Manager, Us Payroll Operations

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**Your New Role**

Warner Bros. Discovery seeks a Payroll Manager for the Global Business Services People and Culture Shared Services Payroll Department who will be instrumental in managing and overseeing successful day to day payroll service delivery. This individual should be experienced in payroll administration of US employees, high volume, multi-state payroll with knowledge of payroll regulatory compliance across all states in which employees reside, including US and expatriate employees, and experience with payroll processing for multiple legal entities. This position will be responsible for ensuring the required pay inputs, processing tasks, and outputs are processed timely to produce paychecks for employees. This position will lead the Payroll team to complete and settle payroll timely and according to policy and regulatory standards. In addition, this individual will identify, troubleshoot, and assist with resolution to errors that may occur. Lastly, this individual will interact with management, vendors, and related business units to manage the proper response to inquiries and audits.

**Your Role Accountabilities**
- Manage the day to day operations of the U.S. payroll function servicing over 20,000 employees and 50 legal entities.
- Lead a team of payroll professionals in payroll related activities based on the defined payroll processing schedule for each pay group, ensuring timely close of payroll and coverage for daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and holiday processing requirements.
- Adhere to daily, weekly, bi-weekly and annual deadlines for payroll processing and reporting requirements (e.g., tax deposit and tax filings, ACH deadlines).
- Oversee payroll activities in Workbrain Online Time and Attendance (OTA), Workday Time Tracking, and Workday Payroll systems.
- Ensure that pay inputs are accurately manually entered or loaded using Workday Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), and audits are completed to check employees are paid correctly.
- Resolve issues related to calculation of pay for union employees according to collective bargaining agreements, all employees according to company policy and legislative requirements, and resolve questions on taxes, garnishments, imputed income, pension, or benefit deductions, etc.
- Perform data analysis by running reports, and using Excel functionality (vlookups, index match, pivot tables).
- Provide exceptional customer service by ensuring service level agreements (SLAs) are met, all inquiries are answered, and all requests are processed in a timely manner.
- Provide resolution to escalated operational or policy issues.
- Support internal audits of various payroll areas and preparing materials for external and internal auditors.
- Troubleshoot any issues that must be cleared to close payroll on time. Assess and prioritize processing requirements and decide when to move forward with processing or when to stop.
- Understand interdependencies of inbound and outbound integrations and how payroll processing is impacted by errors or delays. Manage processing schedule according to these interdependencies. Coordinate with Technology to launch integrations and/or resolve integration issues.
- Assisting Payroll Reconciliation and Pension Teams to analyze and resolve payroll accounting and pension discrepancies. Trace payroll transactions to the SAP financial system general ledger(s).
- Provide status reports to key stakeholders and participate in meetings as appropriate
- Identify and execute ways to improve operational processes in the spirit of continuous improvement.
- Ensure appropriate documentation for operational process and procedures are in place and adhered to as part of operations (e.g., processing schedule, checklist, DTPs). Administer employee trainings on payroll policies and usage of payroll related systems.
- Participate in testing of payroll system or process changes and enhancements.
- Partner with key players and decision makers for payroll processing both inside and outside the company to effectively operate payroll including key constituents who deliver payroll input (like HR, Finance, residuals group, T&E) and those who make decisions on ho