This position plays a critical role in maintaining compliance with wage and hour laws, tax regulations, and benefits administration requirements while continuously improving payroll and HR system processes.
Payroll & Benefits Manager Responsibilities:
- Manage full-cycle payroll processing across multiple legal entities and semi-monthly pay schedules.
- Ensure accurate onboarding of new hires and rehires across payroll, benefits, and retirement systems.
- Maintain compliance with I-9 verification and E-Verify requirements.
- Ensure proper worker classification in accordance with federal, state, and local regulations.
- Oversee payment of regular wages, bonuses, commissions, and other supplemental compensation.
- Ensure accurate tax withholdings, garnishments, third-party payments, and remittances.
- Coordinate year-end payroll activities, reconciliations, and statutory reporting.
- Serve as the primary administrator for payroll and timekeeping systems, ensuring accurate configuration and integration.
- Review and audit timecard data for accuracy, job coding, and overtime compliance.
- Identify opportunities to improve payroll, benefits, and timekeeping processes and system efficiency.
- Track and administer leave programs including FMLA and state-specific family and medical leave requirements.
- Support annual benefits planning, renewals, and open enrollment execution.
- Provide guidance to employees regarding benefit enrollments, qualifying life events, and COBRA administration.
- Audit benefits invoices for accuracy and eligibility and coordinate timely vendor payments.
- Track benefit eligibility and enrollment changes across all programs.
- Manage employee and employer contribution tracking for retirement plans.
- Ensure timely upload of 401(k) contributions following each payroll cycle.
- Serve as the primary liaison for retirement plan audits, ensuring accurate and timely data submission.
Payroll & Benefits Manager Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
- 7+ years of experience in payroll and benefits administration.
- Working knowledge of benefits regulations and compliance requirements, including ERISA, ACA, COBRA, HIPAA, FMLA, and applicable state laws.
- Familiarity with open enrollment processes, qualifying life events, and benefits eligibility rules.
- Strong working knowledge of payroll processing, tax compliance, garnishments, and wage regulations.
- Proficiency with payroll systems (Paylocity preferred) and Microsoft Office applications.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to explain complex benefits information clearly.
- Customer-service oriented mindset with experience supporting employees at all levels.
This position requires on-site accessibility to the Tinley Park, IL headquarters. This position can pay up to $115,000 annually and offers comprehensive benefits including health, dental, vision, 401k.
If you align with the qualifications of this job and are interested in learning more, apply today!
Rachel Holmes
Principal Recruiter
LaSalle Network
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LaSalle Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer m/f/d/v.
LaSalle Network is the leading provider of direct hire and temporary staffing services. For over two decades, LaSalle has helped organizations hire faster and connect top talent with opportunities, from entry-level positions to the C-suite. With units specializing in Accounting and Finance, Administrative, Engineering, Marketing, Technology, Supply Chain, Revenue Cycle, Call Center, Human Resources and Executive Search, LaSalle offers staffing and recruiting solutions to companies of all sizes and across all industries.