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Salary: USD 110,000 - 140,000 / annual
Senra Systems is a manufacturing software company that transforms electrical wire harness production through software configuration. The Payroll Manager will own end-to-end payroll administration for the company, ensuring accurate, timely payroll while maintaining strong wage-and-hour compliance. This is a key partnership role with the People and Finance teams, with particular focus on the complexities of a largely non-exempt workforce, timekeeping practices, payroll controls, and California wage-and-hour requirements.
Key responsibilities include:
- Manage end-to-end payroll processing for a rapidly growing workforce, ensuring completeness, accuracy, timeliness, and appropriate review and controls
- Serve as the internal subject matter expert on federal, state, and local payroll and wage-and-hour requirements, with strong emphasis on California compliance for non-exempt employees
- Oversee timekeeping administration and compliance, including missed punches, meal-period exceptions, rest-period premiums, overtime, double time, shift differentials, and other pay practices impacting hourly employees
- Review payroll inputs and time records for accuracy and compliance; identify trends or recurring exceptions and partner with managers and the People team to correct root causes
- Maintain accurate payroll records and support compliance with wage statement, payroll recordkeeping, tax, garnishment, deduction, and reporting requirements
- Own payroll tax filings, reconciliations, W-2 preparation, quarterly and year-end activities, and coordination with payroll vendors and applicable agencies
- Partner with the People team on payroll-related changes associated with new hires, terminations, leaves of absence, compensation changes, benefits deductions, and employee status changes
- Serve as the primary point of contact for employee payroll questions and discrepancies, resolving issues promptly, professionally, and with appropriate discretion
- Develop, document, and maintain payroll procedures, controls, audit practices, and escalation protocols to reduce risk and improve accuracy and consistency
- Educate employees and managers on timekeeping expectations and wage-and-hour best practices
- Partner with People, Finance, Legal, and business leaders on payroll audits, compliance reviews, investigations, and remediation efforts
- Continuously evaluate and improve payroll processes, systems, reporting, and controls to support scale, efficiency, data integrity, and employee experience
- Support payroll and timekeeping system implementations, upgrades, integrations, testing, and configuration changes, including Rippling-related initiatives
- Prepare and analyze payroll reports, reconciliations, and metrics; identify anomalies and provide clear information to internal stakeholders
Note: This position has no direct supervisory responsibilities at this time; however, the Payroll Manager serves as the functional owner of payroll processes and may provide guidance or training to employees and managers on payroll and timekeeping practices.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years of progressive payroll experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Demonstrated experience administering payroll for a significant non-exempt/hourly employee population, including complex timekeeping and wage-and-hour issues
- Strong working knowledge of federal and state payroll tax requirements and wage-and-hour regulations, including California requirements applicable to non-exempt employees
- Deep understanding of timekeeping, overtime, meal and rest period compliance, regular-rate calculations, final pay, deductions, payroll recordkeeping, and wage statement requirements
- Strong payroll reconciliation, auditing, and problem-solving skills with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail
- Ability to identify compliance risks, investigate discrepancies, determine root causes, and implement practical corrective actions
- Ability to explain payroll and wage-and-hour requirements clearly to employees, managers, and non-specialist stakeholders
- Proficiency with a major payroll/HRIS platform and advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage competing deadlines in a rapidly changing environment
- Demonstrated discretion and sound judgment when handling confidential employee and compensation information
- Strong cross-functional partnership skills with People, Finance, Legal, Operations, and business leaders
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Hands-on experience with Rippling payroll and timekeeping
- Experience supporting payroll in a manufacturing, aerospace, or other operational environment with a substantial hourly workforce
- Experience partnering with People and Finance on payroll audits, wage-and-hour reviews, system implementations, integrations, or process redesign
- Experience building scalable payroll procedures, controls, reporting, and manager education programs in a high-growth organization
Note: ITAR requirements apply—applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, Refugee, or Asylee, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
