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Senior Payroll Specialist

Nouryon


Job Location:

Houston, TX - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 29 September 2026 (Yesterday)
Application Deadline: 27 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Senior Payroll Specialist North America

At Nouryon our global team takes positive action every day to reach higher collectively and individually. We create innovative and sustainable solutions for our customers to answer societys needs today and in the future.

We are looking for a Senior Payroll Specialist with strong multi-state payroll experience who enjoys solving complex payroll issues taking ownership and identifying opportunities to improve processes. Does that sound like you

About the job

As Senior Payroll Specialist North America you will play a key role in delivering accurate timely and compliant payroll for approximately 1600 employees across the United States and Canada. You will join a lean collaborative payroll team and work closely with HR Operations Finance Benefits HR Technology and other internal partners.

In your future role as Senior Payroll Specialist North America you will:

  • Support the end-to-end payroll process for approximately 1600 employees across North America including hourly and salaried union and non-union populations and multiple payroll frequencies.
  • Process and review complex payroll transactions and reconcile payroll reports ensuring payroll is accurate timely and compliant with applicable requirements.
  • Investigate and resolve complex payroll time and attendance and employee data discrepancies taking ownership of issues through resolution.
  • Partner closely with HR Operations Finance Benefits HR Technology and our third-party payroll provider to maintain data integrity and resolve payroll-related inquiries.
  • Support payroll compliance audits year-end activities reporting internal controls and documentation of payroll procedures and processes.
  • Analyze payroll processes and metrics identify opportunities for continuous improvement and proactively recommend solutions that improve accuracy efficiency and service delivery.

We believe you bring

  • Strong hands-on experience managing multi-state payroll in a large or complex organization including hourly and salaried employee populations.
  • Deep knowledge of U.S. federal state and local payroll regulations compliance requirements payroll reconciliation and complex payroll transactions.
  • Experience working with multiple payroll cycles and managing competing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced payroll environment.
  • A bachelors degree in Human Resources Business Accounting Finance or a related field or equivalent progressive payroll experience.
  • Strong analytical and reporting skills including advanced Microsoft Excel capabilities such as pivot tables VLOOKUP IF formulas conditional formatting and data validation.
  • Experience collaborating cross-functionally with teams such as HR Finance Benefits and HR Technology.

Great if you have

  • Experience supporting Canadian payroll and/or union payroll populations.
  • Experience with ADP GlobalView (GV) SAP Kronos Time & Attendance SuccessFactors Employee Central and/or ServiceNow.
  • Fundamental Payroll Certification (FPC) or Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) certification.

We believe you are

You are proactive and accountable taking ownership of issues and investigating discrepancies before escalating them. You bring strong analytical and critical-thinking skills with close attention to detail and a commitment to payroll accuracy.

You are also collaborative and comfortable working as part of a small team. You communicate effectively across functions bring ideas forward and look for opportunities to improve processes rather than simply following existing ways of working.

You are dependable organized and able to manage multiple priorities and deadlines with a sense of urgency while handling sensitive and confidential information with integrity.

Have we got your interest

This is a permanent position on a full-time basis reporting to the Payroll Supervisor North America and based in Houston Texas. This position is onsite five days per week.

Please apply via our online recruitment system. We will not accept applications via e-mail. Once its with us we will review to see if we have a match between your skills and the role! For more information about our hiring process visit: look forward to receiving your application!

We kindly ask our internal candidates to apply with your Nouryon email via Success Factors.

About Nouryon

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If youre looking for your next career move apply today and join Nouryons worldwide team in providing essential solutions that our customers use to manufacture everyday products such as personal care cleaning paints and coatings agriculture and food pharmaceuticals and building products. Our employees are driven by the wish to make an impact and actively drive positive change. If that describes you we will gladly make way for your ambitions. From day one we support you with your personal growth through challenging positions and comprehensive learning and development opportunities in a dynamic international diverse and proactive working environment.

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Nouryon is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability veteran status or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal state or local law.


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