Payroll Manager (Part-time)

Location: Northwest Denver Campus

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Job Summary

The Part-Time Payroll Manager oversees the end-to-end payroll operations for the institution, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant salary and wage disbursements for faculty, staff, student workers, and adjuncts. Operating in a higher education environment, this role manages complex compensation structures (e.g., academic year vs. fiscal year appointments, stipends, overload pay, and student employment regulations).

As a working manager, this individual serves as the primary escalation point for complex operational issues, leads continuous improvement initiatives within the payroll function, spearheads compliance planning, and designs and delivers robust Workday Payroll training for campus users (such as department administrators and HR partners).

Major Duties and Responsibilities

Payroll Operations & Escalation Management

• Oversee the accurate and timely processing of semi-monthly/monthly multi-cycle payrolls for all employee groups using Workday Payroll.
• Serve as the final escalation point for complex payroll discrepancies, exception handling, tax inquiries, garnishments, and retroactive pay adjustments.
• Partner with Human Resources and Information Technology to troubleshoot system integration issues, interface errors, and data discrepancies between Workday HR and Payroll.
• Ensure proper handling of specialized higher education pay practices (e.g., faculty summer pay, grants funding allocations, stipends, and fellowships).