Senior Payroll Manager

As the Sr. Payroll Manager, you will collaborate with the Director of Total Rewards to manage payroll processes and systems, to ensuring efficient and accurate payroll administration and compensation programs. You will utilize Deltek Vision ERP and ADP Workforce Now, ensuring compliance with multi-state regulatory requirements, maintaining the organization's relationship with ADP, time and collection systems, and system enhancements. Additionally, you will partner with the Employee Experience team to support the employee life cycle through payroll processes, from onboarding to offboarding, and continuously drive payroll process improvements, leveraging payroll analytics and internal controls to mitigate risks and optimize efficiency.

• Oversee payroll operations for the U.S. and Canada, ensuring accurate data processing, timely payments, post-processing audits, and ongoing payroll process improvements, while implementing risk management strategies and ensuring compliance with multi-state, provincial, and federal payroll regulations.

• Manage payroll compliance, audit data feeds, and respond to governmental requests, ensuring that all payroll processes align with current legislation and internal risk management protocols.

• Support HR, payroll administrators, and timekeepers by resolving payroll/time-related issues promptly, providing data-driven insights to enhance decision-making and improve payroll accuracy.

• Collaborate with the Employee Experience team to align payroll processes with the employee life cycle, including onboarding, promotions, transfers, and terminations, while ensuring data integrity and process consistency.

• Drive process improvements in ADP and Vision systems, focusing on efficiency, cost reduction, and employee experience, while documenting and maintaining SOPs, ensuring they meet best practice standards and are regularly updated.

• Ensure accurate compensation data is captured in ADP and Vision systems for compensation cycles and compliance with evolving laws, using payroll analytics to identify trends, inefficiencies, and areas for improvement.

• Lead multi-step monthly, quarterly, and year-end payroll processes, ensuring tax filings, reconciliation, and compliance with regulations, while proactively identifying and addressing risks.

• Manage and coach the payroll team, implement best practices, develop KPIs, and create tools for training, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and professional growth

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, or a related field, or equivalent experience. with a demonstrated ability to manage complex payroll operations and compliance. 

• 10+ years in payroll, accounting, or finance, with 4+ years in a supervisory role, leading payroll teams, and developing process optimization strategies.

• Expertise in process development and change management, with a strong understanding of payroll data analysis and reporting.

• Three years with ADP services and HCM platforms, supporting organizations with 3,000+ employees, including overseeing system integrations and ensuring scalability.

• Experience with prevailing wage rate compliance, certified payroll, and multi-state regulations, with a focus on ensuring risk mitigation and maintaining compliance with evolving standards.

• Experience collaborating with HR partners to support payroll across the employee life cycle, providing strategic input to improve employee experience and streamline payroll operations.

• International payroll vendor experience preferred, with a demonstrated ability to manage multi-country payroll processes and ensure compliance across multiple jurisdictions.

What Benefits You’ll Enjoy:  

We invest in us. Because our team members go above, below, and beyond the surface to care for our communities (inside and out), we do our best to take care of you by providing a comprehensive benefits package! Eligibility for some of the benefits outlined below is based on full-time work status; part-time and contingent positions are only eligible based on hours worked. If you have questions, contact careers@consoreng.com. 

• Career Growth & Development – Tuition reimbursement program, paid professional training, major license achievement bonus, extensive on-demand learning center, and paid professional memberships.  

• Work-Life Alignment – Industry-competitive PTO, seven paid holidays and two floating holidays, flexible work schedules, paid parental leave, and eligibility for hybrid and remote work options for some employees based on role responsibilities.  

• Wellness – Medical, dental and vision insurance, employee assistance program, fitness and wellness reimbursement, and HSA and FSA options.  

• Life – Employer-paid STD and LTD, employer-paid term life insurance, and retirement 401(k) with company match.  

• Community – Quarterly social events, paid group volunteering events, and employee resource groups.   

How Your Career Will Grow:  

We know career growth is not always linear or streamlined—it’s often squiggly. You may want to explore a management track, try a new technical track, or move laterally to reposition your skills and talents. No matter what level you join us at or how you want to shape your career, we want Consor to be a place where you can learn and grow.  

Why You’ll Love Consor:   

At Consor, you’ll work with a network of water and transportation professionals who specialize in planning, engineering design, structural assessment, and construction services. Across geographies, you’ll have access to the resources and nationwide expertise found in a large consulting firm, while experiencing a community feel at the local level. You’ll experience a culture where we share in our successes and support one another through challenges. Here, there are countless opportunities to explore your career path by working on projects that help you expand your potential and take your career to new heights! Join our diverse team of experts who live and work alongside client partners, providing thoughtful solutions to create inspiring communities together.  

How We Support Diversity:  

Consor welcomes and celebrates equality and diversity in the workplace. Throughout our teams and across leadership, Consor pursues an environment in which each employee and prospective employee is treated respectfully, valuing the uniqueness of individuals and differing perspectives and experiences. At the heart of this is ensuring employment practices at Consor provide and promote equal employment and development opportunity for all employees and prospective employees, in accordance with all local, state, and federal laws and regulations governing personnel activities. As such, Consor is an equal opportunity employer and pursues a program of affirmative action across its offices and worksites.  

If you need more information or special assistance for persons with disabilities or limited English proficiency, contact Human Resources at 888-451-6822 ext. 55214. Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Consor by using the Virginia Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). Call 711 for TTY/TDD.  

If any applicant believes they have been discriminated against or desires further information or assistance, contact us at 888-451-6822 ext. 55214.  

Notice: The above job description is intended to relay a general sense of the position's responsibilities and expectations. It does not describe all tasks that may be assigned. As business demands change, the essential functions of this position may also change. The position requires the successful completion of applicable pre-employment substance screening and background checks.