The Role
Leads total rewards strategy and teams across compensation, benefits, payroll, and HR compliance. Oversees multi-state payroll for more than 1,000 employees, compensation programs, incentive plans, benefits administration, audits, reporting, tax compliance, 401(k) monitoring, and payroll system improvements. Partners with HR, Finance, Operations, Billing, and senior leadership to improve processes, maintain legal compliance, control costs, and support employee engagement.
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Job Summary & Responsibilities
Summary/Objective: The Sr. Director of Total Rewards is a critical role across RJW, that will develop and lead initiatives across compensation and benefits, payroll, and HR compliance. In this role, the Sr. Director of Total Rewards will be responsible for ensuring competitiveness while maintaining cost efficiency, associate engagement, aligned with long-term strategy.
Essential Functions:
1. Lead and supervise staff across compensation, benefits, payroll, and HR compliance to drive business performance, as well as comply with legal requirements
2. Manage weekly disbursement of multi-state payroll, including garnishments, benefits, and taxes to 1000 plus employees consistent with federal and state wage and hour laws.
3. Lead the annual performance review cycle, providing expert counsel on the design, development and administration of compensation programs, salary structures, and short- and long-term incentives and commissions.
4. Design, analyze, and manage reporting initiatives to review financial metrics aligning with budget, evaluate current processes, and opportunities to improve 5. Critically review and analyze current payroll, benefits and tax procedures in order to recommend and implement changes leading to best practice operations.
6. Resolve payroll questions and errors
7. Audit W4's, payroll balance sheets, YTD earnings, etc.
8. Communicate actively with Operations, HR and Billing to review cross-departmental impacts and reconcile data sharing.
9. Partner with HR in aligning and implementing a more sophisticated payroll and benefits system. 10. Oversee internal payroll and accounting audits.
11. Ensure systems are set-up and updated to reflect our current employee base, including wages, benefits, PTO.
12. Work with Controller on General Ledger.
13. Manage regular preparation of relevant management reports, including weekly, monthly, quarterly and year end reports (gross payroll, hours worked, PTO accruals, tax deductions, benefits deductions, etc.
14. Responsible for all 401k monitoring and work along with CHRO in annual audits to ensure we are compliant.
Competencies:
10+ years progressive experience in payroll required.
Experience with compensation design, including incentive, commission, structure, and executive compensation desired
Experience leading and developing teams
Experience developing associate benefits programs, including developing policies and administrative regulations
Visionary leadership with successful track record in creating and leading cross-functional initiatives related to Compensation and Benefit strategies, and process implementation
Demonstrated experience in the following areas: executive compensation, salary planning, incentive plans, market pricing, job evaluation, data analysis, research, and cost modeling
Strong collaboration skills with the ability to communicate vision and gain alignment with senior leaders, both internally and externally
Ability to influence, adapt and lead through ambiguity and change in a dynamic growth environment
Supervisory Responsibility This position manages all employees of the Payroll and Benefits department.
Work Environment This job operates in a professional office environment.
This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as laptop computers and smartphones.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell.
The employee must occasionally lift or move up to 20 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
Required Education and Experience Bachelor's degree and 4 to 10 years' related experience or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Preferred Education and Experience Master's degree in Business, or related field preferred.
Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals.
Ability to write letters and business correspondence;
Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from all groups of employees, customers, and clients.
Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
Computer Skills: To perform this job successfully, an individual must have advanced computer knowledge.
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk, use hands to finger, handle to feel; and reach with hands and arms.
Work Environment: This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.Employer Rights:This job description is intended to provide general information about the Sr. Director of Total Rewards position.
The above does not constitute an exhaustive list of the job duties to be performed by an associate holding the position of Sr. Director of Total Rewards, nor are the lists of the physical requirements and environmental conditions exhaustive. You may be asked by your supervisor or managers to perform other duties. Your performance will be evaluated in part based upon your performance of the job duties listed in this job description, as well as any job duties not specifically listed above that you may be asked from time to time to perform.
As with all positions, the duties and responsibilities are subject to change at any time as needs arise and at the discretion of the RJW Transport, Inc. The Company has the right to revise this job description at any time.
Employment-At-Will: It is the Company's policy that all associates, other than those covered by a written individual employment or labor agreement with the Company that has been authorized in writing by the Company's Chief Executive Officer or Board of Directors, are not employed for any fixed term and are employed at the will of the Company for an indefinite period.
Just as our associate's, reserve the right to resign their employment at any time for any reason the Company reserves its right to terminate an associate any time for any reason either with or without cause.
Neither this Job Description nor any of its individual terms constitutes commitments between the Company and its associates as to the terms, conditions or duration of employment, nor does it modify the prevailing Employment-At-Will relationship.
Compensation & BenefitsWe offer a competitive benefits package that includes health, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability, paid holidays, time off, retirement savings plan participation, and additional employee programs.Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree and 4 to 10 years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 10+ years of progressive payroll experience
- Experience leading and developing teams
- Experience developing associate benefits programs, policies, and administrative regulations
- Experience with executive compensation, salary planning, incentive plans, market pricing, job evaluation, data analysis, research, and cost modeling
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with senior leaders and cross-functional teams
- Ability to influence, adapt, and lead through ambiguity and organizational change
- Advanced computer knowledge
- Experience with compensation design, including incentives, commissions, salary structures, and executive compensation
- Master’s degree in Business or a related field
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The Company
What We Do
RJW Logistics Group is a leading retail logistics and consolidation provider that out-performs the market by bringing your product to the retail shelf on-time, in-full, and at a lower overall cost. We serve over 100 national retailers, delivering our customers’ products 98%+ OTIF on average, and offering compliance solutions that ensure you don’t experience fines and fees. Our full suite of in-house customer solutions and proprietary technologies streamline the supply chain process and simplify your retail efforts, including value-added services, asset-based transportation and warehousing, 99%+ inventory accuracy, automated dispute resolution, online traceability, trade show services, and more.
