Darigold is seeking a dynamic and experienced Payroll Manager to join our team at our headquarters in Seattle, WA. This role is responsible for leading the Payroll team in delivering accurate and timely timekeeping, payroll processing and reporting for both U.S.-based and international employees. The Payroll Manager will drive operational excellence by streamlining payroll functions, championing continuous improvement initiatives and ensuring cost-effective practices across all Payroll operations.
Darigold is the fifth largest dairy cooperative in the United States based on milk volume and one of the largest privately held organizations headquartered in the state of Washington. Since 1918, our producers have taken pride in producing dairy products with unsurpassed quality. Today, we are one of the nation's largest agricultural cooperatives, producing over 8.5 billion pounds of milk every year.
Through innovative technology and our efficient, flexible production capabilities, we deliver value-added products and customer-driven solutions. Darigold is now known throughout the world for bringing fresh, wholesome dairy products and ingredients from the Northwest to people all around the globe.
What You Will Do:
- Develops, implements and maintains payroll procedures and controls to ensure a high level of accuracy, efficiency and compliance.
- Backs up Payroll team to process payroll and international payroll processing.
- Leads continuous improvement efforts to increase the accuracy and efficiency of the payroll function and company as a whole.
- Partners with Finance and other HR teams to support corporate and field functions.
- Serves as the subject matter expert (SME) of the payroll & timekeeping systems.
- Responsible for payroll tax requirements, filings and IRS-related requirements.
- Stay current with relevant payroll-related laws such as FLSA, federal and state payroll taxes and other mandatory compliance and reporting requirements.
- Ability to research and complete new state setup requirements.
- Manage pre- and post-tax earnings and deductions.
- Ensures the identification and resolution of pay and benefit issues, such as wage & hour compliance, multi-employer pension plans, multi-employer Health & Welfare plans and deferred compensation plans.
- Partners with HR, Legal and relevant stakeholders to ensure adherence to union contracts.
- Partners with Finance to support payroll accounting practices, including journal entry process and general ledger