1 Dir, Payroll Job in Bridgewater, NJ
Syneos Health Clinical is Hiring a Dir, Payroll Near Bridgewater, NJ
Description
Director, Payroll
Reporting Structure: SVP, Finance
Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.
Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring a wide range of talented experts together across a wide range of business-critical services that support our business. Every role within Corporate is vital to furthering our vision of Shortening the Distance from Lab to Life®.
Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know:
WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE
Why Syneos Health
- We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
- We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.
- We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.
Summary:
Directs payroll process in multiple countries, including effectively leading a staff of multiple direct employees (as applicable). Oversees the processing of payroll, which includes entry of new hires and terminations for a 30K multijurisdictional employee base payroll, special payments, garnishments, deduction changes, timesheet data collected from Time and Labor system, and other miscellaneous payroll data. Initiates, coordinates, monitors, and perform multiple critical financial processes and applies internal controls to successfully complete the US and Canadian payroll on a bi-weekly payroll cycle and ensures all employee information and pay data is recorded timely and within 99% accuracy.
Essential Functions:
- Leads the day to day US and Canadian payroll operations, including reviewing, approving, and processing employee data (new hires, changes, additional earnings, tax withholdings, garnishments, and benefit deductions) from the HR system of record to the payroll systems in each country.
- Ensures employee earnings and deductions are within 99% accuracy and in compliance with tax and legal requirements and Company established guidelines.
- Guides payroll staff operations and approves courses of action on salary administration, interviewing and selection, terminations, professional development, performance management and appraisals, job description preparation, and employee counseling.
- Engages and advises staff on administrative policies and procedures, technical problems, priorities and methods.
- Collaborates with cross-functional organizations like HR to streamline payroll changes and weekly information to improve payroll cycles and to reduce errors.
- Troubleshoots issues and errors, directly interfacing with HR, IT, Finance, and employees as needed to ensure timely resolution.
- Reviews and validates the Time and Attendance data extracted from the Time & Labor system to ensure hours processed for payroll balances to hours reported in payroll. Reviews and approves all unpaid time off and other related time reported adjustments (hours submitted late, corrections to hours reported, e.g., PTO vs. regular hours, etc.).
- Reviews and validates employees’ state and local tax initial setup for accuracy and in compliance with state and local regulations. Monitors subsequent changes due to employee address changes/relocations.
- Manages and enhances payroll processes, where necessary, to ensure accuracy of employee information that comes from the HRIS system for new hires and employee changes and ensures accuracy of updated changes in employee benefit options.
- Assists with government audits and workers compensation audits as needed. Responds timely to all payroll related tax notices and other governmental communications.
- Ensures all payroll-related documents are filed in compliance with requirements.
- Supports the General Ledger Accounting team with payroll journal entries, reconciling payroll related balance sheet accounts as required within the Company’s established deadlines.
- Routinely reviews and gauges the overall payroll team efficiency and pro-actively streamlines processes within the payroll team to reduce costs of payroll operations by developing, implementing, and maintaining workflows which reduce the need for exception (off-cycle) payroll manual payments.
- Provides subject matter expertise to the Company’s internal customers, such as HR and Tax, in payroll tax law, compliance under FLSA, fringe benefits under the various country regulations, withholding and reporting rules for employer-provided benefits, state wage hour law, determination of taxable and nontaxable compensation, and federal and state laws governing employer responsibilities for unemployment taxation.
- Ensures all internal controls over the payroll process and related cash disbursement are maintained.
- Documents and maintains the payroll business day calendar and payroll work processes in the Company’s Payroll Service Desktop Procedures Manual.
Qualifications
Requirements:
- 4 Year Degree
- Significant payroll/HR/accounting experience with a large ERP system and payroll provider
- Extensive experience in a payroll/HR organization, including managing payroll/finance staff and multinational payrolls.
- High proficiency in Word, Excel, and other Microsoft Office Software, as well as, experience using ADP or similar payroll processing systems.
- Consistent attention to detail and accuracy
- Exceptional organizational, interpersonal and team building skills.
- Demonstrated track record of leading teams to perform tasks simultaneously and meet deadlines in a fast paced environment.
Get to know Syneos Health
Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000 Trial patients.
No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.
Additional Information:
Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.
Job Summary
Full Time
$155k-199k (estimate)
03/06/2024
06/02/2024
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