PAYROLL MANAGER

Payroll Manager

Location: Hybrid/Hillsborough, NC/Mebane, NC

About Sports Endeavors

Since 1984 Sports Endeavors has helped people pursue their passion for sport by delivering unrivaled service and selection. Made up of players, coaches and passionate fans we are proud to foster a collaborative and creative workplace with a culture based on integrity and respect. Headquartered in Hillsborough, NC with our Fulfillment Center in Mebane, NC, the "home field" for Sports Endeavors is North Carolina's vibrant Triangle region that's also home to Chapel Hill, Durham and Raleigh. Our brands include: Soccer.com, World Soccer Shop and 431 Sports.

ob Purpose

We are seeking a detail-oriented and experienced Payroll Manager to join our team. The Payroll Manager will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of payroll processing, including managing payroll systems, ensuring accurate and timely payments to employees, and maintaining compliance with all relevant laws and regulations.

What You'll Do

Payroll Management

• Lead and manage payroll processing for 1000 employees across multiple locations, ensuring timely and accurate payroll execution
• Handle standard and complex payroll transactions, including retroactive calculations, manual adjustments, error resolution and root cause analysis.
• Identifies and recommends updates to payroll processing software, systems, and procedures.

Compliance

• Maintain compliance with all local, state and federal tax regulations, wage laws and company policies
• Work with external vendors to prepare and submit payroll tax filings and reports, including W-2s, and quarterly tax returns
• Conduct periodic audits of payroll processes and records to ensure accuracy and compliance
• Establish and monitor internal controls relative to the correct processing of wages, garnishments, incentives and deductions.

System Administration and Record Keeping

• Oversee timekeeping system to accurately record employee hours and troubleshoot issues with urgency
• Maintain accurate payroll records

Collaborative Resource

• Serve as key resource for payroll related inquiries, providing support to employees, leaders, HR and Finance teams.
• Coordinate with other human resources team members to ensure accurate and up to date employee information
• Partner with Finance for reconciliation of General Ledger, Debits/credits, reports

Onsite Office Support

• Sort mail and coordinate distribution of employee orders
• Answer front door and connect guest with colleagues
• Onsite notary (company supported)
• Work with a high level of professionalism, ethics and confidentiality
• Performs other related duties as required and assigned.

Your Background:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree required, specialty in accounting, finance, math, economics or human resource preferred.
• Experience: 5 years of payroll processing experience required. Experience supervising and managing a payroll team is preferred. Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) is a plus.
• Skills: Strong Microsoft Excel skills including experience with functions like V-lookup, pivot tables. Experience with HRIS system; Paycor HRIS preferred.

What You'll Bring

• Strong analytical skills put to work on producing quality work
• Natural ability to see opportunities to help or make things better focused on seeing commitments all the way through to completion
• Collaborative mindset that builds trustful, professional relationships across departments and levels within an organization

Where You'll Work

• This role works primarily 3 days a week in our Hillsborough office and 2 days a week remote.
• During peak season (May - September), this position will work on paydays at our warehouse in Mebane, NC

What We Offer

• Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision and disability
• Flexible paid time off
• Team member merchandise discounts
• Athletic club discounts
• 401k matching

Physical Demands

• Regularly sit, stand, talk, hear, reach, stoop, kneel and use hands or fingers to operate a computer, telephone, keyboard and mouse.
• Light to moderate lifting may be required
• Regular, predictable attendance is required
• Specific vision abilities include close visual acuity to perform activities such as: preparing and analyzing data, transcribing information, using a laptop and reading.

Details of benefit plans and policies will be provided if a candidate receives an offer of employment.