Payroll Compliance Lead | AI‑Driven Audits & UKG Pro

Equinox; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries and benefits

Complimentary Club membership

Perks and incentives with Equinox’s产品

Job summary

Equinox is seeking a Payroll Compliance Manager to develop, monitor, and optimize payroll compliance programs across the organization. You will act as the payroll subject-matter expert for audits, regulatory changes, and system controls with hands-on UKG Pro and UKG Workforce Management experience.

The role emphasizes risk mitigation, policy development, AI-enabled analytics, and collaboration with Legal, HR, Finance, and IT to ensure accurate, compliant payroll processing across multi-state

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years payroll experience, including 3+ years in payroll compliance, audits, controls, or payroll management.
• Strong hands-on experience with UKG Pro and UKG Workforce Management is required.
• Experience supporting complex, high-volume, multi-state payroll operations.
• Strong knowledge of federal, state, and local wage-and-hour and payroll tax requirements.
• Experience performing payroll audits, developing internal controls, and resolving compliance findings.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, data validation, exception analysis, and large-data reconciliation.
• Demonstrated proficiency using generative AI and AI-enabled analytics tools in a professional payroll, compliance, finance, audit, or HR environment.
• Strong analytical, research, documentation, project-management, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to handle confidential employee and payroll information with discretion.

Responsibilities

• Monitor compliance with federal, state, and local payroll laws across locations and employee populations.
• Maintain a comprehensive payroll compliance calendar for filings, deadlines, audits, and policy reviews.
• Research regulatory changes and translate requirements into payroll policies, procedures, and system configurations.
• Partner with Legal, HR, Finance, Tax, Benefits, Operations, and Internal Audit to address payroll compliance risks.
• Review payroll policies and procedures to ensure consistent application across locations and units.
• Maintain documentation supporting payroll decisions, regulatory interpretations, and corrective actions.
• Serve as a SME for UKG Pro and UKG Workforce Management, including test and implement system changes.
• Develop UKG queries, reports, dashboards, and exception reporting for compliance issues.

Skills

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Communication

Project management

Policy development

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

UKG Pro

UKG Workforce Management

Excel

AI tools

Job description

Equinox is seeking a Payroll Compliance Manager to develop, monitor, and optimize payroll compliance programs across the organization. You will act as the payroll subject-matter expert for audits, regulatory changes, and system controls with hands-on UKG Pro and UKG Workforce Management experience.

The role emphasizes risk mitigation, policy development, AI-enabled analytics, and collaboration with Legal, HR, Finance, and IT to ensure accurate, compliant payroll processing across multi-state