Position Title: Director of Payroll
Location: Chevy Chase, MD - Hybrid, three days per week on-site
Assignment Type: Permanent Hire
Compensation: $170,000-$230,000 annually
Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM-5:00 PM
Benefits: This position is eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, and 401(k).
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic and operational leadership for payroll across a large, multi-state employee population.
- Lead payroll transformation initiatives involving people, processes, systems, controls, and reporting.
- Evaluate current payroll workflows and identify inefficiencies, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
- Redesign payroll processes to reduce spreadsheets, manual workarounds, and dependence on individual institutional knowledge.
- Optimize Workday Payroll functionality, configuration, reporting, workflows, and automation.
- Identify opportunities to use artificial intelligence and other technology-enabled solutions to improve payroll accuracy and efficiency.
- Develop a modern, scalable payroll operating model that supports continued organizational growth.
- Establish and maintain payroll policies, procedures, controls, documentation, and governance standards.
- Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local payroll regulations across multiple jurisdictions.
- Oversee wage-and-hour compliance, payroll tax requirements, deductions, and employee pay practices.
- Support payroll requirements involving foreign nationals, visa holders, and other specialized employee populations.
- Coordinate with third-party providers regarding payroll tax remittance, year-end reporting, and related services.
Qualifications
- At least 10 years of progressive payroll experience, including significant payroll leadership responsibility, preferred.
- Demonstrated experience transforming or modernizing payroll operations required.
- Experience assessing manual or outdated payroll environments and implementing improved workflows, controls, and technology.
- Extensive Workday Payroll experience required.
- Demonstrated ability to optimize Workday Payroll functionality beyond routine system operation.
- Multi-state payroll experience required.
