US Payroll Manager VP

Join Barclays as the US Payroll Manager VP, where you'll have the chance to lead and elevate a high‑performing payroll organization supporting colleagues across the US, Canada, and Brazil. You’ll guide teams in delivering an accurate, timely, compliant, and resilient payroll service that consistently meets the highest operational standards. In this role, you’ll shape and oversee payroll processes to deliver compensation spanning base pay, incentive programs, global mobility, and business‑travel‑related taxation. You’ll drive excellence across all payment processes while championing innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

To be successful as an US Payroll Manager VP, you should have:

• Leading end‑to‑end payroll activities and managing dispersed teams in large, multi‑faceted organizations, preferably within financial services (11,000 colleagues on payroll)

• Managing global payroll ecosystems, platforms, and related integrations – specifically, ADP EV6, WFN and Smart Compliance, Workday HCM, Time, Absence & Payroll modules, to streamline operations, improve data accuracy and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements across organizational structures

• Overseeing payroll legislation, tax, financial, and regulatory controls; governance; risk management; and HR policy, including IRS/CRA requirements and other key payroll submissions

Other highly valued skills and experience include:

• Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) designation or equivalent knowledge of Sarbanes‑Oxley requirements and typical internal audit standards

• Experience with Agile project management, driving cross‑functional collaboration, iterative delivery, and continuous improvement to enhance payroll system implementations and process optimization

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including complex formulas, pivot tables, VLOOKUP, data validation, and macro‑based automation to support detailed payroll analysis and reporting

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in New York, NY.

Minimum Salary: $110,000

Maximum Salary: $190,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate above information includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Purpose of the role

To manage payroll functions, including calculating employee pay, withholding taxes, and any other deductions, as well as maintaining accurate payroll records for the business. 

Accountabilities

• Processing of payroll for hourly, salaried, and commissioned employees, calculating tax and other contributions, withholding, and paying out as appropriate.
• Employee payroll record administration and troubleshooting.
• Guidance and support to employees on all payroll matters, including queries related to calculations of salaries and wages, overtime, bonuses, and commissions.
• Compliance related statutory filings including the management of the reply to Government institution notices related to all Statutory obligations.
• Payroll statutory reporting and filing including liaison with relevant local tax authorities.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.