At Williams, we’re powering a cleaner, more connected future, and that starts with you. Here, your work fuels communities, drives innovation, and helps deliver reliable energy the world depends on. Join a Fortune 500 team that invests in your growth, values your contributions, and challenges you to make a lasting impact every day.
Do something that means something at Williams. This isn’t just a job - it’s an opportunity to explore and discover your passion with coworkers who become friends and mentors who push you to be your best self in and out of the office. At Williams, we make clean energy happen. And you can too, so bring your energy to ours.
You will lead accurate, compliant, and timely payroll operations for a large, multi-state workforce while overseeing and developing the team responsible for delivering them. In addition to payroll, you will partner with HR Operations on a variety of projects that will simplify and enhance the employee experience.
Your work will challenge you, and with our values to guide you, you’ll quickly learn and grow with us.
Responsibilities/Expectations:
- Leads end-to-end payroll operations, ensuring pay is accurate, compliant, and on time across all payroll cycles
- Leads and contributes to HR systems or cross functional projects reaching beyond payroll
- Maintains compliance with federal, state, and local payroll, tax, and wage-and-hour requirements, along with internal controls and audit standards
- Identifies and executes solutions to simplify, modernize, and/or increase the competitiveness of our pay practices
- Supports the configuration, testing and implementation of payroll and time-tracking system enhancements that improve the employee experience
- Streamlines processes, strengthen controls, and reduce manual work through automation and use of AI or other advancements
- Coaches, cross-trains, and develops team members, focusing on high performance, service-orientation, and business continuity
- Other duties as assigned
Education/Years of Experience:
- Required: Bachelor's Degree in Business, Human Resources, Finance, Accounting, or a related field or equivalent experience; 4 years of Progressive payroll, program management, and/or leadership
Other Requirements:
- Working understanding of multi-state payroll, payroll tax, and wage-and-hour compliance
- Demonstrated success leading projects and process improvements beyond core payroll
- Strong analytical skills, with comfort working across systems, data, and reporting
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Exhibits excellent organizational/interpersonal skills and deems safety an utmost priority
- Demonstrates aptitude and ability to embrace technology and applications to drive operational efficiency and streamline processes
Shift/Work Hours:
- Hybrid Schedule (4 days in office and 1 day remote)
Our corporate headquarters is located in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, the 2nd largest city in Oklahoma and the 47th most populous in the U.S.
Tulsa is known as the Mother of "The Mother Road" - Route 66, and boasts impressive art deco architecture, the #1 city park in the U.S. (The Gathering Place) and is a great venue for live music. It's an easy place to get in and out of, with more than 20 non-stop flight destinations offered at Tulsa International Airport. Tulsa is listed on CNN Travel's best destinations to visit in 2022!
Tulsa is not only a great place to live, but it's affordable. According to the 2019 Economic Report from Tulsa's Future, the cost of living is 8 percent below the U.S. average. There is no place like T-Town. Check out visittulsa.com to learn more!
We invest in our people in ways that actually show up in your day-to-day, not just on paper. Our Total Rewards are built to support how you work, live, and plan for what’s next.
Here’s a look at what that means:
- Strong pay plus an annual incentive program
- Hybrid work for most office roles, plus real flexibility in many field positions
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage with options that fit your life, not the other way around
- 401(k) with company match and an annual company contribution
- Paid time off, including company and floating holidays
- Paid parental leave (up to six weeks per parent), plus fertility and adoption support
- Advanced AI tools and resources to help level up and work smarter
- Clear paths to grow your career, with a strong culture of promoting from within
- Tuition reimbursement and support for continuing education
- HSA and FSA options
- Company-paid life insurance and disability coverage
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Domestic partner benefits
- Employee resource groups, wellness support, paid volunteer time, and company matching for causes you care about
Eligibility and benefits are governed by the terms of the applicable plan or program document which can be amended or terminated at any time.
For more information, please visit Total Rewards | Williams Companies.
Williams is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected under applicable discrimination law.
Education Requirements:Skill Requirements:
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Human Resources, Finance, Accounting, or related field, or equivalent experience
- 4 years progressive payroll, program management, and/or leadership experience
- Working understanding of multi-state payroll, payroll tax, and wage-and-hour compliance
- Demonstrated success leading projects and process improvements beyond core payroll
- Experience configuring, testing, and implementing payroll and time-tracking system enhancements
- Strong analytical skills; comfortable working across systems, data, and reporting
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Experience coaching, cross-training, and developing team members
- Aptitude to embrace technology and applications (automation, AI) to drive operational efficiency
- Exhibits excellent organizational and interpersonal skills and prioritizes safety
What We Do
Williams has been around for more than a century, but our work has never been more important. Our employees impact people’s lives every day, fueling the clean energy economy with large-scale energy infrastructure that connects natural gas supplies to markets with growing demand for cleaner fuel. We handle 30% of the natural gas in the United States that is used every day to heat our homes, cook our food and generate our electricity. Williams works closely with customers to provide the necessary infrastructure to serve growing markets and safely deliver natural gas products to reliably fuel the clean energy economy. With interstate natural gas pipelines and gathering & processing operations throughout the country, we reliably deliver value to our employees, investors, customers and communities by running our business with authenticity and a safety-driven culture, leading our industry into the future. Our employees are our most valued resource and the driving force behind our reputation as a safe, reliable company that does the right thing, every time. At Williams, we make clean energy happen. And you can too, so bring your energy to ours.
