Payroll Manager

Ensuring Chart’s Success…

The Chart Business Services (CBS), The North America’s Payroll Manager leads, supports, and mentors the Payroll Shared Service Center team that is responsible for payroll operations, payroll tax, and payroll accounting activities for numerous North American entities in the US, Canada and Mexico that operate with multiple payroll frequencies. The ideal candidate is analytical and methodical, with experience in Ceridian Dayforce payroll administration with a deep knowledge of payroll tax activities and transactions with Ceridian tax services.

What Your Day-to-Day Activities Will Be…

•    Manage and develop team members and their assignment of work to successfully accomplish the Payroll Shared Services objectives.
•    Proactively monitor internal controls to ensure that payroll functions are executed to support Charts policies and procedures.  
•    Monitor and confirm that all controls are functioning as designed and facilitate audit/testing of control requirements. 
•    Creates Ceridian Dayforce ad hoc reporting to support multiple workstreams and functions.
•    Performs detailed reconciliations for internal and external audits.
•    Responsible for analysis of payroll or employee data-related entries that impact the accuracy of payroll, tax withholding, or payroll reporting. Helps identify drivers for these abnormalities, research, analyses, and documents as well as propose corrective action(s).
•    Responsible for documenting, monitoring, and resolving agency tax notices/tracers with Ceridian tax services & government agencies, as well as validating all agency responses.
•    Manages and/or performs payroll tax transactions with Ceridian tax services and coordinates internal processes to ensure accuracy, compliance, and timely filing & reporting to government authorities.
•    Researches and remains current with tax compliance laws and regulations, provides payroll tax awareness of the changes, and provides appropriate recommendations.
•    Manages Inpatriate and Expatriate payroll services related to tax equalization and settlement, tax reporting, coordination of shadow payrolls, and coordination of efforts with host and home country business partners.  Collaborates with the global mobility partner as needed.
•    Responsible for compliance with all payroll tax regulations, review/confirm timely complete, and accurate deposits and filings, Quarterly and Annual reconciliations, and all other tax reporting requirements.
•    Monitor to ensure timely and accurate payroll general ledger entries and reconciliations meet the requirements of Chart’s accounting month-end close. 
•    Facilitate various vendor partnerships and the exchange of applicable inbound/outbound information that includes complex rules and calculations. Includes payroll provider services (tax, wage garnishment, wage payment, UI, etc.), benefits providers, 401k providers, global 
      mobility partners, etc. 
•    Ensure payroll processes are documented and up to date in the SOP (standard operating procedure) library.

Your Education Should Be…

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field (accounting, business, etc.) 
• CPP designation preferred

Your Professional Experience Should Be…

• Minimum 7 years of payroll management experience in a shared service center environment
• Required-Experience with Ceridian Dayforce payroll system 
• Required-Experience with Ceridian tax services
• Experience with advanced technology and complex data interfaces between systems.

Chart is an equal opportunity employer