
Payroll Manager
Required skills
- Payroll Manager
- Paylocity
- UKG
- CPP
- 10 years payroll experience
- 5 years payroll management
- Compliance
- Labor laws
- Tax withholdings
- Garnishments
Nice to have
- Accounting degree
- Business Administration degree
- Customer service culture
Role summary
Envision Unlimited is seeking an experienced Payroll Manager to oversee payroll processing and operations for multiple locations, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with all relevant laws and regulations. The role involves managing payroll systems (Paylocity/UKG), auditing transactions, preparing reports, and leading the payroll team. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 10 years of payroll experience, with at least five years in management, and hold a CPP certification. A Bachelor's degree in accounting or business administration is preferred. This position requires strong knowledge of payroll compliance, reporting, and team training, contributing to a positive customer service culture.
Description
Responsible for training and supporting the payroll team to ensure timely and accurate payroll processing, ensuring compliance with federal, state, local and benefits requirements and promoting an excellent customer service culture. Must have some knowledge of Paylocity/UKG payroll systems.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee payroll processing and operations for multiple locations, ensuring accurate and timely pay.
- Ensure strict and consistent compliance to labor laws, tax withholdings, wage orders, garnishments and year-end reporting.
- Set up and maintain functional payroll systems (Paylocity/UKG).
- Audit payroll transactions to ensure all amounts and payment dates are accurate.
- Reconcile and prepare reports for ledgers, journal entries, 5500s, overtime usage, retirement, attrition etc.
- Lead processing, accuracy and distribution of W-2 statements.
- Approve one-time or permanent changes in payroll (e.g. salary increases, tax deduction, bonuses).
- Approve all employee changes from the self-service portal.
- Train employees who are involved in payroll on best practices.
- Manage payroll discrepancies quickly and efficiently.
- Collaborate with Finance and HR to create payroll reports. Create and maintain all cost centers, allocations and new location codes.
- Monitor and audit payroll for fraud, abuse and waste.
- Prepare onboarding material to enable new hires and add union codes, exempt status and benefit hours, payroll policy, CID and Respite codes. Help new hires understand the company’s compensation and benefits policies (Orientation).
- Coordinate external audits (Work Comp. and 403B, 5500).
- Answer payroll-related questions from employees and supervisors
- Maintain records for insurance and benefit partners (Employees contributions, loans and employer contributions).
- Maintain system updates
Envision Unlimited offers competitive salaries and a generous benefit package to our professionals:
Blue Cross/Blue Shield Medical Coverage: HMO, PPO
Dental and Vision Insurance Options
Company paid Life and LTD Insurance
Voluntary plans (Pet insurance, AD&D, Life, Critical Illness, Short Term Disability)
11 Paid Holidays
Paid vacation, sick time and personal days
403B plan
In house training and CEU’s
Employee Assistance Network
Support for pursuing clinical licensure (financial and time off)
Opportunity for career growth & development
Envision Unlimited provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Requirements
Qualifications:
A minimum of 10 years of payroll experience
At least five years in payroll management
Must be a CPP (Certified Payroll Professional)
Bachelor’s degree, preferably in accounting or business administration
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