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About the Role
NYPA is seeking an experienced, highly skilled, and collaborative Director of Payroll to lead the Payroll function, ensuring accurate and timely payment for employees across multiple sites and union groups in New York State, while maintaining compliance with all regulatory requirements. This management role oversees a team of payroll professionals, focusing on clear direction, workload balancing, fostering a high-performance culture, and staff development. The Director will guide the team through evolving priorities, oversee data validation and quality checks, and uphold NYPA’s standards for compliance, union contract interpretation, and data accuracy. This role offers the opportunity to shape processes, strengthen team capabilities, and build on operational excellence. The Director will maintain and optimize payroll systems, oversee integrations between Workday, SAP, and ADP, troubleshoot issues, and ensure rigorous controls for accurate payroll processing and tax reporting.
Responsibilities
- Focus on tactical and operational plans within NYPA and Canal with short to mid-term focus.
- Influence others outside of their own team regarding policies, practices, and procedures.
- Manage experienced professionals and supervisors who exercise latitude and independence in assignments.
- Maintain the payroll system in good working condition by coordinating updates and fixes & troubleshooting payroll-related problems at headquarters & sites by working with IT staff, outside vendors, and HR.
- Oversee the operation of the time entry system to ensure compliance with Department of Labor wage and hour laws and to adhere to NYPA and Canal policies.
- Interact with IRS, SS Administration, NYS Tax Authority, NYS Employees retirement system, labor unions, financial firms, and credit unions to ensure accurate reporting requirements and payments.
- Ensure the production of timely & accurate biweekly paychecks by monitoring the current control systems & establishing new controls as necessary.
- Monitor NYPA and Canal tax payments & reporting processes to ensure accuracy & timely compliance of federal, state & local tax laws by working with outside vendors and legal.
Requirements
- Strong leadership skills with people management experience directly supervising teams of at least 3+ people, supervising workload, assignments and providing employee development, support and coaching.
- Experience working within organizations with at least 1,000 employees, including union employees.
- Deep expertise in multi-union, multi-site payroll operations.
- Ability to manage complex workflows consistently.
- Experience with ERP systems, ADP, and system integrations.
- Expert knowledge of payroll processing procedures & applicable tax laws.
- Expert knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
- Expert knowledge of SAP.
- Expert knowledge of Federal, NY State and local employment laws (401(k), IRA Cafeteria plans, etc.) and discrimination testing.
- Familiar with best practices in payroll profession and demonstrated ability to implement practices in daily payroll processing routine.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to effectively manage and prioritize multiple projects within varying deadlines.
- Strong managerial, communication and interpersonal relationship skills with the ability to work with various functional groups.
Skills
- Payroll processing
- Tax laws
- Microsoft Excel
- SAP
- Federal employment laws
- NY State employment laws
- Local employment laws
- 401(k) administration
- IRA administration
- Cafeteria plans
- Discrimination testing
- Payroll best practices
- Verbal communication
- Written communication
- Project management
- Time management
- Managerial skills
- Interpersonal relationship skills
- Workday integration
- ADP integration
Location
- New York State
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Minimum 7 years’ experience in automated payroll processing for large, multi-site, multi union organization.
- Minimum 3 years of supervisory experience.
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field required.
- Payroll professional certification or equivalent required.
Salary/Compensations
- $147,000 - $184,000
About the Company
- The New York Power Authority (NYPA) is committed to providing fair, competitive, and market-informed compensation.
- NYPA accepts a standard 12-month F-1 Optional Practical Training (OPT) visa for certain roles.
- NYPA is not an E-Verify employer and is ineligible to support the F-1 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) OPT extension (24-month add-on).
- The New York Power Authority and Canal Corporation believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion drive our success, and we encourage women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents and veterans to apply.
- As an equal opportunity employer, NYPA/Canals is committed to building inclusive, innovative work environments with employees who reflect communities across New York and enthusiastically serve them.
- We proudly celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on race/color, creed/religion, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, age, disability, military status, gender/sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy and related conditions, familial/marital status, domestic violence victim status, predisposing genetic characteristics, arrest/criminal conviction record or any other category protected by law.
- NYPA/Canals will also provide reasonable accommodations during the hiring process related to candidates’ disabilities, pregnancy-related conditions, religious observances/practices and/or domestic violence concerns.
Equal Opportunity
- As an equal opportunity employer, NYPA/Canals is committed to building inclusive, innovative work environments with employees who reflect communities across New York and enthusiastically serve them.
- We proudly celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on race/color, creed/religion, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, age, disability, military status, gender/sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy and related conditions, familial/marital status, domestic violence victim status, predisposing genetic characteristics, arrest/criminal conviction record or any other category protected by law.
- NYPA/Canals will also provide reasonable accommodations during the hiring process related to candidates’ disabilities, pregnancy-related conditions, religious observances/practices and/or domestic violence concerns.