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# HRIS & Payroll Manager

- **Company:** BUILD, Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $99,000.0 - $140,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Excel, Human Resources Information System (HRIS), Systems Integration, Automated Data Processing (ADP)
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/hris-payroll-manager-rebuild-manufacturing-8920478

## About the Role

You are a seasoned payroll professional who thrives on precision, governance, and building order in complex, multi-state environments. You have deep expertise in keeping pay accurate and compliant for a large, growing workforce in many locations. You guide enterprise wide HR departments and coordinate with collaborators in Finance, Benefits, IT, and HR leadership through knowledge and influence instead of formal authority., * Bachelor's degree in HR, Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or a related field.

 * 7-10+ years of progressive multi-state payroll experience in a complex organization, including payroll for 1,000+ employees across multiple locations.
 * Experience as the functional payroll lead during a major payroll/HRIS implementation, plus developing payroll policies, controls, and compliance frameworks.
 * Extensive knowledge of multi-state payroll and regulatory compliance, including wage-and-hour rules, garnishments, tax requirements, and year-end processing.
 * Strong functional HRIS/payroll skills (governance and validation), knowledge of payroll integrations, and familiarity with SOX.
 * Intermediate to advanced Excel and experience with payroll reporting and audit processes.
 * Strong analytical judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to influence without supervisory authority while maintaining confidentiality.

Preferred

 * Experience with ADP enterprise HRIS/payroll systems.

## Description

* Own RBM's corporate payroll policies, standards, and regulatory guidelines, ensuring accuracy across all sites, pay groups, and employee types.
 * Serve as the enterprise subject matter expert and escalation point for complex pay, tax, and compliance issues.
 * Maintain SOX-related controls and documentation, oversee year-end processes and W-2 accuracy, and assess federal, state, and local regulatory changes.
 * Provide enterprise-level oversight of site payroll processing, analyze recurring trends, and recommend systemic improvements.
 * Function as the lead for payroll operations within the enterprise payroll/HRIS implementation-defining requirements, pay group structures, and compliance needs, and driving testing, validation, cutover, and functional sign-off alongside the ADP implementation specialist.
 * Assume full functional ownership of the payroll system after launch, governing configuration changes and ensuring integrations across timekeeping, HRIS, benefits, and ERP stay consistent.
 * Oversee multi-state tax setups, withholding, garnishments, child support, tax levies, and bankruptcy order compliance.
 * Partner with Finance, Benefits, and senior HR management, and train site HR teams with clear mentorship, job aids, and blocking issue paths.


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