Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Harbor provides expert services across strategy, legal technology, operations, and intelligence. The US Payroll Manager will take ownership of accurate, compliant, and timely US payroll delivery for client engagements, while supporting payroll operations, process improvements, implementations, and transformation projects.
Responsibilities
- The successful candidate will initially provide operational continuity for a key client, ensuring its US payroll remains accurate, controlled, and delivered on time
- Following this assignment, the role may transition into another client engagement, supporting either business-as-usual payroll delivery or a payroll improvement, implementation, or transformation project
- You will need to take ownership from the outset, identify priorities quickly, and bring structure and stability to evolving situations
- You will oversee the accurate, timely, and compliant delivery of US payroll services, working closely with senior client stakeholders, payroll vendors, HR, Finance, and other partners to deliver a responsive and high-quality service
- Confidently work across payroll, HR, time, benefits, and finance systems
- Quickly learn and navigate different client systems and operating environments
- Maintain payroll data integrity and investigate discrepancies between source systems and payroll outputs
- Support system testing, data validation, process improvements, and implementation activity where required
- Use technology and automation to strengthen payroll controls, reporting, and operational efficiency
Skills
- Confidently work across payroll, HR, time, benefits, and finance systems
- Quickly learn and navigate different client systems and operating environments
- Maintain payroll data integrity and investigate discrepancies between source systems and payroll outputs
- Support system testing, data validation, process improvements, and implementation activity where required
- Use technology and automation to strengthen payroll controls, reporting, and operational efficiency
- Significant experience managing end-to-end US payroll operations, ideally within a multi-client, consultancy, outsourced, or fast-changing environment
- Strong knowledge of federal, state, and local payroll taxation and compliance requirements
- Practical experience managing multi-state payrolls and associated reporting obligations
- Strong experience using a recognised US payroll platform and working with integrated HR and payroll data
- Experience managing third-party payroll, benefits, tax, or other pay-related vendors
- Strong understanding of employee benefits, retirement plans, deductions, and payroll-related taxation
- Experience processing and reviewing variable compensation, including bonuses and commissions
- Working knowledge of payroll accounting, reconciliations, general ledger requirements, and financial controls
- Experience supporting payroll implementations, migrations, stabilisation, or process improvement would be advantageous
- Experience of ADP Workforce Now and Workday preferred
Benefits
- Remote position that can be worked from the UK or US
- UK candidates can work hybrid from our Nantwich, England office
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