Overview

This role will have two main responsibilities:

Located at our Corporate Headquarters, responsible for all activities and resources of the Payroll Department ensuring accurate payroll processing for U.S and Canadian employees. The Manager's time is spent planning, coordinating, and managing the payroll functions of the department and sustaining effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including auditors as well as state and federal agency.

Will be a key player in the Financial Planning and Analysis team providing support and development of controls, processes, financial reporting, annual budgeting, and monthly forecasting. This position provides support to various business units and senior management as allocated.

Responsibilities

• Ownership and accountability for U.S. and Canada payroll end-to-end operations, including payroll processes and procedures, audit controls, and consistent and accurate payroll execution.
• Ensure compliance, regulatory reporting and remittance, adherence to all requirements.
• Evaluate, develop, and enforce the use of audit tools which support the payroll process.
• Drive the creation and implementation of related processes and standardize work.
• Ensure the confidentiality and retention of payroll information and records in accordance with established policies.
• Develop and prioritize processes to improve the payroll experience for employees; drive projects to create efficiencies, improve quality of service delivery, and increase customer satisfaction.
• Develop and conduct payroll related training for employees and effectively communicate changes regarding the payroll system.
• Develop and implement department policies, procedures, and process improvements to maintain the quality, efficiency, and overall effectiveness.
• Business segment financials, analyze and report Americas actual financial results, budgets, forecasts and strategic plans.
• Annual budget and rolling forecasting process for income statement. Including establishing actions to meet company’s short and long-term financial objectives.
• Assist in the preparation of the monthly financial reporting package, as well as other dashboards, charts and presentations reflecting financial and non-financial results.
• Support executive and leadership meeting agendas including preparation, maintenance, and development of KPI targets, dashboards and variance analysis.
• Develop and implement financial reporting and controls in new business segments.

Qualifications

• Ideal credentials should include an undergraduate degree in Accounting or Finance.
• MBA, CPA or equivalent, a plus.
• At least 7 years of experience in Accounting and/or Finance. Technical knowledge, credentials or licensing required including a working knowledge of ADP (WorkforceNow) and Kronos or similar software application.
• Previous experience of day-to-day American payroll operations is required
• Strong analytical skills, decisive and bottom line oriented
• Advanced Microsoft Excel
• ERP Systems, JDEdwards and DB2 experience a plus.
• Hyperion Essbase, Planning, Reports and Analysis experience a plus

COMPETENCIES & SKILLS

• Strong interpersonal skills with the proven ability to build and maintain relationships and communicate professionally to all levels of an organization.
• Ability to work independently with a high sense of urgency to meet deadlines. Strong organizational and time-management skills
• Demonstrates high ethical behavior with unquestionable integrity and character.
• Initiatives to improve processes and continuous improvement.
• Working knowledge of federal and state employment guidelines.
• Leadership presence; capable of engendering the trust and confidence of all elements of the workforce.
• Ability to ask “tough questions” and challenge the business assumptions and results to identify risk opportunities in business forecast, budget or actual results.

EEO Statement

Stryten Energy is an equal opportunity employer where an applicant's qualifications are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other basis prohibited by law.

About Statement

Stryten Energy helps solve the world’s most pressing energy challenges with a broad range of energy storage solutions across the Essential Power, Motive Power, Transportation, Military and Government sectors. Headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, we partner with some of the world’s most recognized companies to meet the growing demand for reliable and sustainable energy storage capacity. Stryten powers everything from submarines to subcompacts, microgrids, warehouses, distribution centers, cars, trains and trucks. Our stored energy technologies include advanced lead, lithium and vanadium redox flow batteries, intelligent chargers and energy performance management software that keep people on the move and supply chains running. An industry leader backed by more than a century of expertise, Stryten has The Energy to Challenge the status quo and deliver top-performing energy solutions for today and tomorrow. Learn more at stryten.com.