Honeywell Sr Director North American Payroll 

United States 

803550291

EXPECTED OUTCOMES

• On-time, accurate payroll delivery and employee payments
• Timely offboarding and separations
• Seamless integration with time and attendance systems
• Meet/exceed success metrics and key process indicators
• Ensure audit compliance
• Drive expense savings
• Positive employee / manager experience with all services
• Maintain a highly motivated and engaged team
• Balanced team member workload with minimized overtime
• Partnership and collaboration across HRS, HR and SBGs
• Cross trained employees for backup/vacation coverage
• Team unity across work locations
• Employee development including skills growth and succession plans

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Oversight and responsibility for regional time, attendance and payroll, including compliance to legal and regulatory requirements (United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada).
  • Ensures all payroll and legislative deadlines are met across the payroll portfolio managing exceptions as necessary
  • Keeps up to date with statutory, legislative, revenue impacts on the payroll environment and communicate to the team
  • Escalates unresolved issues to Global Payroll Leader as appropriate
• Leads all aspects of people management within the team
  • Creating a work environment for employee engagement
  • Effective management of the North American payroll teams within span and layer constraints
  • Coordinate resources for providing functional and technical Payroll expertise to the business at all levels, including production support, data analysis, customer issue resolution and troubleshooting
  • Focuses on fostering an environment where employees are engaged to do their work ; Prioritizes workload and aligns resources
• Process Optimization
  • Optimization of payroll processes to reduce cycle time (eg: 3 calcs to 2 calcs)
  • Adherence to business commitments all projects (eg: OOC schedule reductions, M&A, NDA)
  • Interface with up/down stream systems and tools for efficient processes
  • Drive permanent fixes to issues (lessons learned, no repetitive failures)
  • Improve HR processes and support functional excellence for the global payroll team
• Strategy & technology
  • Assess the current support model and development of strategy to ensure seamless support of Payroll solutions
  • Mobilize technical resources to ensure a positive bottom-line impact
  • Manage the overall coordination of the payroll platform migrations and implementations in the region ensuring quality and controls are in place
  • Lead integration between different systems and the Payroll application across business groups in the region
  • Manage M&A activity and ensure that Payroll applications are delivered and incorporated into local business processes
    • Responsible for championing technical governance, management of payroll application project portfolio, resources, metrics, and reporting
  • Identifies, prioritizes and implements process improvements across the entities served (externally) and in metrics and controls procedures (internally)
  • Provides functional expertise and leads transition projects during new acquisitions and activities related to increasing market share
  • Leads process improvement projects to enable productivity and customer satisfaction gains
• Manage key stakeholders:
  • Manage the interaction with other internal regional and global service delivery groups
  • Acts as point of escalation for the team and customers ensuring effective handling and resolution of issues
  • Manages relationships with assigned key HR and Finance leaders, assuring transition plans are in line with business priorities
  • Partners with Business Units to implement digital business solutions
• Maintain and report service levels:
  • Tracks performance and measure operations to ensure that payroll delivers on requirements
  • Assesses and provides feedback regarding HR field leadership satisfaction with service level
  • Delivers monthly operations reports and reports out to Human Resources leadership as requested.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, HR or similar discipline
• 5+ years of experience with payroll, time or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of experience working in a HR Services or Finance role
• Experience leading in a large organization
• Excellent computer skills, including Microsoft Office and other HR systems or technologies (SAP and Peoplesoft experience a plus)
• Bias towards process improvement and streamlining of data workflow
• Knowledge of Information Protection and Data Privacy legislation for the region
• People management skills including management of remote and virtual teams
• Excellent communication skills at all levels in organization

PREFERRED

• Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or similar discipline
• Knowledge of Federal, State, and Local payroll policies and procedures, or similar relevant experience
• Certification such as Certified Payroll Professional (CPP)
• Extensive human resources experience
• Critical Behaviors – Beyond the Honeywell 8:
  • Personal ownership and accountability
  • Motivational optimism
  • Meetings with purpose, agenda and defined outcomes/actions including only the necessary participants
  • Proactive problem solving
  • Effective bi-directional communication flow
  • Listening for need (people & business)
  • Respect for the individual
  • Personal growth and skills development

• JOB ID: HRD220532
• Category: Human Resources
• Location: 855 S Mint St,Charlotte,North Carolina,28202,United States
• Exempt