Job Description

Equal Opportunity Employer: Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran

Waste Management (WM), a Fortune 250 company, is the leading provider of comprehensive waste and environmental services in North America. We are strongly committed to a foundation of operating excellence, professionalism and financial strength. WM serves nearly 25 million customers in residential, commercial, industrial and municipal markets throughout North America through a network of collection operations, transfer stations, landfills, recycling facilities and waste-based energy production projects.

I. Job Summary
Dedicated project team member of the implementation of the Oracle Human Capital Management (HCM) system reporting directly to the HCM Project Leader with dotted line reporting to the Director of WMSC Payroll. This position will manage teams through the design, build, test and deploy phases of the project focused on payroll processing and program management. The Payroll Lead is a functional expert that will drive standardization with a focus on collaboration, innovation and employee experience.

Post-implementation, this role is expected to transition over to the WM Service Center team as the Sr. Manager of Payroll. Primary responsibilities include managing the employees and activities of the Payroll Team responsible for processing and delivering the payroll for the Companys employees in US and Canada.

II. Essential Duties and Responsibilities
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other duties may be assigned.

* Consistently demonstrates Waste Managements Commitments and Values

Oracle HCM Implementation

* Coordinates with SMEs as required and manage teams through the design, build, test and deploy phases of the project; provides weekly status reporting, risk and issue log and project plan updates. Elevates issues that would place project deliverables and timeline at risk to PMO. Keeps Director, Payroll informed.
* Drives the team to meet project plan deliverables and timeline with a focus on standardization, simplification, and alignment of business processes across the enterprise.
* Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with peer leads.
* Reviews and provides input on system development, deployment of payroll processes, communication materials and training.
* Facilitates future state design sessions around the HCM and end-to-end solution. Recommends and advises on enhancement, defect, change requests and prioritization.
* Leads and reviews the development of design specifications and configuration iterations. Participate in configuration of the solution, HCM configuration validation sessions after each iteration, in all areas of testing.

Post-Implementation

* Leads a team responsible for the end-to-end payroll processing of gross-to-net payroll for over 48,000 employees; this includes the accurate and timely delivery of weekly, bi-weekly and off-cycle payrolls.
* Oversees the data inputs to the payroll and timekeeping systems related to the gross-to-net payroll calculations, including time records, incentive payments, HR inputs, deductions, and various submissions from third parties.
* Monitors each payroll cycle to ensure that all required data sources are captured and uploaded accurately and timely, and that all payroll process steps are successfully completed.
* Reviews payroll submissions and prioritizes accordingly; ensures union-related requests are made timely.
* Works with the Digital team on all new releases, tax updates and programming changes to the payroll system; through User Acceptance Testing ensures that there are no adverse impacts to payroll or employees.
* Works closely with the Corporate and Field People Teams on any timekeeping or payroll related issues and follows through to resolution. Also, responsible for responding to pay issues reported by employees.
* Responsible for compliance with SOX controls related to payroll processing and disbursements.
* Coordinates payroll funding with Treasury and maintains working relationships with banks, check print vendor, online pay provider, FedEx/UPS, etc.
* Keeps informed of legislation and regulatory rulings impacting payroll. Works with Legal and People teams to identify potential impacts and implements changes as required
* Develops and maintains process performance reporting to ensure service levels are met.

III Supervisory Responsibilities
The highest level of supervisory skills required in this job is the management of supervisory employees. This includes:

* Direct supervision of payroll associates
* Performance coaching and talent development; develop an effective high-performing team

IV. Qualifications
The requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to perform the job.

A. Education and Experience

* Education: Bachelors Degree(accredited) in Accounting, Business Administration or similar area of study, or in lieu of degree, High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and four (4) years of relevant experience.
* Experience: Seven (7) years of payroll experience. Three (3) years of experience managing a team administering enterprise-wide payroll with accountability for ensuring system configuration and processes are in place to ensure the integrity and compliance of the function (in addition to education requirement).

B. Certificates, Licenses, Registrations or Other Requirements

* None required.
* Preferred: Certified Payroll Professional (CPP).

C. Other Knowledge, Skills or Abilities Required

* Demonstrated experience in overseeing payroll policies/practices and system projects is required.
* Extensive knowledge of US multi-state and Canada payroll, programs and processes along with functional knowledge of EDM, Garnishments, Payroll Tax and Benefits.
* Preferred: Oracle Cloud HCM/Payroll.
* People-first mindset.
* Leadership & Management.
* Communication, active listener.
* Innovative, inquisitive.
* Organization skills.
* Analytical thinking.
* Attention to detail.
* Payroll process, policy and practice expertise (business processes and system enablement)
* Focus on continuous process improvements and simplification.
* Stakeholder management.
* Project Management.

V. Work Environment
Listed below are key points regarding environmental demands and work environment of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

* Normal setting for this job is a combination of office setting or work from home (remote)

Benefits
At Waste Management, each eligible employee receives a competitive total compensation package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance and Short Term Disability. As well as a Stock Purchase Plan, Company match on 401K, and more! Our employees also receive Paid Vacation, Holidays, and Personal Days. Please note that benefits may vary by site.

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