Manager Corporate Payroll

Position Title: Manager Corporate Payroll
Position Location: Hershey, PA
Summary:
This position manages The Hershey Company's Corporate Payroll function for US, Canada, and Switzerland and directly supervises a team of five. The Corporate Payroll Manager will serve as liaison with Plant payroll, Legal, Tax, HR, and Corporate Accounting to ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements. The position is responsible for but not limited to such duties as ensuring accurate and timely processing of payroll, reviewing and approving all payroll tax filings and payments, and ensuring SOX compliance. The position will lead year-end payroll activities including W2 and T4 filings. As needed, this position will partner with global payroll leads on ad hoc projects.
Major Duties/Responsibilities:
Summary of major duties:
Payroll Team Management

• Provide day-to-day leadership of the Payroll team
• Develop annual performance goals for staff and assist in staff development of Career Development Action Plan (CDAP)
• Provide effective coaching and mentoring of employees that enable professional growth and development of skills and abilities
• Manage performance by providing regular feedback through one on one meetings, and tailoring development plans to achieve maximum performance and to ready these individuals for future roles
• Incorporating regular team meetings, huddles, etc. to share relevant business information and discuss impact to current processes and procedures

Responsible for designing and implementing appropriate training, learning, and cross-training opportunities for staff.
Payroll Operations

• Understand and manage all payroll cycles and deadlines to ensure accurate and timely processing of information and delivery of pay.
• Manage the payroll tax filings and payments for the Corporation.
• Oversee the preparation of tax filings, W2s, T4s and other government reporting.
• Ensure that all filings and payments are made on time.
• Stays current on newly enacted and evolving tax regulations to ensure the Corporations' compliance with all laws and regulations.
• Act as Sarbanes Oxley control owner for payroll process.
• Provide payroll related data to support other functional areas: Benefits, Planning, HR, and Finance.
• Act as liaison with various Plant payroll departments to provide guidance and ensure compliance with Company policies and regulatory requirements.
• Serve as Payroll lead representative for global payroll team and as needed lead ad hoc global payroll projects
• Cultivate effective relationships with external partners such as ADP, Equifax, BSI, etc.

HR Services Leadership Team

• Participate as a member of the HBP Global Payroll & Benefits team, working closely with the Director, HR Services.
• Partner effectively with other HBP HR Service Delivery managers to ensure knowledge transfer between teams.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:
Education: Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or related field. Advanced degree is a plus but not required.
Experience:

• Minimum 5-8 years of related progressive payroll experience required
• Minimum 3-5 years Supervisory experience required

SAP Payroll experience, ADP Streamline Payroll experience and Successfactors Employee Central experience desired
Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required to successfully perform major duties/responsibilities:
Functional Skill Requirements
Process Management / Process Improvement
Follows processes and guidelines per established operating procedures to organize people and activities to accomplish results through an efficient workflow. Continuously improves key work processes; develops better, faster, more efficient ways of doing things (including eliminating unnecessary work and all non-value-added activities). Identifies cause/effect relationships and addresses root causes of problems wherever they exist.
Payroll and HR Information Systems Application & Reporting
Demonstrated proficiency in application of Payroll and HR systems to respond to customer requests, solve problems, process administrative transactions, and manage data integrity. As needed provides accurate and timely data reports to help customers make better decisions.
Competency Requirements
Drive for Results
Pushes self and others to exceed goals and achieve breakthrough results. Recognizes the key actions necessary to achieve results; establishes and communicates the priorities to others; and, maintains own and others focus on achieving the important goals. Demonstrates persistence in overcoming roadblocks to achieving results and encourages others to do the same.
Business Acumen
Understands how businesses work including how strategies and tactics work in the marketplace. Maintains working knowledge of competitors as well as current and possible future policies, practices, trends, and information affecting his/ her business and organization.
Interpersonal Relations
Establishes and maintains constructive and effective relationships built upon trust. Uses diplomacy and tact to diffuse even high-tension situations. Works to find common ground and mutually beneficial solutions to conflicts. Can represent his/her own interest and yet be fair to other groups. Viewed by others as a team player.
Problem Solving and Decision Making
Uses a systematic process to solve difficult problems including gathering and examining information from a variety of sources; identifying the root cause of problems; drawing appropriate conclusions; generating viable solutions; and, weighing the pros and cons to arrive at a final decision. Makes decision in a timely manner, sometimes with incomplete information and under tight deadlines and pressure.
Process Management
Identifies the processes required to accomplish work tasks; simplifies and integrates processes and work tasks to enable efficient workflow; utilizes best practices to organize people and activities; measures results against key metrics; uses resources efficiently.
Team Leadership
Motivates direct reports and team or project members to perform at their highest potential by understanding their individual needs, soliciting their input, empowering them to achieve breakthrough results, holding individuals accountable for own actions, and recognizing individual contributions and achievements. Takes an active role in developing others, including hold development discussions, constructing development plants and monitoring progress toward goals, providing stretch tasks and assignments, providing timely, honest, and "actionable" feedback, and taking corrective action, as necessary.
Other Knowledge and Ability Requirements

• Must be a proactive, self-starter with excellent attention to details.
• Demonstrated successful managerial and leadership experience
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience of payroll law, payroll taxes and reporting and generally accepted accounting principles (U.S. GAAP)
• The ability to flawlessly execute in an environment with high volume and high complexity.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to generate comprehensive reports
• Attention to detail and accuracy in work
• Effective prioritization, follow-up skills and the ability to escalate issues when necessary.
• Detail-oriented, logical, and methodological approach to problem solving.
• Knowledge and experience working with SAP Net Payroll, ADP Streamline Payroll, Successfactors Employee Central, SAP, ServiceNow, Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office applications
• A customer focused service delivery specialist with global orientation.
• Works cooperatively as a member of a team and is committed to the overall team objectives rather than own interests.
• Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills dealing with a diverse group of individuals at all levels within the Company.
• Able to maintain strict confidentiality with respect to employee records and system data.
• Able to manage complex administrative processes concurrently over multiple time frames, strong project management and prioritization skills.

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