Payroll Director
2 days ago
Columbia University seeks a highly skilled and experienced Payroll Director to lead and develop a team of payroll professionals responsible for ensuring accurate and timely processing of payroll for over 34,000 employees. The successful candidate will have a strong background in payroll accounting and operations, with a minimum of eight years of experience in a leadership role overseeing large-scale payroll operations.
Key Responsibilities- Lead and develop a team of eight team members responsible for payroll operations and payroll accounting functions.
- Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations, including tax reporting and filings.
- Ensure compliance with university policies, procedures, and collective bargaining agreements.
- Oversee payroll operations and accounting, ensuring accurate and timely processing of payroll.
- Collaborate with the Human Resource Processing Center (HRPC) and Columbia University Information Technology (CUIT) on system enhancements and upgrades.
- Support various internal and external audits and ensure timely implementation of proposed recommendations.
- Establish operational protocol and analyze/recommend payroll system setups required for new benefits and/or new collective bargaining agreements.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement and lead the design and implementation of enhancements.
- Develop payroll training materials and provide ongoing guidance to school and department administrators.
- Manage relationships with vendors (ADP and Experian) who provide key payroll outsourced services.
- Lead and mentor the payroll team, providing guidance, training, and development opportunities.
- Develop data-driven metrics to monitor payroll team performance and dashboards for senior leadership.
- Participate in special projects from time to time and lead payroll-specific tasks.
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field.
- Minimum of eight years of experience in payroll accounting and operations, with at least five years in a leadership role overseeing large-scale payroll operations.
- Extensive knowledge of large ERP payroll systems and software (preferably Peoplesoft Payroll module).
- Strong understanding of federal, state, and local payroll regulations and compliance requirements.
- Experience in a large, complex academic or research environment a plus.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel) essential, along with a demonstrated ability to prepare reports, summaries, and analyses and present findings and recommendations.
- Demonstrated planning and project management skills required, as well as a demonstrated ability to collect and analyze data and evaluate information.
- Strong leadership and team management abilities required.
- Must be detail-oriented with strong organizational and problem-solving skills, and have the ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously, working with diplomacy and efficiency in a high-pressure, short-deadline environment.
- Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills, including active listening skills, plus the ability to work closely and effectively with a diverse group of University administrators, characterized by strong consensus building and relationship building skills.
Columbia University is one of the world's most important centers of research and a distinctive and distinguished learning environment for undergraduates and graduate students in many scholarly and professional fields. The University recognizes the importance of its location in New York City and seeks to link its research and teaching to the vast resources of a great metropolis.
Columbia is one of the top academic and research institutions in the world, conducting path-breaking research in medicine, science, the arts, and the humanities. It includes three undergraduate schools, thirteen graduate and professional schools, a world-renowned medical center, four affiliated colleges and seminaries, twenty-five libraries, and more than one hundred research centers and institutes.
Columbia can claim 86 Nobel Laureates as well as over 380 new inventions each year. Columbia is rated in the top 10 of private employers in NYC, and minorities make up 45% of faculty and staff. We are committed to attracting and retaining the best and brightest in the workforce to support our mission of excellence in higher education and research.
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