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The Payroll Manager leads and actively contributes to enterprise payroll operations, ensuring accurate, compliant, and timely payroll processing for all employees. This role is ideal for a hands-on leader who thrives in the details, can navigate complex payroll challenges, and is passionate about continuously improving processes while maintaining the highest level of confidentiality.
Responsibilities- Lead, coach, and develop the payroll team by setting clear expectations, delegating effectively, and ensuring timely, accurate payroll processing
- Take a hands-on approach to payroll operations, including troubleshooting systems and resolving complex payroll issues
- Manage and optimize payroll systems, including Oracle Cloud Payroll and Labor Management Systems, identifying root causes and implementing sustainable solutions
- Partner with the People team to analyze payroll trends and recommend process improvements that enhance efficiency and accuracy
- Prepare, audit, and reconcile payroll reports and statements with a strong focus on compliance
- Maintain and update payroll policies and procedures, ensuring alignment with union agreements and regulatory requirements
- Stay current on federal, state, and local payroll laws, applying updates to processes as needed
- Travel up to 20% to support on-site payroll operations, training, and issue resolution
- Perform additional duties as assigned
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree or Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) certification
- 4 or more years of experience processing in-house payroll for a multi-state organization with 1,000+ employees, including union populations
- Strong experience in payroll problem-solving, systems troubleshooting, and process improvement
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities in a detail-oriented environment
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated success leading teams in a fast-paced environment
- In-depth knowledge of federal, state, and local payroll regulations
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate across all levels of the organization
- High level of accuracy, discretion, and confidentiality
Base Pay Information
The national base pay range at the end is a good-faith estimate of what Delta Dental may pay for new hires. Actual pay may vary based on Delta Dental’s assessment of the candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), related experience, education, certifications, and ability to meet required minimum job qualifications. Other factors impacting pay include prevailing wages in the work location and internal equity.
Pay Grade 22. $93,400 - $202,404.
- Competitive base and incentive pay
- 401(k) with robust matching and non-matching contributions
- Rich medical & pharmacy benefits
- 100% employer-paid dental and vision benefits
- Holistic wellbeing program with deep financial incentives
- Generous paid time off plus 12 paid holidays and your birthday off
- Culture of growth and learning: career development; tuition reimbursement; recognition program
- Family support: adoption assistance, fertility treatment, child, elder & pet care assistance
- Social responsibility and volunteer opportunities
- Employee discount program
Delta Dental Insurance Company Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Delta Dental Insurance Company and has not been reviewed or approved by Delta Dental Insurance Company.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a standout element, including a sizable automatic 401(k) contribution plus additional matching. This boosts overall total-rewards value even when base pay is viewed as only mid-market in some areas.
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Affordable Benefits — Core coverage is framed as unusually low-cost to employees, including fully employer-paid dental and vision and low employee contribution medical options. This creates meaningful take-home value beyond cash compensation.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are described as generous, including broad PTO/holidays and additional paid leave features such as parental leave. These policies increase perceived rewards and help balance workload demands.
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What We Do
At Delta Dental, we’re behind millions of smiles and counting. For over 68 years, we’ve served our communities by increasing access to affordable, quality care – but that commitment to care extends beyond the people we serve, to the dedicated employees who make those smiles genuine. We've come this far by building programs that offer opportunities for advancement, create meaningful connections, and improve the lives of our employees and their families. Because we know that when we take exceptional care of each other, we can make a positive impact for all. We champion an inspirational workplace through our commitment to trust, service, excellence and innovation. Joining us means working for a company that offers stability and balance, opportunities for leadership at all levels, and a work environment. Delta Dental of California, Delta Dental of New York, Inc., Delta Dental of Pennsylvania, and Delta Dental Insurance Company are members, or affiliates of members, of the Delta Dental Plans Association, a network of 39 Delta Dental companies throughout the country. Together with our affiliate companies, form one of the nation’s largest dental benefits delivery systems, covering over 31 million enrollees. Headquartered in San Francisco, we are members of the Delta Dental Plans Association, a network of companies that provides dental coverage to 80 million people. Delta Dental provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Delta Dental complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
