Interim Payroll & Benefits Supervisor / Manager

The role

This person will lead day-to-day payroll operations for a multi-state workforce of roughly 1,600 employees. The role involves payroll processing, benefits administration, and Workday configuration during a planned leave.

What you will do

• Supervise and coach the Payroll Coordinator
• Own payroll accuracy and approval across all populations
• Maintain payroll tax and regulatory compliance
• Operate and improve payroll controls and reconciliations
• Prepare recurring and ad hoc payroll reporting
• Partner with Accounting on internal and external audits
• Lead year-end readiness including W-2 processing
• Partner with Finance on payroll funding and journal entries
• Manage ADP, DailyPay and other payroll vendors
• Administer enrollments, eligibility and life events for benefits

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field
• 7+ years of progressive payroll experience, including multi-state US payroll and a combined hourly and salaried workforce
• Hands-on Workday experience, including payroll configuration or build, and in-house payroll processing in an ERP/HCM system
• Experience managing third-party payroll vendors and SLAs
• Working knowledge of benefits administration: enrollments, deductions, 401(k) and carrier reconciliation
• 2+ years leading or supervising payroll staff or a team
• Comfortable in a startup or growth-stage environment
• Advanced Excel proficiency
• Ability to communicate effectively with associates at all levels

Nice to have

• ADP experience, including integrations with Workday
• Workday payroll or HCM implementation or migration experience
• Dayforce experience
• SOX/ICFR payroll controls and audit support
• Hourly, high-volume operations workforce experience (fulfillment or distribution) in a high-growth company
• CPP, FPC or similar certification
• Prior interim or leave-coverage experience

About the company

Thrive Market is an online, membership-based market that delivers healthy and sustainable products. It is a Certified B Corporation, a Public Benefit Corporation, and a Climate Neutral Certified company.