Senior Manager – Payroll
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
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Payroll Administrator
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chicago • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $73,920 - $95,495 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
About the role
- Monitor and review the Administration of payroll for S&C's team members, ensuring accuracy and compliance with company policies and legal/tax regulations and ADP accuracy.
- Oversee the processing of the non-exempt payrolls. Assist in the event that complications arise.
- Act as the subject matter expert (SME) for all payroll-related issues at S&C, tackling problems requiring a deep understanding of the business and its systems.
- Lead new initiatives and problem-solving efforts, such as implementing new pay groups or addressing complex pay transfer issues for global payroll transfers.
- Act as a key liaison for implementing ADP integrations, suggesting programming specifications for pay rules, and ensuring all stakeholder needs are supported.
- Interface with third-party vendors such as Vanguard for filing purposes, ensuring seamless communication and compliance.
- Collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders, from leaders to vendors, to resolve issues and troubleshoot problems with the payroll system.
- Contribute detailed recommendations to leadership for improvements to payroll processes, pay policies, and analysis of how proposed changes will affect the business.
- Produce reports, both routine and ad-hoc, as needed. Utilize a deep understanding of the business and payroll function to understand information sources and produce accurate, value-adding reports.
- Partner with the Human Resources team to support various HR driven activities.
- Understand and comply with all applicable Company policies and rules.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Human Resources, a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of demonstrated experience acting as the primary administrator on a payroll team for a mid to large-size company, with particular experience supporting both an hourly-paid and salaried workforce simultaneously.
- Possess deep knowledge of ADP Payroll products, demonstrated by experience working on complex administrator functions such as integration project and creating new pay groups.
- Excellent knowledge of payroll best practices and compliance requirements, with experience auditing payroll documentation to ensure proper completion.
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to complete activities with accuracy.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with internal stakeholders.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality when handling sensitive information.
- Ability to work independently without supervision and hold oneself accountable for a diverse set of project and payroll deadlines.
- Strong coaching skills with the ability to review the work of other payroll team members and coach them on the standards expected in the function.
- Good accounting skills with the ability to produce financial reports and partner with Finance teams in support of overall company financial decisions.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office products including Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint, with the ability to compile information in Excel and produce payroll-related reports efficiently.
Benefits
- Health and Welfare Benefits: Medical & Prescription, Dental, Vision, Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Account (HSA), Group Life Insurance, optional Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance, Wellbeing Resources including Employee Assistance Program and Family Forming Benefits (i.e., Adoption and Fertility support)
- Leave Benefits: Vacation Time, Sick Time, Paid Holidays and Company Shutdown days, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, Other Leaves, Paid Parental Time and Military Leave
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) Retirement Savings and Employee Stock Ownership Plan (KSOP) offering traditional and Roth 401(k) options and an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) component; KSOP participants can receive annual ESOP company contributions of over 11% of eligible earnings (3% Core, up to 3.5% Match, Variable Periodic).
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
ADP Payrollpayroll administrationpayroll compliancepayroll auditingfinancial reportingintegration project managementpay group creationdata analysisreport generationaccounting
Soft skills
attention to detailorganizational skillswritten communicationverbal communicationconfidentialityindependenceaccountabilitycoachingproblem-solvingstakeholder management
