Payroll Supervisor/Manager - Hybrid Schedule

Talascend - Houston, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Houston, TX

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Payroll Supervisor/Manager is responsible for overseeing payroll processes and ensuring compliance with all contractual, fiscal, insurance, and social security formalities related to personnel management. This hybrid role involves managing a payroll team and interacting with various internal departments and external authorities, while also ensuring the timely and accurate payment of salaries and taxes for a population of approximately 3,500 employees across multiple regions including the US, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, and Guyana.

Responsibilities

• Manages the Administration of Payroll.
• Takes part in industrial relations meetings for aspects relating to own scope of activities.
• Partners to design and implement local/regional policies in alignment with Company pay policies.
• Ensures prompt and proper payment of salaries or fees, contributions, and taxes relating to personnel.
• Responsible for relations with tax authorities related to federal, state, and local tax notices, audits, etc.
• Provides opinions on pay, contributions, and fiscal aspects to the Company and personnel.
• Critically reviews and analyzes current payroll, benefits, and tax procedures to recommend and help implement changes.
• Ensures various systems are set-up and updated to reflect current employee base in line with contracts and compliance standards.
• Communicates actively with Business lines, HR C&B, and Finance departments to review cross-departmental impacts and reconcile data sharing.
• Responsible for the proper execution of all activities relating to personnel administration and Company pay policies.
• Responsible for data integrity in Payroll systems.
• Participates in payroll or time system implementation projects.
• Handles actual payroll processing responsibilities during team member vacations and balances workload during high activity periods.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree.
• 5 years of working experience in HR.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Planning and organizational skills.
• Fluent in English.
• Special Skills Required: ADP (enterprise, payforce, vantage).
• Payroll system change management experience.
• Workforce time system knowledge is a plus.
• Must have lead/manager/team management experience.
• Leadership Experience 5+ years.
• Experience working in a shared services environment is a plus.
• Spanish speaking is a plus.
• SAP experience is a plus.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working in a shared services environment is a plus.
• Spanish speaking is a plus.
• SAP experience is a plus.