Sotera Health Company

Payroll

• Lead accurate and timely end-to-end payroll processing, including regular, supplemental, and off-cycle payrolls
• Establish and manage payroll calendars, submission deadlines, review procedures, approvals, and escalation protocols
• Review biweekly payroll registers, variance reports, exception reports, tax calculations, deductions, and funding requirements
• Oversee payroll-tax deposits, filings, reconciliations, W-2 processing, agency notices, garnishments, levies, and statutory obligations
• Oversee payroll controls for executive compensation, incentive payments, deferred compensation, equity-related transactions, and other executive payroll components
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local wage, tax, record-retention, and payroll-reporting requirements
• Oversee timekeeping, absence, and payroll-data interfaces and resolve failed or inaccurate transactions
• Maintain payroll policies, procedures, internal controls, segregation of duties, system access, and audit trails
• Partner with Accounting on month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close requirements
• Support internal and external audits and remediate findings
• Maintain payroll records according to legal and company retention requirements
• Lead, coach, and develop the payroll team, including responsibilities, goals, schedules, service levels, backup coverage, and development plans
• Serve as escalation point for complex associate-pay issues
• Partner with Human Resources, Accounting, Treasury, Legal, IT, Internal Audit, and business stakeholders
• Manage payroll vendors, service levels, issue escalation, system releases, and continuous improvement
• Establish business-continuity procedures for operational disruptions
• Lead payroll-system governance, configuration, testing, upgrades, integrations, and data-quality monitoring
• Implement automation and process improvements to reduce manual work, errors, cycle time, and control risk
• Develop and monitor payroll KPIs, root-cause trends, and corrective-action plans
• Support acquisitions, organizational changes, payroll conversions, and employee-data integrations
• Maintain knowledge of payroll legislation, market practices, and emerging payroll technologies
• Partner with the HRIS team on Workday and related payroll-system configuration, testing, and integrations

Payroll Manager