Manager Payroll

Company Description

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Job Description

The Manager, Payroll, Center of Expertise serves as a strategic consultant, execution leader, and governance owner, responsible for ensuring payroll compliance and continuous improvement across U.S. and Canadian payroll operations. This role is designed for a leader who can translate strategy into structured, executable plans, drive complex initiatives to completion, and lead sustained change across multiple stakeholders. Success requires disciplined planning, accountability, and follow‑through.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and own multi‑year and annual payroll roadmaps, prioritizing initiatives, sequencing work, and actively managing dependencies and risks.
• Design, implement, and sustain continuous improvement initiatives, supported by defined KPIs, effective risk management definition, and documented monitoring plans.
• Establish, govern, and support maintenance of standardized payroll policies and processes.  Ensure operational excellence within internal controls followed by operations team in HRS per Central Directives, ensuring consistent application and sustained compliance.
• Partner with Payroll Operations, HR, Finance, IT, and external vendors to drive adoption and execution of changes.
• Translate regulatory and legislative changes into actionable implementation plans, ensuring timely and scalable adoption across payroll operations.
• Act as a design and governance expert within SAP Payroll, influencing configuration, controls (in alignment with risk management), enhancements, and system integrations.
• Manage and support payroll audits and compliance assessments, including development and execution of remediation plans with clearly defined owners, milestones, and timelines.
• Provide payroll expertise within M&A activity, including due diligence, integration planning, execution, and post‑merger stabilization.
• Hold self and partners accountable for results, including progress tracking, risk escalation, and delivery against commitments.

What Success Looks Like in This Role

• Stakeholders have clear understanding of scope, timing, and ownership
• Initiatives move forward through planned milestones
• Changes are embedded and intentionally planned, communicated, and reinforced
• Risks are surfaced early and proactively
• Ensure sustainable compliance of payroll, resilient, and scalable over time

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field.
• 7+ years of progressive payroll experience, with deep expertise in U.S. payroll compliance; Canadian payroll experience preferred.
• Hands‑on SAP Payroll experience, including involvement in system design, controls, implementations, or major enhancements.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, multi‑stakeholder initiatives from concept through execution.
• Strong project management and change management capabilities, including planning, sequencing, and driving adoption.
• Proven ability to operate independently, manage priorities, and deliver on commitments in a matrixed environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading payroll workstreams for system implementations or large‑scale transformations.
• Prior responsibility for governance frameworks, audit remediation, or enterprise‑level compliance programs.

Additional Information

In addition to your base salary, Bosch offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, dental, and vision plans; health savings accounts (HSA); flexible spending accounts; 401(K) retirement plan with an attractive employer match; wellness programs; life insurance; short and long term disability insurance; paid time off; parental leave, adoption assistance; and reimbursement of education expenses. Learn more about our full benefits offerings by visiting: https://www.myboschbenefits.com/public/welcome. Pay ranges included in the postings generally reflect base salary; certain positions may include bonus, commission, or additional benefits.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability / veterans  

*Bosch adheres to Federal, State, and Local laws regarding drug-testing. Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a drug screen and background check. Candidates who have been offered the position must pass both screenings before their start date. 

BOSCH is a proud supporter of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) Initiatives

· FIRST Robotics (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology)

· AWIM (A World In Motion)

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