Position Title: Payroll Manager
Location: Sterling, VA preferred; additional locations in Warrenton and Winchester
Assignment Type: Permanent Hire
Compensation: $100,000 – $120,000 / Annually + discretionary bonus
Work Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM
Benefits: This position is eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, and 401(k)
Key Responsibilities
- Own and oversee the end-to-end payroll process
- Ensure payroll is processed accurately and on schedule
- Review payroll prior to final processing and verify appropriate approvals
- Oversee earnings, deductions, taxes, overtime, bonuses, commissions, benefits, and other payroll-related transactions
- Manage payroll activity related to hires, terminations, transfers, promotions, and compensation changes
- Establish and maintain payroll calendars, procedures, checklists, and internal controls
- Reconcile payroll-related general ledger accounts
- Coordinate payroll accruals, journal entries, payroll funding, and accounting requirements
- Support financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and audit requests
- Partner with Human Resources on employee data, benefits, leave, onboarding, and offboarding
- Work closely with Operations to ensure accurate timekeeping, overtime, job information, and payroll inputs
- Serve as the primary contact for payroll, tax, timekeeping, HRIS, and related vendors
- Manage payroll vendor performance and resolve system or service issues
- Lead payroll system updates, integrations, implementations, and testing
- Serve as the internal subject matter expert for UKG payroll and timekeeping
- Maintain UKG configuration, workflows, earnings codes, deductions, and timekeeping rules
- Identify opportunities to improve automation, reporting, efficiency, and data accuracy
- Oversee payroll tax filings, payments, reconciliations, and year-end reporting
- Maintain compliance with federal, state, and local payroll requirements
- Help hire, train, supervise, and develop payroll staff as the team grows
Qualifications
- 10+ years of progressive payroll experience required
- Significant experience overseeing complex payroll operations
- Hands-on UKG payroll and timekeeping experience required
- Union payroll experience required
Addison Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Addison Group provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities upon request.
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