[Hiring] Payroll Accounting Manager @Monarch Communities

Role Description

Monarch Communities is hiring a Payroll Accounting Manager, a payroll manager/accountant role that owns our payroll function end-to-end. This role reports to the VP of Accounting and directly supervises our Payroll Specialists. Responsibilities include:

• End-to-end execution of all pay cycles (community and corporate, on-cycle and off-cycle) in Workday.
• Publishing and enforcing the payroll calendar, input deadlines, and audit/confirm checkpoints across the portfolio.
• Supervising, developing, and balancing workload across the Payroll Specialist team; owning error resolution and root-cause fixes.
• Designing and maintaining payroll process documentation, controls, and business-continuity coverage.
• Building standardized intake and onboarding workflows: new hire setup, status changes, and new position requisitions.
• Partnering with community and operations leadership on timesheet input standards and compliance.
• Owning payroll GL configuration in Workday and mapping to Yardi Voyager; producing and validating payroll journal entries, accruals, and billbacks.
• Reconciling payroll bank/clearing accounts; supporting month-end close, intercompany allocations, and audit requests.
• Designing and maintaining portfolio-wide corporate and regional salary allocation methodologies.
• Serving as primary relationship owner for our managed payroll services partner.
• Owning multi-state payroll tax posture: registrations, SUI rates, jurisdiction setup, and agency notice resolution across six states.
• Overseeing garnishments, W-2 season, and year-end processing, including unemployment claims coordination.
• Building and maintaining Workday payroll reports feeding portfolio labor metrics.
• Producing a monthly community payroll input scorecard for community and regional leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance required.
• 5–8+ years progressive payroll and/or payroll accounting experience; multi-state and multi-entity experience required (1,000+ employee scale strongly preferred).
• Demonstrated GL/accounting fluency: journal entries, account mapping, cost allocations, reconciliations, close support; Yardi exposure a plus.
• Experience designing payroll processes and driving field/manager accountability for data quality.
• Workday Payroll experience strongly preferred, including report writing; experience with a managed-payroll or BPO vendor relationship a significant plus.
• Payroll or HRIS system implementation experience a plus.
• Senior living, healthcare, or hospitality industry experience a plus.
• Working knowledge of multi-state wage & hour and payroll tax compliance (NJ, NY, PA, DE, MA, CT).

Benefits

• Health Insurance: Medical/Rx, Dental, and Vision
• Ancillary Benefits: Life Insurance/AD&D, Short Term Disability and Long-Term disability
• Basic Life & Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
• FSA (Commuter/Parking)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401(k) Retirement with Company Match
• Paid Time Off (PTO) and Holidays
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Referral Bonus
• Resident Referral Bonus

Company Description

At Monarch Communities, we value compassion, innovation, and community. Our team is committed to making a meaningful impact on the lives of our residents and fostering a collaborative and supportive work environment.