Payroll Manager

Position Title: Payroll Manager

Location: Remote – Must work East Coast hours (8:00 AM–5:00 PM ET)

Assignment Type: Permanent Hire

Compensation: $100,000–$120,000 + discretionary bonus

Work Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM ET

Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k)

Key Responsibilities

• Own and oversee the organization’s end-to-end payroll process
• Ensure payroll is processed accurately and according to established deadlines
• Review payroll prior to final processing and confirm appropriate approvals
• Oversee earnings, deductions, payroll taxes, overtime, bonuses, commissions, and benefits-related activity
• Manage payroll processing for new hires, terminations, transfers, promotions, and compensation changes
• Establish and maintain payroll calendars, procedures, checklists, and internal controls
• Review and reconcile payroll-related general ledger accounts
• Coordinate payroll accruals, journal entries, funding, and other accounting requirements
• Provide payroll information supporting financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and audits
• Partner with Human Resources on employee data, benefits, leave, onboarding, offboarding, and compensation changes
• Work with Operations to ensure accurate timekeeping, job information, attendance, and overtime reporting
• Serve as the primary contact for external payroll, payroll tax, timekeeping, and HRIS vendors
• Coordinate payroll system updates, integrations, upgrades, and implementations
• Serve as the internal subject matter expert for UKG payroll and timekeeping
• Maintain UKG configurations, workflows, deductions, earnings codes, and timekeeping rules
• Identify opportunities to improve automation, reporting, efficiency, and data accuracy
• Oversee payroll tax filings, reconciliations, payments, and year-end reporting
• Ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local payroll requirements
• Help build, train, and develop the payroll team as the organization continues to grow Pasted text Pasted text

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive payroll experience required
• Significant experience managing complex payroll operations
• Strong hands-on UKG payroll and timekeeping experience required
• Union payroll experience required

Experience within construction or a related industry with job costing, temporary labor, field employees, or similarly complex payroll required