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Payroll Director (Houston based)
- Location: Houston, texas 77042 - United States
- Job #: 11090
- Job Type: FA Direct Hire
Highlights:
– Strong compensation, including base, bonus, and equity
– Hybrid – In office Mon-Thurs
– Highly visible role-leading transformations, enhancements, and optimizations
Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic leadership over payroll operations for a large workforce.
- Ensure compliance with U.S. payroll tax regulations, with a strong understanding of tax implications and risk mitigation strategies.
- Drive payroll transformation initiatives, optimizing processes, systems, and automation for efficiency and scalability.
- Collaborate with Finance, HR, and IT to improve payroll workflows and ensure seamless data integration.
- Lead and develop a large, remote payroll team, fostering a high-performance and compliance-driven culture.
Requirements:
- Proven experience leading payroll for a large public company with union complexities and over 60 in the payroll group and over 40K employees
- Knowledge of Oracle HCM, ADP, and UKG (Kronos) payroll and timekeeping systems.
- Strong understanding of U.S. payroll tax, with the ability to assess financial impacts.
- Experience managing large, multi-state payroll teams, including remote workforce leadership.
- Ability to drive strategic payroll transformation, improving efficiency and compliance.
- In-office presence required in Houston Monday–Thursday (no exceptions).
- FPC or CPP certification required.
Qualified resumes to jdrake@talancegroup.com
and CALL JENNIFER DRAKE (713) 255-0571

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