Payroll Manager

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of .
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

The Payroll Manager will assume a leadership role in training and mentoring specific work stream employees as well as other internal and external leadership. Serve as a leader directing and executing all payroll activities, assuring weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annually key deadlines are met. Continually working on streamlining and automation of tasks to assist employees the ability to work more efficiently. This position works out of our headquarters in Corporate Human Resources division.

What You’ll Work On

• Assist Payroll Director with crisis management/risk mitigation.
• This may include processing job evaluations, salary increases, appointments, absences, retirements, and terminations.
• Lead, direct, evaluate, and develop a team of para-professional staff to ensure that HR records management, processing, and other administrative activities are completed on time and within established budgets.
• Activities of the team may include accounting, distributing and preparing payments, benefits, taxes, and payroll deductions, calculating overtime, shift payments, sales commissions, and bonuses, maintaining payroll records.
• Coach and mentor team members and assign tasks to ensure that the team’s resources are used effectively.
• Position must network internally to build partnerships to be effective in an environment that is not supported by mandates
• Serve as a project leader directing and executing all payroll activities
• Work with the business to determine how to assure that we are following all compliance and company policies.
• Work with Payroll Director to communicate and implement changes to assure that the department and company goals are reached

Required Qualifications

• Associate Degree
• A minimum of 8 years of related experience
• Travel: 15%

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Payroll Professional

• Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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