Manager Payroll

Coca-Cola Consolidated; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Coca-Cola Consolidated is seeking a Payroll Manager to lead assigned payroll operations and coach four Payroll Analyst I teammates. You will oversee daily execution, workload planning, and processing across multiple states, ensuring accurate and timely payroll delivery.

Collaborate with HR, Finance, IT, and vendors to resolve issues, implement changes, and maintain payroll controls. This role emphasizes leadership, process improvements, and compliance within a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 7+ years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day payroll operations across cycles, processing schedules, calendars, reconciliations, and issue resolution.
• Provide leadership, coaching, development, workload planning, performance management, and quality oversight for four Payroll Analyst I teammates.
• Manage operational payroll exceptions related to deductions, garnishments, union dues, interfaces, and vendor-related issues.
• Partner with HR, Finance, IT, Treasury, Labor Relations, Driver Services, payroll vendors, and leadership to resolve issues and support changes.
• Execute payroll controls, maintain documentation, support audit requests, monitor service metrics, and ensure procedures are followed.
• Support payroll testing, implementations, analyst readiness, training, and change-management initiatives.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Payroll leadership

SAP payroll

Workforce Dimensions

Driver Services tool (TMW)

ADP

Garnishments

Deductions

Payroll controls

Audits

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Business Administration / Accounting / Finance / HR / Information Systems or related field

Tools

SAP payroll

Workforce Dimensions

Driver Services tool (TMW)

ADP

Job description

Locations: Charlotte

Requisition ID: 271250

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Job Overview

The Manager, Payroll leads assigned payroll operations and provides direct leadership for four Payroll Analyst I teammates to ensure accurate, timely, controlled, and compliant payroll delivery. This role is responsible for managing day-to-day payroll execution, analyst workload planning, payroll processing activities, operational exception resolution, payroll service delivery, and quality review processes across assigned payroll workstreams. The Payroll Manager partners with Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Treasury, Labor Relations, Driver Services, payroll vendors, and payroll leadership to resolve operational issues and support business needs. The position is accountable for operational execution, teammate development, and service performance while supporting established payroll controls, testing activities, and process improvements directed by payroll leadership.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day payroll operations across assigned payroll cycles, processing schedules, payroll calendars, reconciliations, operational reviews, and issue resolution activities to ensure accurate and timely payroll delivery.
• Provide direct leadership, coaching, development, workload planning, performance management support, and quality oversight for four Payroll Analyst I teammates.
• Manage operational payroll exceptions related to deductions, garnishments, union dues, interfaces, Workforce Dimensions, Driver Services tool (TMW), reporting issues, and vendor-related processing concerns.
• Partner with Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Treasury, Labor Relations, Driver Services, payroll vendors, and payroll leadership to resolve payroll issues and support operational business changes.
• Execute established payroll controls, maintain documentation, support audit requests, monitor service metrics, and ensure adherence to payroll procedures and standard work.
• Support payroll testing, implementation activities, analyst readiness, training efforts, process improvements, and change management initiatives directed by Sr. Payroll Manager or Director Payroll.
• Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Experience supporting a complex, multi-state payroll environment.
• Experience with SAP payroll, Workforce Dimensions, Driver Services tool (TMW), ADP or other payroll vendors, union dues and billing, garnishments, deductions, payroll interfaces, payroll controls, testing support, process documentation, audit support, and teammate coaching is preferred.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (4 years)
• Relevenat work experience of 7 or more years

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Information Systems, or a related field is preferred.
• Equivalent directly related payroll leadership, payroll operations, accounting, HR operations, or payroll systems experience may be considered based on business need.

Work Environment

• Normal Office Environment

Equal Opportunity Employer - All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.