Payroll & HRIS Manager in Portland, Oregon - #72502 | VanderHouwen

Description

Job Id: 72502

Payroll & HRIS Manager
Our client is seeking a hands-on Payroll & HRIS Manager to serve as the primary owner of end-to-end payroll processing and HR systems administration within a dynamic, multi-state organization. This role is responsible for personally executing the full payroll lifecycle, ensuring payroll accuracy, compliance, and timely delivery while leading the administration, configuration, and continuous optimization of HRIS platforms. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, technically savvy, proactive, and thrives balancing operational execution with process improvement initiatives in a collaborative environment.

This role is a hybrid model in Portland, Oregon.

HR Payroll & HRIS Manager Responsibilities

• Personally own and execute the complete multi-state payroll process from start to finish, ensuring accurate and timely payroll processing, payroll tax compliance, reconciliations, payroll-to-general ledger balancing, and audit readiness.
• Serve as the primary administrator and subject matter expert for payroll and HRIS platforms, leading system configurations, upgrades, integrations, testing, and future implementations.
• Develop and maintain workforce, payroll, and HR reporting dashboards, analytics, and metrics to support business and leadership decision-making.
• Partner with Finance, Accounting, Controllers, and leadership teams on payroll operations, compensation initiatives, system enhancements, and process improvement efforts.
• Manage payroll vendors, processing controls, payroll calendars, employee inquiries, onboarding support, and continuous optimization of payroll and HR technology processes.

HR Payroll & HRIS Manager Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Human Resources, Accounting, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Five or more years of hands-on experience processing high-volume, multi-state payroll, including payroll administration, tax compliance, reconciliations, and end-to-end payroll execution responsibilities.
• Proven experience leading or supporting payroll and/or HRIS implementations, upgrades, integrations, system configuration, user acceptance testing, and go-live activities.
• Strong HRIS administration, advanced Excel, reporting, analytics, project management, troubleshooting, and process improvement experience.
• Experience partnering with Finance and Accounting leadership, supporting HRIS and payroll systems administration, reporting, analytics, audits, and continuous process improvement initiatives. CPP/FPC certification, Power BI, leave administration, compensation analysis, and complex payroll environment experience are highly desirable.

Salary: $110K-$120K/year + Bonus. (DOE)

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible full-time employees and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

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