Payroll Supervisor

Dollar General; Goodlettsville (TN); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A major retail corporation in Goodlettsville, TN, is looking for a Payroll Manager to oversee payroll processing and employee training. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree and 3-5 years of experience in multi-state payroll management. Responsibilities include managing payroll staff, evaluating staffing needs, and maintaining payroll systems to ensure accuracy. Strong communication, organizational, and leadership skills are essential for this role, which plays a vital part in reducing company expenses through process improvements.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to manage, motivate, and develop employees.
• Firm understanding of payroll laws, calculations, and accounting principles.
• Self-reliant with conflict resolution skills while upholding company values.

Responsibilities

• Provide direction and coaching for payroll staff.
• Evaluate staffing needs to improve company expenses and processes.
• Maintain and update payroll systems for accuracy.
• Assists in implementing updates for payroll systems.

Skills

Employee management

Payroll laws

Organizational skills

Conflict resolution

Team collaboration

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s or Associate's degree in business or related field

Job description

• Provide direction, guidance, coaching, compensation recommendations and conduct performance evaluations for staff. Cultivate and coordinate necessary employee training and statistical reporting to enhance employee performance. Provide comprehensive knowledge and understanding for processing of each payroll logsheet while performing cross training exercises with team to ensure proficient backups are maintained for all payroll processing activities.
• Evaluate best practices and staffing needs to determine short and long term goals to reduce company expense and implement process improvements. Communicate findings with management on a regular basis.
• Support paystub posting and paycard administration including enrollments and funding, research employee address discrepancies and communicate finding with vendors, maintain stock and equity payments and adjustments ensuring accurate and timely processing into applicable payroll systems.
• Maintain detailed payroll system processes and procedures, log sheet updates, while working with management team and Financial Systems Support to determine correct placement for new programs and system updates including software and application test reviews and consultation for upgrades and overall system administration.
• Assists in the testing and completion of required updates to legacy payroll systems to ensure successful implementation and desired results.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to effectively manage, motivate and develop employees.
• Firm understanding of payroll laws, calculations, accounting principles, and regulations.
• Superior organizational skills with the ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment while initiating and managing change consistent with strategic initiatives.
• Self-Reliant with the capacity to resolve conflict while maintaining company values.
• Team player with the ability to interact and maintain relationships with multiple departments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to interact with all levels of management.

Work Experience and/or Education

• Bachelor’s or associates degree in business or related field, plus 3 – 5 years of multi-state payroll processing and management experience required.
• Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) a plus. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted.