Top Payroll Manager Jobs

Oversee payroll tax operations, supervise specialists, ensure accurate federal and state tax filings, manage reconciliations and liabilities, interpret tax regulations, support audits, and improve accounting processes. The role also manages employer registrations, workers’ compensation reconciliations, budget projections, year-end reporting, quality reviews, and staff development while maintaining compliance and confidentiality.

Manage end-to-end payroll processing for an assigned client portfolio, including tax withholding, employee enrollment, payroll tracking, state registrations, CalSavers compliance, workers’ compensation audits, reconciliations, and electronic deposits. The role independently handles client and state agency communications, maintains accurate payroll records, resolves discrepancies, coordinates schedules, supports audits, and assists with employee onboarding and training while maintaining confidentiality and regulatory compliance.

Manages end-to-end payroll processing for an assigned client portfolio, including payroll calculations, tax compliance, employee enrollment, state registrations, CalSavers administration, audits, reconciliations, and client communications. Maintains tracking systems, prepares payroll templates and schedules, coordinates workers’ compensation audits, manages mail and electronic deposits, and supports employee onboarding and training while safeguarding confidential information.

Leads district-wide payroll operations, systems, compliance, reporting, controls, and process improvement. Oversees payroll staff, ensures accurate and timely pay, manages tax filings, reconciliations, garnishments, audits, and regulatory reporting, and administers payroll, timekeeping, and HCM/ERP systems. Partners with HR, Finance, Technology, vendors, auditors, and government agencies while driving strategic initiatives, performance measurement, training, and operational improvements.

Leads Canadian payroll and tax operations for eight companies and 800 employees. Oversees compliance, internal controls, tax filings, vendor performance, audits, systems, process standardization, business continuity, and payroll-related projects. Partners with brand HR teams and external providers while managing and developing payroll staff. Ensures accurate, timely processing across a complex multi-province workforce, including expatriates, executives, incentives, and varied employee classifications.

Oversee multi-state, multi-entity payroll operations, including tax filings, state registrations, year-end reporting, variable compensation, payroll adjustments, and compliance. Manage workers’ compensation and unemployment insurance processes, monitor regulatory changes, resolve discrepancies, and partner with HR, Finance, and Accounting. Improve payroll systems, controls, and processes to support organizational growth.

Owns end-to-end U.S. payroll processing, tax compliance, reporting, reconciliations, controls, audits, and process automation across multiple jurisdictions. The role supervises a payroll specialist, partners with Finance, Accounting, HR, Legal, and Engineering, supports benefits administration and equity compensation tax processes, and ensures payroll accuracy, timeliness, and compliance. This in-office leader also improves payroll systems and prepares the function to scale efficiently.

Owns end-to-end U.S. payroll operations, tax compliance, reporting, reconciliations, controls, audits, and process automation across multiple jurisdictions. Supervises a payroll specialist and partners with Finance, Accounting, HR, Legal, and Engineering. The role also supports benefits deductions, RSU tax processing, payroll systems, and month-end close while ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payroll in a multi-state environment.

Owns end-to-end U.S. payroll, multi-state tax compliance, payroll reporting, reconciliations, controls, audits, and process automation. Partners with HR, Accounting, Legal, and technical teams on benefits, equity compensation, and systems improvements. Supervises a payroll specialist and ensures accurate, timely, compliant payroll operations across jurisdictions.

Owns end-to-end U.S. payroll operations, tax compliance, reporting, reconciliations, controls, audits, and process automation across multiple jurisdictions. Manages payroll systems including Workday Payroll and ADP SmartCompliance, partners with Finance, HR, Legal, and Engineering, supervises a payroll specialist, and may assume responsibility for equity administration.

Owns end-to-end U.S. payroll processing, tax compliance, reporting, reconciliations, controls, audits, and payroll systems. The role supervises a payroll specialist, partners with Finance, Accounting, HR, Legal, and Engineering, and improves automation and processes for scalable operations. Responsibilities may expand to include RSU settlement administration. This is an in-office position in San Francisco, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, or Boston.

Oversee accurate, compliant, and efficient multi-state payroll operations, including processing, payroll tax compliance, wage and hour requirements, reconciliations, deductions, garnishments, benefits, and leave administration. Maintain internal controls, support audits, administer payroll and HR systems, improve workflows, document procedures, and partner with HR, Finance, employees, managers, and external auditors.

