Senior Payroll Manager, North America

The Senior Payroll Manager for North America supervises payroll and time/attendance operations across the United States and Canada, ensuring timely and accurate payroll processing in compliance with regional laws and regulations. This role involves managing a team of payroll professionals and vendor partners, collaborating with HR, IT, Legal and Finance departments, and optimizing payroll systems and processes to support the organization's strategic goals. This leadership position should reflect and drive a demeanor of continuous improvement ensuring Emerson is achieving standardization of processes and setups across all entities and that operations are effective and efficient in their delivery. The Payroll Operations Senior Manager-North America will act as the expert with knowledge in all areas of payroll and time/attendance operations across the United States and Canada. We look forward to seeing your application

Preferred location: St. Louis, MO (willing to consider candidates located in other major cities near Emerson's main offices).

In this Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:

• Provide direction, guidance and coaching to a multi-country staff to ensure effective utilization of resources and timely and accurate delivery of payroll and payroll downstream processes and career development.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning and professional development within the payroll team. Identify training needs, provide opportunities for skill enhancement, and support career growth. Conduct regular performance reviews and offer constructive feedback to help team members achieve their full potential.
• Sets strategy and direction for US & Canada Operations in accordance with Global Payroll Operations & Global HR & country HR strategy initiatives and leads in the execution of key North America objectives and SLAs including developing and maintaining operational health metrics and driving adoption of case management tools.
• Ensure payroll processes align with federal, state, and local laws, including regulatory reporting, labor laws and tax obligations in both the U.S. and Canada. Stay updated on changes in payroll and tax regulations and implement vital adjustments to maintain compliance. Conduct regular audits to ensure adherence to compliance standards and address any discrepancies.
• Analyze current payroll practices and find opportunities for process improvements and automation specific to North American payroll and time operations. Drive initiatives to streamline processes, reduce errors, and enhance efficiency.
• Promote an internal customer service focus through effective leadership, supervision and development of staff. Address and resolve payroll-related issues and discrepancies promptly, ensuring employee satisfaction.
• Drive effective policy development, administrative oversight, responsiveness to customer needs, and timely communication across the organization. 
• Lead new payroll implementations, mergers, acquisitions & divestitures through the management and oversight of data needs and system configurations, driving standards in partnership with Digital HCM, HRIS, project teams and applicable vendor partners.
• Maintain efficient understanding of the software tools that are used to manage and maintain payroll, time/attendance and tax compliance.
• Recommend, supervise and keep controls surrounding the payroll, payroll tax and time/attendance functions as required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Internal Audit.
• Serve as critical issue support for payroll, tax and time/attendance related issues and employer liabilities for healthcare, retirement, pension information, taxes and other related items.

You adjust communication to fit the audience and the message. You establish and maintain customer relationships. You learn from new experiences and others, and from structured learning. You readily adapt to personal, interpersonal, and leadership behavior. You display a can-do demeanor in good and bad times. You take time to ask questions and define the problem and make learning a priority and a goal.

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Finance, Business, or related field
• Minimum of 10 years of related work experience, preferably in a fast paced multi-national payroll environment 
• Minimum of 5 years working in a leadership/project leadership role with a global team that works in a customer service or operational support function
• Experience with expatriates and executive compensation plans
• Legal authorization to work in the United States – Sponsorship for this role will not be provided  

• Experience with Oracle applications
• Experience with ADP applications
• Experience with mergers, acquisitions and divestitures
• Certified Payroll Professional (CPP)

Our Culture & Commitment to You

At Emerson, we prioritize a workplace where every employee is valued, respected, and empowered to grow. We foster an environment that encourages innovation, collaboration, and diverse perspectives—because we know that great ideas come from great teams. Our commitment to ongoing career development and growing an inclusive culture ensures you have the support to thrive. Whether through mentorship, training, or leadership opportunities, we invest in your success so you can make a lasting impact. We believe diverse teams, working together are key to driving growth and delivering business results. 

We recognize the importance of employee wellbeing. We prioritize providing flexible, competitive benefits plans to meet you and your family's physical, mental, financial, and social needs. We provide a variety of medical insurance plans, with dental and vision coverage, Employee Assistance Program, 401(k), tuition reimbursement, employee resource groups, recognition, and much more. Our culture offers flexible time off plans, including paid parental leave (maternal and paternal), vacation and holiday leave.

Our compensation philosophy is simple: we pay a competitive base salary, within the local market in which we operate, and reward performance during our annual merit review process. The salary range for this role is $120,000 - $170,000 annually, commensurate with the skills, talent, capabilities, and experience each candidate brings to a role.

This position will be open for a minimum of 7 days from the day of posting.  Applicants are encouraged to apply early to receive optimal consideration. In compliance with the Colorado Job Application Fairness Act, in any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Work Authorization

Emerson will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1 (including those with OPT or CPT), H-1, H-2, L-1, B, J or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible.

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