Sr. Payroll Manager

Your Title: Sr. Payroll Manager

Job Location: Dayton, OH-Hybrid
Our Department: Finance

Are you an experienced payroll leader ready to take ownership of a complex, high-impact payroll function? Join our team as a Sr. Payroll Manager and lead critical payroll operations for a diverse workforce across the Americas.

What You Will Do

• Lead and oversee end-to-end payroll processing for ~4,800 employees across the US, Canada and Latin America, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timeliness across multiple legal entities, including complex payroll elements such as RSUs, executive compensation, and multi-jurisdictional tax regulations.

• Drive continuous improvement by evaluating payroll systems, policies, and workflows, implementing best practices and innovative solutions to enhance operational efficiency and data integrity.

• Work closely with Finance, HR, and Benefits teams to ensure seamless integration and reporting accuracy.

• Serve as the key point of escalation and subject matter expert for complex payroll issues, regulatory audits, and compliance matters.

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing payroll team, fostering a culture of accountability, accuracy, and service excellence.

• Own the relationship with third-party payroll providers and vendors, negotiating service agreements and ensuring SLAs are met.

• Partner with cross-functional leadership to support organizational changes, system implementations, and compliance initiatives impacting payroll.

What Skills & Experience You Should Bring

• Minimum of 7+ years progressive payroll experience with increasing leadership responsibilities, including managing teams and payroll vendors.

• Deep expertise with payroll systems (including ADP Workforce Now preferred) and Workday Integrations (Third Party Payroll Cloud Connector - TPPCC).

• Proven ability to lead payroll for large, complex workforces in multiple countries, specifically US and Canada, including equity compensation plans like RSUs and bonuses.

• Public company payroll experience is strongly preferred due to the complexity of RSU administration and regulatory compliance.

• Strong knowledge of payroll tax compliance, multi-state and multi-provincial regulations, and audit readiness.

• Demonstrated change management skills with a track record of implementing process improvements and system upgrades.

• Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills to collaborate across Finance, HR, Legal, and external partners.

• Finance acumen related to payroll accruals, prepayments, and journal entries is highly desirable.

About Your Location

Trimble's Dayton, Ohio site, located at 5475 Kellenburger Rd, Dayton, OH 45424, serves as a significant hub for the company's operations. In 2018, Trimble inaugurated a 65,000-square-foot indoor development, testing, and training dome in Huber Heights, enhancing its capabilities in product development and employee training. Further demonstrating its commitment to growth, Trimble initiated a $12 million expansion in 2019, nearly doubling its warehouse space to approximately 300,000 square feet. This expansion not only underscores Trimble's dedication to innovation but also its role in bolstering the local economy.

With a presence in the Dayton area for over 60 years, Trimble continues to be a pivotal player in the community, contributing to both technological advancements and employment opportunities. For more information about Trimble and its operations, you can visit their official website at www.trimble.com.

About Trimble's Finance Department

Trimble's Finance team plays a central role in the company's financial health, strategy, and operations. The team is led by the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Phil Sawarynski, and is responsible for all worldwide finance operations. The finance department is structured to support the company's diverse business segments, which include construction, geospatial, agriculture, and transportation.

In a hybrid role, you will work with your manager to establish a mutually agreeable schedule for your time working in the office based on the position and the business need. Typically hybrid positions are 1-3 days per week, or 20%-60% of the month in the office.

Trimble's Inclusiveness Commitment

We believe in celebrating our differences. That is why our diversity is our strength. To us, that means actively participating in opportunities to be inclusive. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion have guided our current success while also moving our desire to improve. We actively seek to add members to our community who represent our customers and the places we live and work.

We have programs in place to make sure our people are seen, heard, and welcomed and most importantly that they know they belong, no matter who they are or where they are coming from.

Trimble's Privacy Policy

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Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

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Bonus Eligible?

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Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans. Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

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