Senior Payroll Supervisor – Americas, Compliance & Systems

Verisk Analytics, Inc.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Retirement Plan

Disability benefits

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Verisk Analytics, Inc. seeks a Payroll Supervisor to lead multi-entity payroll operations across the Americas, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely delivery.

You will provide hands-on payroll expertise, governance, and escalation support, partnering with HR, Accounting, and external vendors, while driving controls and system integrity. The role emphasizes leadership of high-complexity tasks, SOP maintenance, audits, and continuous improvement across time reporting, equity transactions, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with Oracle and third-party payroll providers.
• Extensive experience supervising multi-jurisdictional payrolls.
• Strong compliance, audits, reconciliations, and system-based payroll environments.
• Balance hands-on payroll execution with governance, controls, and stakeholder leadership.
• Advanced Excel and payroll analytics capabilities.
• Strong time management, project management, and prioritization skills.
• Experience leading or mentoring payroll staff.

Responsibilities

• Lead payroll compliance activities across the Americas ensuring local legislation, tax regulations, SOX and internal controls.
• Own and maintain Payroll SOPs for the Americas aligning with global standards.
• Review and sign-off on year-end processes, statutory filings, audits, and reconciliations.
• Ensure accurate tax calculation, reporting, and equity-related payroll transactions.
• Maintain data security, integrity, and access controls in accordance with Finance and corporate standards.
• Oversee payroll forecasting, KPI ownership, GL alignment, and subledger-to-ledger reconciliations.
• Act as a key contributor during internal and external payroll audits, including platform/process walkthroughs.
• Supervise end‑to‑end payroll processing activities, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and adherence to SOPs.
• Approve off‑cycle payments, special payments (bonuses, severance, commissions, STI), garnishments, and non‑payroll payments.
• Oversee payroll reconciliations, flux analysis, change reports, and bank statement agreements.
• Ensure correct setup and validation of new hires, terminations, salary changes, equity transactions, and time reporting.
• Provide peer review and final validation of payrolls prior to release.
• Expertise Emphasis: Execution oversight and complex payroll validation.

Skills

Payroll leadership

Cross‑jurisdictional payrolls

Advanced Excel

Payroll analytics

Time management

Project management

People leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Oracle

Third‑party payroll providers

Job description

Verisk Analytics, Inc. seeks a Payroll Supervisor to lead multi-entity payroll operations across the Americas, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely delivery.

You will provide hands-on payroll expertise, governance, and escalation support, partnering with HR, Accounting, and external vendors, while driving controls and system integrity. The role emphasizes leadership of high-complexity tasks, SOP maintenance, audits, and continuous improvement across time reporting, equity transactions, and