Payroll Manager

Texas Dow Employees Credit Union; United States; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The Payroll Manager at Texas Dow Employees Credit Union leads end-to-end payroll operations, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and regulatory compliance. The role oversees Workday Payroll configuration, integrations with HR and Finance, and internal controls to optimize payroll processes.

Hybrid work model with three days in Houston HQ, directing a cross-functional team and liaising with auditors and finance colleagues to drive efficiency and data integrity across payroll activities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Business or equivalent.
• 7–10+ years payroll experience in a multi-jurisdictional environment.
• 3–5 years Workday payroll processing.

Responsibilities

• Oversee bi-weekly payroll for 1,000+ employees across jurisdictions.
• Manage off-cycle payrolls in Workday for bonuses.
• Audit and approve payroll before service-provider release.
• Lead payroll expansion into new jurisdictions.
• Maintain payroll policies and internal controls.
• Interface payroll system with general ledger.

Skills

Payroll leadership

Regulatory compliance

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Business

Tools

Workday Payroll

MS Office

Job description

Position Summary

The Payroll Manager is responsible for leading and overseeing the TDECU’s end-to-end payroll operations, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payroll processing while driving operational efficiency and continuous improvement. This role provides strategic and operational leadership across payroll administration, payroll systems, regulatory compliance, reporting, reconciliation, policies, procedures, payroll calendars, processing schedules and internal controls. Leveraging deep expertise in Workday Payroll, the Payroll Manager oversees payroll system functionality, supports configuration and enhancements, optimizes business processes, and ensures effective integration with HR, Finance, and Accounting systems. The role partners cross-functionally to resolve complex payroll issues, strengthen data integrity, mitigate risk, and enhance the employee payroll experience. This role maintains high fidelity and collaborative efforts with the Accounting, Finance, Internal Audit teams to ensure all financial controls and reporting are correct.

Work Model

Hybrid Remote, with 3 days a week at TDECU's corporate Galleria headquarters in Houston, TX.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage the overall functions to ensure accurate, timely and efficient payroll processing of bi-weekly, 1,000+ multi-jurisdictional employees (non-exempt and exempt employees).
• Manage and create off-cycle payrolls in Workday for bonuses.
• Analyzes and approves the Payroll before release to the payroll service provider.
• Lead the geographic expansion of payroll processing into other jurisdictions as the company rapidly expands its footprint.
• Manage the Time-Off Policies in the payroll system.
• Maintain policies and procedures including key internal control documentation.
• Manage the calculation of supplemental pays.
• Manage the time and attendance system in Workday.
• Create and run various reports.
• Manages the process for payroll manual check activities to report wages, taxes, benefits and gross‑ups.
• Audit, input and verify 3rd Party Processing of statutory reporting and compliance filing to ensure accuracy, compliance and timeliness. This includes quarterly taxes, quarterly 3rd party sick pay and annual W2 reporting.
• Maintain the interface from the payroll system to the general ledger.
• Provide support for various external audits.
• Lead the payroll due diligence and integration for potential acquisitions.
• Critically review and analyze the current payroll, benefits and tax procedures in order to recommend and implement changes leading to best practices and to ensure controls are in place.
• Administrate an maintain the Workday Payroll system as related to payroll, garnishments, taxes and validation tables (Earning Codes, Deduction Codes, Memo Codes, Accumulators, etc.).
• Includes configuration planning for required upgrades and decision making, scoping and testing on implementation of new payroll systems.
• Ensure organization is kept informed and up to date on current processes, policies and procedures on Payroll related topics.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting or a Business related field from an accredited institution of higher education or equivalent combination of education and progressive payroll experience.
• Experience 7 – 10 plus years of progressive payroll experience (multi-jurisdictional environment preferred) 3-5 years Workday payroll processing.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of Report writing is required.
• Strong knowledge of federal, state, and local payroll tax and compensation laws; ability to leverage knowledge to identify payroll issues, discrepancies and opportunities, as well as, effectively resolve identified issues.
• Knowledge of Supplemental Wage Payments and IRS Taxation Guidelines.
• Workday Payroll experience is strongly preferred; proficient knowledge of Workday payroll to include payroll reporting.
• Knowledge of 401(k) Plans, HIPPA, Benefit Plans, COBRA and Wellness Programs.
• Basic knowledge of the payroll accounting principles and practices.
• Proficiency in MS Office Strong analytical and problem solving skills required.
• Excellent verbal and written skills required.
• Organized and detail oriented with an ability to work independently.
• Strong interpersonal, decision making and problem resolution skills.
• Excellent time management and multi-tasking abilities.
• Must maintain the highest regard for confidentiality with extreme discretion and integrity.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

(The physical demands and work environment characteristics described herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform essential functions of this position and/or may be encountered while performing essential functions.) While performing the essential duties of this position, an employee would frequently be required to stand, walk, and sit. An employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and may occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds to perform essential position functions. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Disclaimer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Texas Dow Employees Credit Union is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, color, age, protected veteran status, sex, religion, disability, genetic information, national origin or other status protected by federal, state or local law. Consistent with the American Disabilities Act, applicants may request accommodations needed to participate in the application process.

Company History

Founded in 1955, TDECU formed when a group of Dow employees pitched in $5 each to loan a friend $35 to buy a refrigerator. That initial mission of people helping people continues today. Over the last 65 years, we have grown to meet the needs of the communities we serve and share TDECU's passion for service and great value in our products. Our first merger took us west to the Victoria area, where we made many new friends and Members. We have since become an integral part of the community. In the East Market, where we began, we opened our field of membership to serve all Brazoria County residents. Today, TDECU has 39 service locations, including 35 Member Centers. The original $35 loan has turned into over $4 billion in assets today that continue to improve our 348,000 Members' lives by helping them get what they need to achieve their financial needs and dreams.

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