What are the responsibilities and job description for the Payroll Manager position at Rack Room Shoes?
About Rack Room Shoes
Great shoes for men, women and children in comfort, dress, casual, and athletic categories make Rack Room Shoes the family footwear retailer of choice. The company offers a wide selection of nationally recognized brands known for their quality. Rack Room Shoes also offers an assortment of exclusive private brands commissioned from the best manufacturers in the business. Our private brands offer customers great styles and outstanding values, which translates into satisfied, loyal, repeat customers.
Job Description Summary:
Responsible for all aspects of payroll for retail store and non-exempt corporate employees. Payroll manager will lead a team of payroll professionals to perform the core departmental functions of managing the daily, weekly, and bi-weekly payroll preparation and processes; filing payroll tax reports; reconciling payroll ledger accounts; preparing management reports; and maintaining accurate payroll records.
Essential Job Functions:
- Manages computation of pay according to company policy, balances the payroll accounts by resolving discrepancies and reviews payroll to ensure accuracy of employees’ pay.
- Determines payroll liabilities by approving the calculation of employee federal and state income and social security taxes, and employer's social security, unemployment, garnishments and workers compensation payments.
- Directs preparation of periodic, monthly, quarterly and annual management reports.
- Accomplish Departmental objectives by determining and assigning work procedure/schedules and by improving efficiency within Payroll Department; includes recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training Payroll employees and planning, monitoring, and appraising their job performance and results.
- Determines & assigns work procedures and work schedules and expedites workflow within Payroll Department.
- Complies with federal, state, and local legal requirements by studying and implementing existing and new legislation/regulations; enforcing adherence to requirements; advising management on needed actions.
- Maintains employee confidence and protects payroll operations by keeping information confidential.
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
Additional Job Functions:
- Directs actions of IS Department personnel for resolution of any technical issues with payroll processing.
- Acts as a Change Agent: Identifies areas of opportunity within the department and acts on those opportunities effectively and methodically.
- Communicates with other departments regarding any changes, needs, etc. with impact on payroll operations.
- Implement streamlined auditing procedures and queries to check data entry and for consistency during payroll processing.
Qualifications and Skills:
- 5 Years of Payroll experience
- Certified payroll professional (CPP) designation, preferred
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or related field
- Experience in payroll, accounting or HR function for a corporation
- 2 years of Experience running a large payroll using an enterprise payroll solution - Oracle EBS 12.2, Peoplesoft, Ceridian/Dayforce, ADP, SAP, etc.
- Experience managing a team of direct reports
- Experience with Zebra/Reflexis workforce management system
- Familiarity with Accounting Principles
- Strong knowledge of tax and filing requirements
- Strong Microsoft Office, primarily Excel, experience required
- Must be highly organized and detail oriented
- Strong analytical skills
Physical Demands:
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Work Environment:
- Office environment, Hybrid
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills requires of the position. All employees may have other duties assigned at any time.
