CPB Jobline: Job Listing: New York Public Radio: Senior Payroll Manager (12776)

NY Public Radio is looking for an innovative Senior Payroll Manager to manage the conversion to a new HRIS. He/she will oversee the timely and accurate implementation of the new system and transition to managing the execution of payroll for over 500 employees in multiple states. The Senior Payroll Manager is the subject matter expert for employee payroll compliance. This position is for a strategic thinker with the drive to implement best practices and operational efficiencies.

• Partner with Human Resources in implementing a new HRIS, managing the full life-cycle implementation of the payroll, time and attendance systems and to ensure employee records are current and accurate.
• Certify systems are established to optimize workflow, meet the needs of the payroll rules as dictated by internal policies and collective bargaining agreement, maximize technical efficiencies, and secure data.
• Critically review and analyze current practices and indentify process improvements leading to best-practice operations.
• Enforce established payroll related policies and regulations.
• Automate all aspects of payroll including timesheets, report generation, error and exception reports, payment remittances for various benefits, and general ledger integration.
• Create and implement training for organization-wide staff on use of new system.
• Coordinate and manage entire payroll function.
• Communicate actively with department heads, HR and Finance to ensure proper compliance with internal and external policies and coding from a budgetary perspective.
• Oversee regular preparation of relevant management reports, including weekly, monthly, quarterly and year-end reports.
• Provide excellent customer service to all employees.
• Ensure accuracy of payroll data.
• Manage the payroll aspects of the annual and 403(b) audits.
• Keep current on industry trends and legal changes.
• Preparation of ad hoc reports as required.
•    Additional duties as assigned.

• 7 -10 or more years of payroll experience required.
• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• Must have managed an HRIS implementation.
• Product history with ADP and Ceridian preferred.
• Highly proficient in Excel required.
• Experience processing multi-state payroll for more than 500 employees required.
• CPP Certification a plus.
• Solid understanding of employment law, regulatory, and legal compliance practices required.
• Expertise in payroll best practices and proven track record of process improvement.
• Must be versed with working in a close team environment and providing project management/leadership for various Human Resources projects and initiatives.
• Strong work ethic with ability to work independently required. 
• Customer service mentality and approach required.
• Solid organization skills, attention to detail and follow through to resolve outstanding issues required.
• Familiarity with interpreting Union Contracts required.
• Ability to create, review and supply policies and procedures.

All positions at NYPR require:

• The intellectual and emotional depth, maturity, self-confidence and interpersonal skills to work effectively with the senior leadership team, colleagues, staff and external partners and provide motivation at all levels of an organization
• Excellent communication skills—both oral and written—with an impressive reputation for building and maintaining relationships with people at all levels of an organization, across a diverse range of cultural, generational, ethnic, racial, educational and social backgrounds
• Use of a computer, telephone and other office and/or broadcast equipment.
• Ability to communicate effectively through a variety of methods  including but not limited to; email, internet based applications for internal and external communications
• Affinity for New York Public Radio; WNYC and/or WQXR content and mission a plus

Note:    The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees, and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.  Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the employer.

New York Public Radio is an Equal Opportunity Employer and invites and encourages qualified applicants from all walks of life.

Click on the link to see a more detailed position specification and to Apply:  www.wnyc.org/careers 

Please submit cover letter with salary requirements and resume.  New York Public Radio must receive all information requested in order to consider your candidacy.

COMPANY PROFILE – ABOUT NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO

"To make the mind more curious, the heart more open and the spirit more joyful."  - New York Public Radio Mission Statement

New York Public Radio is home to three of the country’s leading public radio stations—WNYC 93.9 FM, WNYC AM 820, and WQXR 105.9 FM—as well as the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space. As America’s most listened-to public radio stations* and New York's premier multi-platform public radio franchise, it collectively reaches a monthly audience of more than11.5 million.

WNYC and wnyc.org: WNYC is a major producer of original, award-winning local and national content. It originates for public radio nationwide programs and podcasts like Radiolab, The Takeaway, Freakonomics, On The Media and Studio 360. WNYC maintains a centralized newsroom and its award-winning reporters contribute regularly to online and local news broadcasts and to the nationally-distributed news programs Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Marketplace and The Takeaway. Also, WNYC produces the signature daily programs The Brian Lehrer Show, The Leonard Lopate Show, Soundcheck and New Sounds. Five WNYC programs — Radiolab, On the Media, Studio 360, The Brian Lehrer Show, and Radio Rookies, its youth journalism program serving teens in all five boroughs, have been recognized with George Foster Peabody Awards, the highest honor in broadcasting journalism. WNYC’s original content is available to people wherever they are via mobile platforms, online audio streams, podcasts and social media.  In addition, WNYC presents the best national offerings from networks National Public Radio, Public Radio International, American Public Media, and the British Broadcasting Company, broadcasting a wide range of daily news, talk, cultural and music programming.

WQXR and wqxr.org: Classical 105.9 WQXR is New York City’s sole classical music station, presenting new and landmark classical recordings as well as live concerts from the Carnegie Hall, Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic, among other New York City venues, immersing listeners in the city’s rich musical life.  WQXR.org  also hosts Q2, an HD broadcast and web stream dedicated to discovery, giving listeners an opportunity to experience exceptional music, classic and contemporary, that they likely have not heard before.  WQXR’s smart, engaging hosts provide distinctive context for the music they love to play. And wqxr.org serves the global classical music community through online listening, playlists, host blogs and New York City cultural news. WQXR also offers Metropolitan Opera Radio Saturday Matinee Broadcasts, The Philharmonic This Week, McGraw Hill Young Artists Showcase evenings, and Symphony Hall.

The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space and thegreenespace.org:  Our street-front broadcast studio and performance venue produces a full season of original programming – as well as WNYC and WQXR shows, concerts and events – for live, radio and online audiences. It is becoming an anchor in our growing, exciting Hudson Square neighborhood in lower Manhattan.

(*Source:  Arbitron)