Director of Payroll & HRIS
Reports to : SVP of HR
Direct Reports : 2 - Payroll Manager and HRIS Manager
Location : St. Louis, MO (Hybrid)
The Director of Payroll & HRIS serves as a strategic leader and is responsible for providing direction for HR technology and Payroll Services teams.
The Director is responsible for ensuring all HRIS and Payroll Shared Services' systems, policies, and programs are competitive, sustainable, scalable, and have an impact on the long- and short-term performance of the organization.
Responsibilities
HRIS
Sets strategy for HR technology, including the systems, integrations, and data integrity for HCM, Recruiting, Onboarding, Compensation, Benefits, Learning Management, Performance Management, Talent Management and Reporting.
This includes the maintenance and improvements of current systems, as well as recommendations for new technology.
- Collaborates with HR leadership across all Centers of Excellences and all company departments to develop systems and process roadmaps to support all stakeholders.
- Optimizes all HRIS systems to meet workforce growth requirements, creating opportunities for automation and the reduction of manual processes.
- Works collaboratively with IT counterparts on understanding security roles, integrations, and other shared systems.
- Communicates effectively and builds strong relationships with a diverse group of stakeholders at multiple levels from end users to executives.
- Monitors technology trends in HRIS to anticipate and prepare for future or emerging HR technology solutions with consideration for business and user needs.
- Develops and administers service level agreements, control standards, and issue escalation matrix to ensure policy and process compliance.
- Ensures data governance is established and leveraged consistently throughout HR and in the broader organization as it relates to people data.
Payroll & Shared Services
- Develops and implements shared services for payroll processes, policies, and procedures to ensure proper internal controls, efficiency and a great employee experience,
- Builds a culture of continuous improvement ensuring efficient and consistent employee experience and delivering operational excellence and simplification.
- Creates, identifies, and implements innovative methodologies, techniques, process improvements and evaluation criteria to continually streamline and improve service delivery and people operations.
- Builds and executes an operational strategy to deliver a superior client experience while creating capacity for business and people growth, development, and continuous improvement.
Strategic Leader
- Leads the HRIS and Payroll Shared Services teams for the US and Canada.
- Negotiates contracts, manages vendor relationships, and provides oversight for consultants for various services either obtained as a new offering or maintained as a current offering.
- Stays abreast of federal, state, and local laws and regulations and ensures compliance.
Qualifications :
- BA / BS degree with an emphasis in human resources, business, information technology, or related field required
- 5+ years leading direct reports and managing cross-functional teams
- Prior experience with HRIS / Payroll including implementation of new technology preferred.
- Prior experience with payroll in the US, Canada and Mexico preferred
- 3-5 years of experience with UKG preferred
- Demonstrated effective management and leadership skills
- Ability to effectively interface with all levels of management and employees
- A creative approach to problem solving, with a humble, team-oriented and solutions-focused attitude
- Strong verbal and written communication skills including the ability to convey complex ideas in a simple manner and to tailor key messages and presentation style to multiple audiences
- Goal-oriented with the demonstrated ability to prioritize on a consistent basis in an ever-changing environment and execute from ideation to conclusion
So, what are you waiting for? A new career awaits you with endless opportunities.
Bunzl is a global leader in the Cleaning & Hygiene, Food Processing, Grocery, Health Care, Non-Food Retail, and Safety industries.
We have grown both organically and through acquisitions to sales in excess of $10 billion. Bunzl North America is headquartered in St.
Louis, Missouri. Bunzl North America owns and operates more than 100 warehouses and serves all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Canada and parts of the Caribbean and Mexico.
With more than 5,000 employees and 400,000 plus supplies, Bunzl is regarded as a leading supplier in North America.
Bunzl Distribution offers competitive salaries, a comfortable work environment, and a full range of benefits including a 401k with a company match.
Bunzl Distribution has a tradition of commitment to equal employment opportunity. It is the established policy to attract and retain the best qualified people without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex / gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, age, disability or veteran status as provided by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.
However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)