Director, Payroll at U.S. Renal Care, Inc.
United States
<br><STRONG>Responsibilities</STRONG><br><br><div><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';">USRC's greatest strength in being a leader in the dialysis industry is our ability to recognize and celebrate the differences in our diverse workforce. We strongly believe in recruiting top talent and creating a diverse and inclusive work climate and culture at all levels of our organization. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';">SUMMARY</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';">The<strong> Director of Payroll</strong> is responsible for overseeing the end-to-end payroll operations for the organization, ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant payroll processing. This role serves as a key leadership bridge between Payroll Managers and the Vice President of Payroll, translating payroll strategy into operational execution. The Director provides leadership, governance, and process discipline across payroll operations while driving continuous improvement, compliance, and service excellence.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';">Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties and tasks may be assigned.</span></p><ul><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';">Lead and oversee U.S. payroll operations to ensure accurate and timely processing of all payrolls.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';">Direct and support Payroll Managers in the execution of day-to-day payroll processing, audits, and issue resolution.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';">Establish, maintain, and enhance payroll operational controls, procedures, and standard documentation.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';">Partner with the VP, Payroll to execute payroll strategy, system optimization, and process improvements.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';">Ensure compliance with all federal, state, and local payroll laws and regulations, including wage and hour rules, garnishments, and reporting requirements.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';">Oversee payroll tax processes in coordination with Payroll Managers, ensuring accurate reconciliations, timely filings, and year-end activities (W-2s and related reporting).</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';">Review payroll results, exception reports, and reconciliations to identify trends, mitigate risk, and resolve discrepancies.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';">Provide leadership for off-cycle payrolls, special compensation, incentives, and retroactive pay adjustments.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';">Collaborate closely with HR, Accounting, Finance, and third-party vendors to ensure data integrity, system alignment, and service quality.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';">Serve as an escalation point for complex payroll issues, audits, and employee or leadership inquiries.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';">Support HRIS and payroll system implementations, upgrades, and integrations, including testing and change management.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';">Monitor service delivery and performance metrics to ensure payroll service level expectations are met.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';">Stay current on payroll legislation and regulatory changes and advise leadership on potential impacts.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';">Own wage and hour compliance across all payrolls, ensuring accurate application of federal, state, and local wage laws, overtime rules, pay practices, and recordkeeping requirements.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';">Lead payroll tax compliance oversight, including review and validation of tax calculations, filings, reconciliations, amendments, and year-end reporting to ensure accuracy and timeliness.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';">Serve as the primary payroll lead for internal audits, external audits, and regulatory reviews, ensuring audit readiness, prompt issue resolution, and sustained control effectiveness.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';">Establish and enforce robust internal controls and monitoring mechanisms to prevent, detect, and remediate payroll errors, compliance gaps, and financial risk.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';">Investigate and resolve complex payroll discrepancies, wage claims, tax notices, and agency inquiries, escalating material risks to senior leadership as appropriate.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';">Other duties as assigned</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';">Leadership and People Management</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><ul><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';"> Provide direct leadership to Payroll Managers and indirect leadership to Payroll Specialists.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';"> Coach and develop payroll leadership talent through performance management, feedback, and succession planning.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';"> Promote a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and customer service within the payroll function.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';"> Partner with VP, Payroll on organizational design, staffing decisions, and workload planning.</span></li></ul></div> <br><STRONG>Qualifications</STRONG><br><br><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';">Qualifications/Requirements:</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';">To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';">Requirements include:</span></p><ul><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';"> Bachelor's degree preferred in finance, accounting, business, HR, or a related analytical discipline; equivalent experience may be considered.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';"> CPP or FPC certification strongly preferred.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';"> 5--7 years of progressively responsible payroll experience, including multi-level leadership experience.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';"> Strong working knowledge of payroll operations, payroll tax, compliance, and internal controls.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';"> Experience with enterprise payroll and HRIS systems.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';"> Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and reporting tools (e.g., Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP).</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida sans';">Demonstrated ability to lead teams, manage competing priorities, and drive operational excellence.</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Benefit Details</span></strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">All Full-Time employees are eligible for the following benefits: <br />* Medical / Pharmacy <br />* Dental <br />* Vision <br />* Voluntary benefits <br />* 401k with employer match <br />* Virtual Care <br />* Life Insurance <br />* Voluntary Benefits <br />* PTO <br /> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">All Part Time employees are eligible for the following benefits:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;"> <br />* 401k with employer match <br />* PTO </span></p>
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