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Houston, TX 77056

Posted: 10/22/2025 Employment Type: Direct Hire Job Function: Accounting/Finance, Human Resources Job Number: 24625 Pay: $135,000-$145,000 Remote / Hybrid Jobs: On-Site

Job Description

An industry leader in energy solutions is seeking a Payroll Manager to oversee all payroll operations and ensure accurate, compliant, and timely employee compensation. The ideal candidate is an experienced payroll professional with strong leadership, analytical, and compliance management skills, and expertise in multi-state and international payroll processes. Working collaboratively, the new leader will streamline payroll systems by optimizing workflows, maintaining regulatory and SOX compliance, and leading system transitions while fostering cross-departmental collaboration and ensuring operational excellence.

Salary + Additional Benefits:

$135,000-$147,000 + STI + LTI
Medical, Dental, Vision
401K with 4% Match

Location: Houston, TX (Hybrid)
Type of Position: Direct Hire

Responsibilities:

Lead and oversee the entire payroll function, including processing bi-weekly and special payrolls for all employees, ensuring accurate and timely compensation in compliance with federal, state, and local regulations.
Manage payroll accounting, reporting, and reconciliation, including an understanding of accounting general ledger integration, journal entries, and period-end close processes.
Process management: Oversee and manage the end-to-end processing of payroll for employees in multiple U.S. states. This includes collecting and validating employee data, hours worked, and ensuring timely and accurate payments.
Compliance expertise: Ensure full compliance with federal, state, and local wage and tax regulations. This requires staying up-to-date on continually changing payroll laws, such as minimum wage requirements, overtime rules, paid leave mandates, and final paycheck regulations across all applicable states.
Tax filings: Oversee vendor management of the preparation and filing of multi-state payroll tax returns, including quarterly and annual filings (e.g., Forms 940, 941, W-2s) and ensuring timely tax deposits.
Garnishments and deductions: Administer employee deductions and garnishments in accordance with federal and state laws, which may have different rules for calculation and remittance.
Record maintenance: Maintain accurate and secure employee payroll records, including tax forms, direct deposit information, and withholding elections.
International cross-border payroll coordination - Manage payroll processing for employees and contractors across multiple countries and regions, often by coordinating with international payroll vendors or Employer of Record (EOR) services. Ensure compliance with country-specific tax laws, social security contributions, and labor laws, including statutory benefits and local reporting requirements.
Vendor management - Manage, and coordinate with in-country payroll providers, ensuring they meet service level agreements (SLAs) and deliver accurate, timely payroll services.
Multi-currency management - Handle multi-currency transactions, which includes overseeing exchange rate calculations, payment schedules, and managing foreign exchange (forex) risks.
Global mobility - Handle complex payroll arrangements for expatriates, remote workers, and employees on international assignments, including tax equalization and compliance with tax treaties.
Serve as the primary point of contact for all SOX compliance and audit activities related to payroll. This includes developing, implementing, and maintaining robust internal controls, preparing documentation for internal and external auditors, and remediating any deficiencies.
Administer the payroll system (either Oracle Payroll or UKG Ready), including configuration, maintenance, reporting, and integration with other HR and financial systems (currently Microsoft DSL).
Manage and supervise a team of payroll professionals, providing guidance, training, performance management, and support to ensure a high-performing and motivated team.
Manage all payroll-related reporting, including ad-hoc requests, standard reports for management, and compliance-related documentation.
Oversee payroll system upgrades, implementations, or integrations, serving as the subject matter expert on payroll processes and system capabilities.
Develop and maintain documented payroll procedures and controls to ensure consistency, accuracy, and adherence to company policies.
Stay current on changes in payroll regulations, tax laws, and compliance requirements to ensure continuous adherence and mitigate risk
Manage 401(k) Plan by reconciling bi-weekly deferral and match uploads, year-end true up process, and the annual Department of Labor/IRS 5500 submission process, including the required annual 401(k) audit conducted by Perkins & Company.
Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field is required.
Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) certification is preferred
Minimum of 7-10 years of progressive payroll management experience, with at least 3-5 years in a leadership role, extensive experience managing SOX compliance and participating in internal and external audits related to payroll, as well as hands-on experience with a large-scale payroll system, specifically Oracle Payroll or UKG Ready. Experience with multi-state payroll processing and international payroll is preferred
Business Acumen: A strategic thinker with good business perspective and an understanding of the company’s business. Able to function comfortably in political interactions. Capable of developing strong interpersonal networks within the organization.
Problem solving: Decisive with good judgment. Identifies and resolves problems in an efficient and effective manner. Gathers and reviews information appropriately. Uses own judgment and acts independently; seeks input from other team members as appropriate for complex or sensitive situations.
Oral/written communication: Strong communication skills, externally and internally. Listens carefully and speaks clearly and professionally in all situations. Edits work for accuracy and clarity, Is able to create, read and interpret complex written information.
Planning/organizing: Capable leader; able to establish a vision and align an organization around the vision. Prioritizes and plans work activities, organizes personal and project timelines and deadlines, tracks project timelines and deadlines, and uses time efficiently.
Integrity: Is trusted by peers and subordinates.
Adaptability: Adapts to changes in the work environment, manages competing demands and is able to deal with frequent interruptions, changes, delays, or unexpected events.
Dependability: Consistently on time and at work, responds to management expectations.
Team Building: Capable of developing strong interpersonal networks and trust within the organization, setting expectations and requirements and achieving accountability of supervised personnel. Leads consensus by involving all stakeholders, facilitating their understanding of differences, agreeing on requirements and constraints, and developing the best solution.
Safety Culture: Adheres to the Corporate Safety culture and is expected to model safe behavior and influence peers to meet high standards.
Quality Assurance: Commits to the understanding and implementation of quality assurance regulations, standards, and guidelines of 10 CFR 50 Appendix B, 10 CFR 21, and NQA-1.
Ability to understand and communicate clearly using a phone, personal interaction, and computers.
Ability to learn new job functions and comprehend and understand new concepts quickly and apply them accurately in a rapidly evolving environment.

Due to the high volume of applications we typically receive, we regret that we are not able to personally respond to all applications. However, if you are invited to take the next step in the process, you will typically be contacted within one week of submitting your application. #LI-DNI

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