Job title: Payroll Manager
Company: Ocean Spray
Job description: The Payroll Manager will oversee the organization's global payroll procedures, ensuring payroll is delivered timely, accurately, efficiently and in compliance with government regulations. Additionally, the Payroll Manager is responsible for auditing the entire payroll process, setting guidelines, developing, and ensuring that documentation of Payroll SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) is maintained and updated periodically.
To be successful in this role, the incumbent should have previous experience managing multiple payrolls schedules including international payroll processes. Must have excellent attention to detail and be a hands-on, working manager, with the ability and willingness to get involved in the details. Strong knowledge of the payroll function including preparation, balancing, internal control, and payroll taxes is necessary. The Payroll Manager will report to the Head of Global Total Rewards.
Position location: We're all about flexibility! This will be a hybrid role based out of our corporate headquarters in Lakeville, MA with Mondays & Fridays remote.
Additional responsibilities include:
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Team members, farmers, consumers and communities alike--we value what makes us unique and strive to connect our farms to families for a better life by living our values:
Expected salary:
Location: Lakeville, MA Apply Now
Company: Ocean Spray
Job description: The Payroll Manager will oversee the organization's global payroll procedures, ensuring payroll is delivered timely, accurately, efficiently and in compliance with government regulations. Additionally, the Payroll Manager is responsible for auditing the entire payroll process, setting guidelines, developing, and ensuring that documentation of Payroll SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) is maintained and updated periodically.
To be successful in this role, the incumbent should have previous experience managing multiple payrolls schedules including international payroll processes. Must have excellent attention to detail and be a hands-on, working manager, with the ability and willingness to get involved in the details. Strong knowledge of the payroll function including preparation, balancing, internal control, and payroll taxes is necessary. The Payroll Manager will report to the Head of Global Total Rewards.
Position location: We're all about flexibility! This will be a hybrid role based out of our corporate headquarters in Lakeville, MA with Mondays & Fridays remote.
Additional responsibilities include:
- Be a key strategic business partner to organizational leaders and teams. Partner and collaborate closely with HR, Legal, Finance, Treasury, Accounting, and HRIS to streamline payroll function and processes.
- Recommends best practices, develops, and implements changes to processes, procedures and workflows, leading to greater efficiency and accuracy throughout the payroll operations.
- Manage payroll discrepancies quickly and efficiently. Provides customer and stakeholder support for issues that arise and develops a plan for problem resolution along with mitigation of issues on a go-forward basis.
- Implements, maintains, and reviews payroll processing systems to ensure timely and accurate processing of payroll transactions including salaries, benefits, garnishments, taxes, and other deductions.
- Ensures accurate and timely processing of payroll updates including new hires, terminations, and changes to pay rates.
- Ensures appropriate withholding of federal, state, local and provincial income taxes and quickly addresses concerns when issues arise.
- Ensures all other deductions are taken and accounted for throughout the payroll life cycle; to include (but not limited to) benefits, 401k, garnishments, etc.
- Responds to and manages all inquiries relating to payroll and payroll systems; acts as the main point of contact for payroll and interacts seamlessly with key stakeholders and partners.
- Manages the team of Payroll Specialists through day-to-day activities, while providing guidance on activities and deliverables, strong focus on being customer centric, and providing growth and learning opportunities.
- Coordinates all activities relating to year-end bonus payments, executive comp payouts and other year-end activities impacting employees.
- Acts as a liaison between the organization and our 3rd party partners, to ensure all teams are aligned as it relates to payroll processing and related activities.
- Reviews employee union set up in partnership with HR.
- Prepares and maintains accurate records and reports of payroll transactions.
- Stay up to date with labor legislation and any changes in employee insurance and tax regulations.
- Communicate actively with department heads, HR and Finance to ensure proper compliance with internal and external policies and coding from a budgetary perspective.
- Manage regular preparation of relevant reports, including weekly, monthly, quarterly, and year-end reports periodic reports of earnings, taxes, and deductions.
- Performs other tasks/duties as assigned.
- Minimum of 5 years in Payroll, with 2-3 years of supervisory/leadership responsibilities
- Familiarity with Workday Payroll preferred.
- Strong knowledge of labor legislation and tax regulations
- A high level of discretion and integrity when handling sensitive employee information.
- Bachelors degree
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software.
- Strong process improvement skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment, with little supervision.
- Must be a customer-focused, results-driven leader with an emphasis on quality, detail, and accuracy.
- Strong interpersonal and organizational skills
- Ability to develop and deliver effective training to payroll staff.
- Excellent organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Complete insurance package on Day-1 that includes a plethora of health and wellness programs
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Health savings account
- Flexible spending account
- Life and accident insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Telehealth services
- Fertility benefits
- Transgender benefits
- 1:1 health coaching and more
- 401(k) with up to 6% Company matching; additional potential discretionary match at year-end
- Short-Term Incentive/Performance bonuses
- Flexible scheduling options
- Vacation pay, up to three weeks of time (pro-rated for your first year of employment)
- Holiday pay for 12 holidays
- Career development and growth opportunities
- Tuition/Education assistance programs
- Access to LinkedIn Learning
- Scholarship programs for children of employees
- Parental leave
- Bright Horizons Family Solutions Back-up care, tutoring, etc.
- Adoption assistance
- Bereavement leave
- Up to $300 fitness reimbursement
- Up to $300 massage reimbursement
- Employee appreciation events
- Employee discounts
- Charitable giving
You might have our iconic cranberry juice in your fridge or have gotten into heated holiday debate about whats better - canned or fresh cranberry sauce. But did you know that the hardworking people growing the superfruit in our products are 700 family farmers that own our cooperative? They entrust us with what is most precious to them to create new and innovative products that will delight consumers and grow this beloved brand today and into the future.
Team members, farmers, consumers and communities alike--we value what makes us unique and strive to connect our farms to families for a better life by living our values:
- Grower Mindset We embrace our grower-owners innovative spirit and heritage through confidence, learning and focus on the future.
- Sustainable Results Guided by purpose, we are focused on delivering results for our grower-owners.
- Integrity Above All We are ethical, doing the right thing for our grower-owners, customers, consumers and each other
- Inclusive Teamwork We build diverse and inclusive teams that strengthen our cooperative.
Expected salary:
Location: Lakeville, MA Apply Now