporting requirements. 

The Payroll Compliance Manager will serve as the payroll subject-matter expert for audits regulatory changes system controls policy development and risk mitigation. The successful candidate must have strong hands-on experience with UKG Pro and UKG Workforce Management and demonstrated proficiency using artificial intelligence tools to improve payroll auditing compliance monitoring data analysis documentation and operational efficiency. 

Responsibilities  

Payroll Compliance and Governance 

• Monitor compliance with federal state and local payroll laws including wage-and-hour overtime minimum wage final-pay pay-frequency meal and rest-period paid-leave tax and record-retention requirements. 

• Maintain a comprehensive payroll compliance calendar covering tax filings regulatory deadlines year-end activities audits reconciliations and policy reviews. 

• Research regulatory changes and translate requirements into payroll policies procedures system configurations and operational controls. 

• Partner with Legal Human Resources Finance Tax Benefits Operations and Internal Audit to address payroll compliance risks. 

• Review payroll policies and procedures to ensure consistent application across locations business units and employee populations. 

• Maintain documentation supporting payroll decisions regulatory interpretations and corrective actions. 

UKG System Compliance 

• Serve as a functional subject-matter expert for UKG Pro and UKG Workforce Management. 

• Evaluate UKG configurations to ensure compliance with company policies wage-and-hour requirements and payroll tax rules. 

• Review pay codes deduction codes accruals work rules overtime rules rounding rules holiday rules security roles workflows and approval controls. 

• Partner with Payroll Operations HRIS IT and UKG support teams to test and implement system changes. 

• Develop UKG queries reports dashboards and exception reporting to identify payroll compliance issues. 

• Validate system updates configuration changes interfaces and patches through documented testing and approval processes. 

• Maintain configuration documentation test scripts control matrices and system-change records. 

Artificial Intelligence and Payroll Analytics 

• Use approved AI tools to enhance payroll compliance audits exception analysis trend identification policy research documentation and process improvement. 

• Develop and maintain AI-assisted payroll audit prompts compliance checklists risk models and standardized review procedures. 

• Use AI and data analytics to identify anomalies such as duplicate or unusual payments excessive manual adjustments repeated missed punches unauthorized timecard edits and overtime anomalies. 

Qualifications :

• Bachelors degree or equivalent professional experience. 

• Minimum of 5 years of progressive payroll experience including at least 3 years in payroll compliance audit controls or payroll management. 

• Strong hands-on experience with UKG Pro and UKG Workforce Management is required. 

• Demonstrated experience supporting complex high-volume multi-state payroll operations. 

• Strong knowledge of federal state and local wage-and-hour and payroll tax requirements. 

• Experience performing payroll audits developing internal controls and resolving compliance findings. 

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills including pivot tables lookups data validation exception analysis and large-data reconciliation. 

• Demonstrated proficiency using generative AI and AI-enabled analytics tools in a professional payroll compliance finance audit or HR environment. 

• Strong analytical research documentation project-management problem-solving and communication skills. 

• Ability to handle confidential employee and payroll information with discretion.

Pay Transparency: $110k - $120k

Additional Information :

AS A MEMBER OF THE EQUINOX TEAM YOU WILL RECEIVE:

• We offer competitive salaries benefits and industry leading commission opportunities for club employees
• Complimentary Club membership
• Perks and incentives with our products and services including Personal Training Pilates Spa and Shop

This job description is intended to describe the general requirements for the position. It is not a complete statement of duties responsibilities or requirements. Other duties not listed here may be assigned as necessary to ensure the proper operations of the department.

Equinox is an equal opportunity employer. For more information regarding our career opportunities please visit one of our clubs or our website at your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Must have a legal right to work in the United States.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time