Manage end-to-end biweekly payroll for U.S. and Canadian employees using Dayforce. Ensure payroll tax compliance, audits, reconciliations, year-end reporting, garnishments, and timekeeping accuracy. Lead payroll integrations for acquisitions, improve processes and controls, manage payroll vendors and tax agencies, partner with People and Finance teams, and develop the payroll team.

Leads end-to-end payroll operations for a complex, multi-location workforce. Responsibilities include payroll processing, audits, reconciliations, regulatory compliance, tax and garnishment resolution, internal controls, reporting, system improvements, stakeholder collaboration, and management of payroll staff. The role requires ensuring accurate and timely payroll while driving process improvements and maintaining confidentiality.

Manage US and global payroll operations, audit payroll accuracy, oversee payroll tax filings and compliance, resolve state tax discrepancies, manage payroll audits, improve processes and controls, participate in system testing and enhancements, and support and train payroll staff.

Oversee outsourced domestic and international payroll processing across multiple countries, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payments. Manage payroll audits, taxes, reconciliations, GL entries, accruals, benefits, retirement plan funding, employee changes, reporting, and payroll system upgrades. Partner with HR, HRIS, Finance, and third-party providers to resolve discrepancies, standardize processes, maintain confidentiality, and support financial and compliance audits.

The Area Payroll Manager processes accurate and timely payroll for 2–4 hotel properties, including wage, salary, tips, deductions, off-cycle checks, reconciliations, audits, funding, reporting, PTO accruals, and labor reports. The role maintains payroll data, ensures compliance with labor laws and union contracts, supports workers’ compensation and 401(k) audits, and mentors management on payroll practices. Occasional travel between properties is required.

Manage global payroll accounting across multiple geographies and outsourced providers. Review payrolls, process payments, prepare journal entries, reconcile payroll accounts, monitor tax and labor compliance, support 401(k) administration and audits, analyze payroll costs, address employee questions, and assist with month-end close and corporate and statutory audits.

Lead multi-state payroll for 5,000+ employees across bi-weekly salaried and weekly craft payrolls; manage two payroll supervisors; ensure compliance with federal/state laws, union CBAs, and Davis-Bacon prevailing wage; drive process improvements, oversee tax filings and year-end W-2s, and partner with HR, IT, and Legal.

Manages payroll processing operations, ensuring accurate wages, tax withholdings, deductions, governmental reporting, and compliance. Coordinates payroll information between Finance and Human Resources, produces statistical reports, supervises and trains payroll staff, and resolves complex payroll issues. Requires strong communication, reporting, analytical, organizational, and decision-making skills, along with multi-state payroll experience.

Manage a payroll team to deliver accurate, on-time payroll per SLAs. Serve as payroll and systems subject matter expert, handle escalations and client communication, optimize workflows, ensure policy compliance, coach and develop staff, and support cross-functional initiatives and continuous improvement.

Owns end-to-end multi-state payroll processing for a national workforce, ensuring accurate and timely payments and compliance with federal, state, and local laws. Responsibilities include payroll audits, timekeeping reconciliation, payroll accounting entries, accruals, GL reconciliations, employee support, ACA and W-2 reporting, audit support, and payroll system improvements. Partners with HR, Finance, and Operations in a hybrid Miami-based role.

Manage payroll processing and reporting across multiple resort properties, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payroll operations. Maintain payroll and associate records, oversee timekeeping systems, prepare labor and tax reports, respond to inquiries and government requests, and coordinate with Finance, HR, Operations, and resort leadership. The role also identifies process improvements, supports compliance, and leads payroll-related activities in a hospitality environment.

Manages payroll compliance programs, internal controls, audits, regulatory monitoring, and risk mitigation across multi-state operations. Serves as the UKG Pro and UKG Workforce Management subject-matter expert, reviewing configurations, controls, reporting, system changes, and payroll anomalies. Uses AI and analytics to improve audits, identify exceptions, document compliance activities, and enhance operational efficiency while partnering with Legal, HR, Finance, Tax, Benefits, Operations, and Internal Audit.

Oversee accurate, timely biweekly payroll processing, timekeeping, deductions, tax filings, benefits contributions, reporting, audits, and W-2 preparation. Maintain payroll system changes, general ledger coding, licenses, and compliance with governmental, company, and union requirements. Supervise payroll activities, resolve employee and manager inquiries, support audits and testing, and monitor legislative changes affecting payroll.