Payroll and Benefits Administration Manager

The Company:

Priority Power is an innovative provider of integrated energy services for commercial and industrial clients. The company provides energy management and energy infrastructure solutions designed to help their clients:

• Procure energy that meets their cost and sustainability goals.
• Monetize flexibility in client load to reduce their energy costs.
• Upgrade their energy infrastructure to make their operations less costly, more resilient, and more sustainable.

Energy Management Services help customers reduce their energy spend, minimize volatility in their energy costs, monetize their load flexibility, and achieve their sustainability goals. Services include:

• Energy procurement and interconnection services
• Load management services
• Asset management services
• Data, information, and advisory services

Energy Infrastructure Services help customers reduce their energy costs, decarbonize their operations, and connect new facilities to the grid faster by developing private transmission and distribution infrastructure and distributed generation. Services include:

• Design-build services
• Infrastructure-as-a-service

Job Summary:

The payroll manager will be responsible for overseeing and directing payroll procedures, benefit administration, ensuring compliance with laws and tax obligations, and maintaining accurate payroll records.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead the preparation, analysis, maintenance, and processing of the payroll function.
• Assist in establishing and implementing required accounting and financial policies pertaining to the payroll function.
• Establish working procedures and processes for the payroll unit.
• Maintain in-depth technical and professional knowledge of the payroll function.
• Ensure the schedule for transmitting direct deposit payments for wages to the bank; the management of payroll garnishments, 401k loan repayments, are accurate and timely.
• Prepare, submit, and monitor the required financial reports.
• Monitor and adjust employee annual wage statements for overpayments, third party sick pay, and workers’ compensation payments.
• Coordinate, schedule, and review payroll activities; compose correspondence to employees regarding payroll activities and procedures.
• Monitor compliance of legislative changes as necessary; and design and implement the use of payroll-related forms.
• Research and respond to questions regarding payroll policies and procedures; prepare responses to court or arbitration-ordered payroll data.
• Prepare and submit quarterly and annual payroll reports and statements to appropriate governmental agencies as required.
• Coordinate the processing of W-2 statements; annually balance W-2 figures with payroll partner.
• Liaise with auditors during annual audit procedures including required 5500 filings.
• Partner with HR to ensure all benefit plans are administered correctly including proper deductions.
• Ensure all payroll account balances are correct, resolve any payroll errors, and all merits, promotions, etc., are entered correctly and on time.
• Partner with Revenue Operations team to ensure that Commissions are properly calculated and processed.

Required Job Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience as a Payroll manager, preferably in a company with 200+ employees.
• Proven experience in managing payroll in most States.
• Proven analytical and mathematic skills.
• In-depth knowledge of Federal and State Tax requirements regarding payroll deductions.
• Proven experience in partnership with Finance regarding reporting and department cost allocation requirements.
• Excellent collaboration skills.
• Ability to handle confidential information with integrity and discretion.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and is outcomes oriented.

Preferred Job Skills & Qualifications:

• Former experience in private equity growth companies.
• Former experience with Paylocity.
• Experience working with complex commission plan payments.