Payroll Manager
$150kLHH
Corporate Payroll Manager
Location: Greater San Diego Area (onsite)
Compensation: $150K/year + DOE + bonus potential
A growing, multi-entity organization is seeking an experienced payroll leader to oversee and modernize enterprise-wide payroll operations. This newly expanded role will play a critical part in driving process improvements, supporting organizational growth initiatives, and establishing scalable payroll practices across multiple business units.
This opportunity is ideal for a payroll professional who enjoys transformation, process optimization, and partnering with executive leadership to build efficient and compliant payroll operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead payroll operations across multiple business units and legal entities
- Drive payroll process improvement and standardization initiatives
- Develop policies, procedures, and operational documentation
- Support payroll-related activities associated with company growth initiatives and business integrations
- Evaluate and optimize payroll systems and workflows
- Identify compliance risks and implement best practices
- Partner cross-functionally with HR, Finance, Operations, and executive leadership
- Lead change management efforts and promote adoption of standardized processes
- Help create scalable payroll infrastructure to support future growth
Qualifications
- 7+ years of progressive payroll leadership experience
- Experience overseeing complex, multi-entity payroll environments
- Track record of payroll systems implementation, optimization, or transformation
- Strong process improvement, workflow design, and documentation experience
- Ability to communicate effectively with senior executives and operational leaders
- Experience managing organizational change and influencing stakeholders across multiple teams
Preferred Background
- Experience in project-based, field-based, or decentralized workforce environments
- Exposure to certified payroll and prevailing wage requirements
- Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, integrations, or business consolidations
- Background centralizing payroll functions across multiple operating units
Why This Opportunity?
- High visibility with executive leadership
- Opportunity to create lasting organizational impact
- Significant influence over future payroll strategy
- Environment focused on modernization and process improvement
- Ability to shape systems, processes, and best practices from the ground up
- Growth-oriented organization with substantial expansion initiatives underway
Benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- Competitive PTO + Holiday Pay
- Retirement Plan
This is a rare opportunity for a strategic payroll leader to move beyond day-to-day processing and help build a best-in-class payroll function within a rapidly evolving organization
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Military connected talent encouraged to apply
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