Are you passionate about developing people and building strong teams? Do you thrive in creating clarity, supporting growth, and keeping others energized and motivated? We’re looking for a Payroll Manager to join our growing firm and help lead our nine-member payroll department. 
 
In this newly redesigned role, you’ll focus on the people side of leadership—providing coaching, training, and clear communication to ensure our payroll team thrives. You’ll hold regular 1:1s, coordinate workflow, and be the first point of contact for staff support and development. Partnering closely with our Director of Payroll, who leads technical operations, you’ll bring balance to the department by keeping the team aligned, engaged, and growing. You’ll also serve as a key communicator with clients and vendors, ensuring positive relationships and smooth collaboration. 
 What You'll Do:Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, and support for payroll team membersMonitor and coordinate team workflow to ensure timely and accurate payroll delivery Interview, select, and train new employees Foster open communication and collaboration across the department Support a culture of accountability, development, and continuous improvement Perform monthly one-on-one meetings and quarterly conversations with all team members to guide performance, address challenges, and celebrate wins Serve as the first point of contact for client and vendor communication, ensuring issues are addressed promptly and relationships stay strong Hold a seat on the payroll leadership team—meeting weekly in an EOS L10—to partner with the Director of Payroll and COO on departmental goals and initiatives  Daily/Weekly Tasks Oversee the daily processing workflow to ensure all payrolls are processed, taxes are paid, bank accounts are reconciled, ACH file sent, and package fulfillment timely and accurately completedWork with vendors to resolve issues and reconcile vendor invoicesProcess voids, client corrections, service bureau corrections and supplemental runsManage the YPD calendar so that all daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual processes are timely and accurately completedCreate technical solutions to resolve payroll issues that arise with processing software and related technologyConduct weekly team meetings to address operations related issues/goals ensuring that the agenda and meeting minutes are memorializedOversee client communications via isolved or Qount, cover letter notes, and email tag linesEnsure adequate staffing to complete daily processing/tax & finance needsResearch payroll law related issuesAssist in setting up new clients when neededPerform and analyze internal payroll processing auditsHandle the daily Tax/Finance/ACH functions as backup when Tax Specialist is outApprove draw-down requests with banking institutionsApprove/deny vacation requests; maintain minimal staffing needs