Payroll Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Corporate Payroll Manager

Location: Greater San Diego Area (onsite)
Compensation: Up to $150K+ 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.

Pay Details: $150,000.00 to $180,000.00 per year

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