[ref. m142500] Payroll Supervisor/Manager/Director

Sr. Manager - Payroll & Equity

This individual will work closely to support all employees and across various functions including HR, Legal, payroll/benefits provider, transfer agent, broker, and financial auditors.

• Responsible for ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely processing of semi-monthly and monthly payrolls for employees located in multi-state locations.
• Review and process transactions including benefit changes, special compensation, other adjustments.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls, federal/state/local requirements, deadlines.
• Manage regulatory filings, notices, audits, and other communications from federal and state agencies.
• Work with payroll vendor on system administration, maintenance, reporting needs.
• Manage, reconcile, and report on employee benefit programs, including 401(k) and FSA, and work with service providers to resolve inquiries and/or provide employee training.
• Prepare journal entries, payroll and benefit reconciliations, and assist with quarterly reporting and external financial audits.
• Ad hoc projects including compensation research for annual compensation process and employee changes, board reports.
• Prepare and process new equity awards, exercises, cancellations and releases promptly, including off-cycle payrolls for tax withholdings.
• Track and report W-2 income from stock exercises and dispositions
• Execute trading blackout periods and enforcement of insider trading policy restrictions.
• Manage open enrollment process and purchases for ESPP including monitoring limits.
• Interact with transfer agent to ensure that trades are settled timely.
• Prepare journal entries related to equity and stock-based compensation expense, reconciliations, and assist with quarterly reporting and external audits.

Key Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• 10 plus years of relevant work experience
• Ability to clearly communicate verbally and in writing.
• Positive team attitude with a willingness to work on both smaller and large tasks to help get the job done.
• Candidate with experience in a fast-growing company is preferred.
• Experience with ADP WFN, Equity Edge, Computershare and NetSuite preferred
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, advanced Excel skill