Senior Manager Payroll

What does a Senior Manager Payroll do at Swire Coca-Cola?

The Senior Manager, Payroll provides enterprise leadership over payroll operations, systems, and controls within a Dayforce managed services environment, with a focus on ensuring accurate, compliant, and scalable payroll processes while thoughtfully evaluating upstream and downstream impacts across HR, Finance, Compliance, and Reporting. This role requires a highly detail-oriented, process-driven, and strategic leader who excels at anticipating second- and third-order effects when implementing policy, system, or process changes. The ideal candidate brings a structured, methodical approach to problem-solving, strong technical, analytical, documentation, and communication skills, and the ability to work independently while partnering closely with cross-functional stakeholders in an outcome-driven environment.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee and support end-to-end payroll operations within a Dayforce managed services environment, including processing, reporting, reconciliations, and issue resolution
• Ensure compliance with all applicable wage and hour laws, tax regulations, and employment standards across multiple states and jurisdictions, including management of payroll-related audits, tax filings, and regulatory inquiries
• Identify, mitigate, and prevent payroll risks by establishing and maintaining strong internal controls, including segregation of duties, approvals, exception handling, remediation, and audit readiness, while preventing fraud, errors, and unauthorized changes
• Design, standardize, and document end-to-end payroll processes to improve accuracy, efficiency, scalability, and auditability across the enterprise, including SOP development and control testing
• Develop and maintain payroll business continuity and disaster recovery plans to ensure operational resilience
• Partner closely with HRIS, Payroll, Finance, IT, Compliance, and Dayforce Managed Services to align payroll solutions with business needs and enterprise priorities
• Lead or support Dayforce payroll configuration, testing, validation, and parallel payroll testing, while evaluating upstream and downstream impacts across HR, benefits, time & attendance, finance, reporting, and system integrations
• Analyze payroll data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for process improvements, efficiency gains, and cost savings
• Support change management efforts to ensure adoption, consistency, and long-term sustainability of payroll process and system improvements
• Lead, mentor, and develop payroll team members by setting clear goals, driving accountability, and fostering a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement

Requirements:

• 7+ years of progressive payroll experience with enterprise-wide Tier 1 HCM platforms, including hands-on configuration and optimization required
• Experience leading payroll process improvements in complex, multi-state environments required
• Experience supporting payroll in complex employment states such as California, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington required
• Holistic approach to policy changes anticipating downstream and long-term impacts of system and policy changes required
• Experience supporting multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction, or high-volume payroll environments required
• Payroll compliance, internal controls, and audit considerations experience preferred
• Prior experience supporting short-term optimization or transformation initiatives within payroll preferred
• Cross functional partnership experience with Finance, Internal Audit, Benefit teams, etc. preferred
• Bachelor Degree in Business, Finance, or similar preferred

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