NAM Payroll Administrator
1 week ago
Job Description Summary
The Pay Administrator is responsible for ensuring payroll accuracy, compliance, and efficiency through comprehensive timekeeping administration, inquiry management, and payroll input support. This role serves as a subject-matter expert in payroll processes, guiding employees and people leaders to appropriate channels, promoting self-service adoption, and contributing to optimization and continuous improvement initiatives. The Pay Administrator partners closely with HR, Finance, and business leaders to deliver high-quality payroll operations while driving process standardization and efficiency.
Job Description
Pay and Timekeeping Administration
- Manage Tier 2 timekeeping inquiries and resolve complex payroll issues.
- Prepare and submit timekeeping files for payroll processing. Serve as functional owner of time and attendance (T&A) systems, including reporting and system testing where applicable.
- Support payroll inputs including pay corrections, one-time payments, awards, and reimbursements.
- Ensure collective agreement pay changes (e.g., wage adjustments, COLA updates) are accurately executed.
- Manage payroll input for on-cycle and off-cycle runs ensuring compliance and accuracy
Tiered Support Model & Self-Service Adoption
- Educate employees and leaders on proper pay and timekeeping practices and the use of self-service tools.
- Act as gatekeeper for off-cycle, special, and one-time pay requests, ensuring adherence to policies and standards. Reinforce payroll policies and support escalation exceptions, as necessary.
- Provide onsite support (where required) through scheduled office hours and walk-in requests, while guiding employees through appropriate self-service channels.
- Deliver real-time feedback to People Operations and HR teams on gaps in content, policy, or processes.
Optimization & Continuous Improvement
- Partner on pay and time-related projects including self-service enablement and adoption, T&A updates, site-driven pay impacts, and pay-impact testing.
- Drive process standardization and self-service adoption & enablement and reinforce People Leader and Employee-defined accountabilities.
- Apply Lean principles to streamline workflows and improve operational efficiency.
Desired Characteristics
- Bachelor's degree in human resources, Business Administration, Accounting, or related field (or high school diploma/GED with at least 2 years of directly relevant experience).
- Minimum 2 years of experience in payroll, timekeeping, HR operations, or employee lifecycle administration.
- Strong knowledge of payroll processes, pay compliance requirements, and timekeeping systems.
- Demonstrated achievement in payroll and timekeeping administration, ideally in a large operations/service-oriented environment.
- Excellent communication and customer service skills with the ability to handle sensitive information with discretion.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret and analyze complex data.
- Proficiency with payroll/HRIS systems and reporting tools; Workday and case management experience preferred.
- Familiarity with Lean or process optimization principles strongly preferred.
Gestion de la paie et de la tenue des temps
- Gérer les demandes de niveau 2 liées à la tenue des temps et résoudre les problèmes complexes de paie.
- Préparer et soumettre les fichiers de temps pour le traitement de la paie.
- Agir comme responsable fonctionnel(le) des systèmes de temps et présence (T&A), y compris la production de rapports et les tests systèmes, le cas échéant.
- Soutenir les entrées de paie, y compris les corrections de paie, les paiements ponctuels, les primes et les remboursements.
- Veiller à ce que les changements prévus aux conventions collectives (p. ex. ajustements salariaux, mises à jour du coût de la vie/COLA) soient appliqués avec exactitude.
- Gérer les entrées de paie pour les cycles réguliers (on‑cycle) et spéciaux (off‑cycle), en assurant la conformité et l'exactitude.
Modèle de soutien par paliers et adoption du libre-service
- Sensibiliser les employés et les gestionnaires aux bonnes pratiques de paie et de gestion du temps ainsi qu'à l'utilisation des outils en libre-service.
- Agir comme point de contrôle pour les demandes de paie hors cycle, spéciales et uniques, en veillant au respect des politiques et des normes. Renforcer les politiques de paie et soutenir l'escalade des exceptions, au besoin.
- Offrir du soutien en personne (au besoin) pendant des plages horaires prédéterminées et pour les demandes sans rendez-vous, tout en guidant les employés vers les canaux de libre-service appropriés.
- Fournir une rétroaction en temps réel aux équipes People Operations et RH sur les lacunes dans le contenu, les politiques ou les processus.
Optimisation et amélioration continue
- Participer aux projets liés à la paie et au temps, notamment l'activation et l'adoption du libre-service, les mises à jour des systèmes de temps et présence, les impacts liés aux sites sur la paie et les tests d'impact sur la paie.
- Promouvoir la standardisation des processus ainsi que l'activation et l'adoption du libre-service, et rappeler les responsabilités définies des gestionnaires et des employés.
- Appliquer les principes Lean pour simplifier les flux de travail et améliorer l'efficacité opérationnelle.
Profil recherché
- Baccalauréat en ressources humaines, administration des affaires, comptabilité ou dans un domaine connexe (ou diplôme d'études secondaires/équivalent GED avec au moins 2 ans d'expérience directement pertinente).
- Minimum de 2 ans d'expérience en paie, gestion du temps, opérations RH ou administration du cycle de vie des employés.
- Solide connaissance des processus de paie, des exigences de conformité en matière de rémunération et des systèmes de tenue des temps.
- Réalisations démontrées en administration de la paie et de la tenue des temps, idéalement dans un environnement de grande envergure axé sur les opérations ou les services.
- Excellentes aptitudes en communication et en service à la clientèle, avec la capacité de traiter de l'information sensible avec discrétion.
- Solides compétences analytiques, organisationnelles et en résolution de problèmes, avec la capacité d'interpréter et d'analyser des données complexes.
- Maîtrise des systèmes de paie/SGRH (HRIS) et des outils de création de rapports; expérience avec Workday et la gestion des cas souhaitée.
- Familiarité avec les principes Lean ou d'optimisation des processus fortement souhaitée.
**Additional Information*
*Relocation Assistance Provided:
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