Senior Payroll Leader for Hotels | Dayforce Expert

Highgate; Saint Pete Beach (FL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Highgate Hotels seeks a Payroll Manager to lead payroll operations for its hotel portfolio. The role encompasses strategy, process optimization, tax compliance, and system administration across multiple properties.

You will guide teams, manage payroll data, and deliver accurate reporting and W-2 filing. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of payroll leadership in a large organization, strong knowledge of US payroll tax, benefits administration, and experience with Ceridian Dayforce.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; Accounting/Business Degree preferred.
• Extensive leadership experience (process, people, and cross-functional teams).
• Solid understanding of Payroll, US tax, HR processes and timekeeping automation experience.
• 3rd party provider management experience
• 5+ years of payroll processing management experience in a large company is required
• Project Management Experience.
• Excellent written, analytical, and verbal communication skills, including a demonstrated ability to clearly articulate/summarize issues and present solutions to key stakeholders and senior leaders.
• Ability to influence and guide to achieve the best solution.
• Ability to analyze complex laws and regulations and apply them across Business Units and within corporate strategies.
• Ability to develop and maintain strong internal and external business relationships.
• Strong working knowledge of Ceridian Dayforce.

Responsibilities

• Maintain payroll best practices, ensure that high quality payroll and customer service is delivered.
• Ensure that the end payroll product and its processes are compliant with established internal controls and all state and federal regulations.
• Oversees annual preparation of W-2 income reporting.
• Defines and drives key requirements, projects and initiatives aimed at efficiency, quality, compliance, eliminating complexity and/or maximizing value of select functions and operations.
• Responsible for entering payroll data into the system.
• Responsible for auditing payroll data and maintaining files and records to produce accurate payroll period reports in accordance with hotel standards.
• Engages in ongoing auditing activities to verify the accuracy of payroll records and information.
• Check figures, postings, and documents for accuracy.
• Organize, secure, and maintain all files, records, cash and cash equivalents in accordance with policies and procedures.
• Record, store, and/or analyze computerized payroll information.
• Prepare, maintain, audit, and distribute statistical, auditing, or payroll reports and tables.
• Maintain, update, create, secure, and archive employee payroll records and files.
• Process and/or issue employee paychecks and statements of earnings and deductions.
• Understand basic payroll tax as it relates to the employee’s pay and their W2.
• Assist with benefits administration and compliance. Including, but not limited to, Healthcare and the verification of the weekly 401(k) wire confirmation for all properties and confirming that each property’s 401(k) contribution equal 25% 401(k) matches.
• Compute employee wages and deductions and enter wages and deductions into payroll system.
• Provide information to employees and managers/supervisors on payroll matters and tax issues,
• Adjust basic settings in time clock system.
• Display strong ethics and ability to keep information confidential.
• Provide analysis and guidance on payroll related initiatives.
• Maintain relationship with 3rd party banking, tax, and garnishment providers.
• Responsible for administration of garnishments and tracking all returned or stopped garnishment payments.
• Responsible for security setup for new system users for payroll and removing access for terminated user’s, resetting passwords, and maintaining an internal audit spreadsheet.
• Must have the ability to research payroll or payroll related items with little direction and present finding to the group.
• Responsible for additional administrative duties as required.

Skills

Leadership

Payroll knowledge

Project management

Communication skills

Cross-functional teamwork

Remote management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Ceridian Dayforce

Job description

Highgate Hotels seeks a Payroll Manager to lead payroll operations for its hotel portfolio. The role encompasses strategy, process optimization, tax compliance, and system administration across multiple properties.

You will guide teams, manage payroll data, and deliver accurate reporting and W-2 filing. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of payroll leadership in a large organization, strong knowledge of US payroll tax, benefits administration, and experience with Ceridian Dayforce.