Our Payroll Manager is a key role within the WPS Finance Department and responsible for overseeing all WPS payroll related disbursements and other transactions to employees. This leader will have a strong customer service focus, leadership skills with a continuous process improvement focus and an affinity for learning, implementing and optimizing new technologies.
In this role you will:
Ensure accurate and timely payroll payment and reporting.
Create strong working relationships with WPS outsourced payroll vendor, including monitoring adherence to service level agreements.
Maintain accurate payroll accounting by working with Finance partners to properly record transactions and reconcile accounts, to include managing monthly closing of financial records, month-end accrual and related entries, preparation of account reconciliations to ensure accuracy and completeness of payroll information within financial statements.
Provide excellent customer service for WPS employees, business partners, and other stakeholders, including prompt issue resolution.
Develop Payroll talent through hiring, performance monitoring, training, and coaching.
Drive continuous improvement through proactive planning, process redesign, and system enhancements; represent Payroll teams on WPS enterprise process improvement and policy teams, including providing ideas for improvement and implementation recommendations.
Ensure WPS adherence to all regulatory requirements, including oversight of compliance with Service Contract Act regulations and interpretation and implementation of changes as required by federal and state government agencies, bargaining union contact, company policy, or benefit changes
This role could be a good fit if you:
Are seeking a challenge to showcase your management skills and payroll processing talents with an opportunity to make improvements for a first-class organization
If you thrive in a dynamic environment that does not fear change
Are a continuous innovator who stretches boundaries and continually seeks out new ways to solve tough problems in a complex business environment
Have worked with an enterprise resource planning (ERP) financial system with strong ability to master new systems/technologies
You'll benefit from this experience by:
Gaining experience in Federal Contracting
Growing your leadership skills in an environment that encourages creativity and innovation
Working in an environment that employees over 3,000 talented individuals serving US Military members and their families, the Medicare population as well as citizens of Wisconsin for their health insurance needs
You need to have:
U.S. citizenship is required for this position due to U.S. Department of Defense restrictions
Bachelor's Degree in related field or equivalent post high school and/or related work experience
3 or more years of related work and/or leadership experience
We strongly prefer:
5 or more years of payroll, accounts payable or accounting experience, to include 3 or more years of supervisory experience
Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
Certified Payroll Professional (CPP)
Deltek (CostPoint and Time and Expense modules) experience
Demonstrated experience leading payroll processing, administration, and systems
Your team:
This team includes 3 Payroll Specialists and 1 Payroll Business Analyst.
Compensation and Benefits
Eligible for annual Performance Bonus Program
401(k) with dollar-per-dollar match up to 6% of salary
Competitive paid time off
Health and dental insurance start DAY 1
Vision insurance
Flexible spending, dependent care, and health savings accounts
Short- and long-term disability, group life insurance
Dress for your day
Innovative professional and cognitive development programs
Who We Are
WPS Health Solutions is an innovator in health insurance and a worldwide leader in claims administration, serving millions of beneficiaries in the United States and abroad.
Founded in 1946, WPS offers health insurance plans for individuals, families, and seniors, and group plans for small and large businesses. We are a world-class claims processor and program administrator for the government's Medicare program. And we manage benefits for millions of active-duty and retired military personnel and their families.
Our purpose is to make healthcare easier for those we serve. Click Here
Our values - Customer Focused, Individual Responsibility, Mutual Respect, and Driven & Passionate - are the core of who we are and how we conduct business every day.
WPS Health Insurance
WPS Health Insurance offers high-quality health insurance plans for individuals and families, Medicare supplement plans for seniors, and group health plans for businesses of every size.
WPS Military and Veterans Health administers claims and provides customer service and related activities for the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and their beneficiaries.
WPS Government Health Administrators manages Medicare Part A and Part B benefits for more than 7 million beneficiaries. As one of the largest contractors for the Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services, we've served Medicare beneficiaries and their health care providers since 1966.
WPS Health Plan offers Health Maintenance Organization and Point-of-Service plans to the group and individual markets in eastern and north-central Wisconsin, plus third-party administrator services.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
