Director of Payroll & ADP Transformation

Icon Parking; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Icon Parking seeks a hands-on Director of Payroll & Payroll Transformation to lead our payroll operations and the ADP implementation across multiple entities and states. The role requires governance of biweekly payroll, data integrity, and system integration with HR, IT and Finance.

The candidate will drive standardization, controls, and post-implementation stabilization while partnering with ADP and internal leaders to ensure timely, accurate payroll and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, HR, business administration or related discipline preferred.
• Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) strongly preferred.
• 7–10+ years of progressive payroll experience with leadership in a complex organization.
• Demonstrated experience leading at least one full-cycle ADP payroll implementation from planning to post-go-live.
• Strong working knowledge of ADP Lyriq; Dayforce experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end ADP implementation and transformation, including planning, requirements, configuration, testing, go-live, and stabilization.
• Define payroll workflows, business rules and reporting needs with HR and stakeholders.
• Oversee data cleansing, migration, validation, reconciliation and data integrity.
• Manage milestones, deliverables, risks, dependencies and contingency plans.
• Coordinate integrations with HR, Finance, timekeeping, benefits and other platforms.

Skills

Payroll leadership

ADP Lyriq

Multi-state payroll

Data migration

Cross-functional collaboration

Union payroll experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance/HR

CPP certification

Tools

ADP Lyriq

ADP Workforce Now

Dayforce

Job description

Icon Parking seeks a hands-on Director of Payroll & Payroll Transformation to lead our payroll operations and the ADP implementation across multiple entities and states. The role requires governance of biweekly payroll, data integrity, and system integration with HR, IT and Finance.

The candidate will drive standardization, controls, and post-implementation stabilization while partnering with ADP and internal leaders to ensure timely, accurate payroll and regulatory compliance.