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Job Title: Manager, Payroll Operations

Description: Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Manage and guarantee weekly disbursement of multi-state payroll, including garnishments, benefits and taxes to 900+ employees consistent with federal, state and other wage and hour laws
  • Ensure the processing of new hires, temporary workers, transfers, promotions and terminations is accurate and timely
  • Supervise and provide training for payroll administrator
  • Critically review and analyze current payroll, benefits and tax procedures in order to recommend and implement changes leading to best-practice operations
  • Audit W-4s, payroll balance sheets, YTD earnings, etc.
  • Communicate actively with Operations, HR and Billing to review cross-departmental impacts and reconcile data sharing
  • Partner with HR and Benefits in aligning and implementing a more sophisticated payroll and HRIS system
  • Ensure systems are set-up and updated to reflect our current employee base, including wages, benefits, and PTO
  • Manage regular preparation of relevant management reports, including weekly, monthly, quarterly and year-end reports (gross payroll, hours worked, PTO accrual, tax deductions, benefit deductions, etc.)
  • Coordinates the payroll process with other departments and stores for the purpose of delivering services in conformance with established guidelines
  • Monitors assigned payroll activities and/or programs components for the purpose of ensuring effective department functioning, coordinating activities and ensuring compliance with established financial, legal and/or administrative requirements
  • Assists in developing and monitoring automated fiscal systems for the purpose of analyzing, maintaining and providing information regarding assigned funds
  • Follows proper records retention guidelines for payroll records
  • Supplies required information for establishing state unemployment rates
  • Serves as a co expert/witness in legal matters as they pertain to the company’s payroll practices

    Additional Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Must keep current on all changes in the laws as they pertain to payroll
  • Must prepare presentations for LLU on payroll
  • Must attend sufficient training/education classes to keep skills and CPP current

    Supervisory Responsibilities:
  • Yes Position supervises
  • 1 Payroll Coordinator

    Qualifications/Skills:
  • Demonstrate sound judgment by making effective decisions and being able to support decisions with facts
  • Self motivating to set and achieve challenging goals
  • Take responsibility for actions
  • Effective time management skills and completes tasks within desired timeframe and meets deadlines
  • Detail oriented
  • Ability to multi-task and work well in a fast paced environment
  • Team player
  • Attendance and reliability is extremely important in this position
  • Ability to use analysis to resolve complex accounting issues
  • Ability to work effectively with senior level staff
  • Ability to interpret contracts and state laws
  • Experience with interaction of payroll and taxation
  • Experience with the taxation of employees on visas working in the US

    Education and/or Experience:
  • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in accounting, finance or related field.
  • 7+ years of experience with multi-state payroll processing in a publically traded company
  • Prior multi-state retail payroll experience highly desired Company: Lumber Liquidators

    Contact: Patricia (Pat) Clapp

    Email: pclapp@lumberliquidators.com



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