Director, Treasury, Payroll Tax & Billing

Armhr; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental

Vision

Paid time off

401K retirement with company match

Job summary

Armhr, a Chicago-based PEO, seeks a Director of Financial Operations to own the full money movement cycle for our clients, including treasury, payroll tax, and billing. You will partner with Payroll Operations to ensure funding cycles and tax deadlines run smoothly and report on funding, disbursement, and tax activity.

The role requires 7+ years in a PEO/payroll/ASO environment, strong leadership, and expertise in banking platforms, ACH, and compliance.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in a PEO, payroll bureau, or ASO environment with hands-on ownership of client funds
• Strong knowledge of multi-state payroll tax and SUI rate mechanics
• Demonstrated ability to own daily cash or funding operations in a high-volume setting
• Experience with banking platforms, ACH origination, and fraud controls
• Proficiency in building reporting and analysis directly, not via others; SQL or equivalent preferred
• Comfort using AI tools to accelerate analysis, documentation, and process improvement
• People leadership experience or proven escalation ownership
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or related field or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Own the daily client funds position end to end, from collections through payroll and tax disbursements
• Manage payroll funding cycle, including funding verification and escalation of failed or late wires
• Administer banking platforms, ACH parameters, and Positive Pay; own banking relationship
• Ensure timely and accurate tax deposits and filings across federal, state, and local jurisdictions
• Own bill code setup and maintenance; map to revenue
• Build ad hoc and off-cycle billing from request through invoice
• Standardize billing rules across clients; resolve one-off configurations
• Partner with Implementation and Client Services on billing setup for new and changing clients
• Share ownership of the funding calendar, processing cutoffs, and exception handling
• Build and maintain reporting on funding, disbursement, and tax activity
• Engage with clients to resolve issues and answer questions
• Direct treasury, payroll tax, and billing team; hire, coach, and manage performance
• Escalate tax and treasury issues; diagnose and resolve funding failures and notices
• Develop cross-training across functions for seamless coverage
• Identify and lead process improvements across money movement cycle

Skills

SQL

AI tools

Reporting & analysis

People leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/Business Administration

Tools

PrismHR

NetSuite

Job description

Armhr, a Chicago-based PEO, seeks a Director of Financial Operations to own the full money movement cycle for our clients, including treasury, payroll tax, and billing. You will partner with Payroll Operations to ensure funding cycles and tax deadlines run smoothly and report on funding, disbursement, and tax activity.

The role requires 7+ years in a PEO/payroll/ASO environment, strong leadership, and expertise in banking platforms, ACH, and compliance.