Americas Payroll Manager recruitment
The Company
Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company's strength - delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately - is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 300,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg's enterprise solutions build on the company's core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through television, radio, mobile, the Internet and two magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets, covers the world with more than 2,300 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. Headquartered New York, Bloomberg employs more than 13,000 people in 185 locations around world.
The Role
The Americas Payroll Manager will be responsible for Payrolls in the US, Canada and Latin America regions. The role encompasses managing regional payroll operations, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance through the research, development and administration of efficient payroll policies and operating procedures. The Americas Payroll Manager will manage a client specific team delivering pay to employees in the regions in multiple currencies though both internal systems and third party vendors.
Qualifications
- 10 or more years of experience directly managing a payroll or accounting team
- Excellent attention to detail
- Strong understanding of PeopleSoft
- Strong customer service skills, both written verbal
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities
- Advanced MS Office Skills
- Proven experience with leading a successful team
- Ability to excel in a fast-paced environment and adapt to change quickly
- Demonstrated ability to drive process improvements
- Demonstrated overriding sense of urgency and action orientation
- Demonstrated ability to execute on plan and on budget
- Strong ability to listen to customers and develop practical, supportable, and efficient solutions to meet customer needs
- While we are not seeking a technologist, the candidate should have an up-to-date appreciation for technology and information products within the Payroll and Accounting industry.
Principal Responsibilities:
- Manage, mentor and evaluate performance of a payroll team
- Collaborate and build relationships with internal and external business partners, human resource relationship managers, compensation, staffing and line of business clients
- Ensure compliance, best practices and proper controls
- Ensure client metrics and high accuracy rates are met
- Provide operational solutions, promoting team customer service and client satisfaction
- Provide escalation point for client specific issues, communicate in a professional manner and constantly strive for providing excellent customer service
- Work with foreign contacts and international payroll providers to manage payroll in Latin America
- Support the Compensation Accounting Department with Payroll account reconciliations Staff development and training
- Recommending system and process enhancements, providing analytical and statistical reports
- Partner with internal end-users and external vendors to ensure that payroll systems provide accurate and appropriate data, payments to employees and compliant reporting
- Proven ability to create articulate and concise systems specifications
Personal Characteristics:
- An intellectual curiosity and desire to create game-changing disruptive business models.
- Not content with the status quo - continuously challenge oneself and others.
- A creative, bright, effective, self-motivated individual who possesses, vision, initiative, energy and self-confidence.
- A strong intellect that is combined with a practical and realistic common sense understanding of how to get things done.
Bloomberg is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and we welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or any other classification protected by law.
