Payroll & Benefits Manager

Description

The Payroll & Benefits Manager plays a critical role in ensuring Valiant Residential delivers a seamless, accurate, and exceptional People experience for all Team Members. This role oversees all aspects of payroll administration, benefits operations, compliance, and HRIS optimization—serving as a subject-matter expert and trusted partner to leaders, onsite teams, and corporate departments. This position requires deep hands-on expertise with Paylocity, including advanced workflow management, reporting, configuration, and troubleshooting. The Payroll & Benefits Manager owns the integrity of payroll and benefits data, drives continuous improvement, and ensures our People operations reflect the Valiant Spirit of excellence, accuracy, and care. 

With over 37 years of experience, Valiant Residential is a next-generation property management leader, uniquely attuned to the needs of property owners and residents. We are driven by a Valiant Spirit—bold, innovative, and committed to excellence—fostering prosperous partnerships and long-term success. Our team thrives on collaboration, integrity, and strategic thinking, making a meaningful impact in the industry.

• Own end-to-end payroll processing for multi-state, multi-entity operations with weekly and semi-monthly cycles. 
• Ensure accurate calculation of wages, bonuses, commissions, overtime, deductions, garnishments, and retroactive adjustments. 
• Maintain and audit payroll records, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and data integrity. 
• Lead payroll reconciliations, general ledger mapping/exports, and coordination with Accounting/Finance. 
• Manage year-end processes including W-2s, taxable fringe reporting, and audits. 
• Develop, maintain, and optimize Paylocity workflows, settings, configuration, and automations. 
• Monitor timekeeping compliance, review timecards, and provide guidance to managers and onsite teams. 
• Serve as the escalation point for payroll questions, issues, and exception handling. 

• Maintain compliance with FLSA, federal and state wage laws, payroll tax requirements, and benefit-related regulations. 
• Partner with Finance on payroll tax filings, audits, and periodic reviews. 
• Manage HRIS/payroll reporting for leadership, Finance, and audits (internal, external, SOX, workers’ comp, etc.). 
• Ensure policies, procedures, and documents remain up-to-date and compliant. 

• Act as system owner for payroll, time & labor, benefits, workflows, and reporting. 
• Build and maintain dashboards, custom reports, workflows, forms, and onboarding/offboarding automations. 
• Troubleshoot system-related issues and partner with Paylocity representatives on escalations. 
• Document processes and drive continuous optimization of People operations within the system. 

• Provide timely, accurate, and customer-focused support to employees, People Leaders, and corporate partners. 
• Train managers and onsite teams on payroll, timekeeping, and benefits processes as needed. 
• Support the People & Culture team in cross-functional projects and strategic initiatives. 

Requirements

• Required: Advanced, hands-on experience with Paylocity—payroll, time & labor, benefits, workflows, reporting, and configuration. 
• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field preferred. 
• 5+ years of progressively responsible multi-site and multi-state payroll and benefits experience required 
• Strong understanding of wage and hour laws, payroll tax principles, and benefits compliance, particularly in states that Valiant Residential does business.  
• Experience in property management, hospitality, or multi-site environments preferred. 
• Exceptional attention to detail, accuracy, and confidential handling of information. 
• Ability to manage competing deadlines in a fast-paced, growing organization. 
• Strong interpersonal skills with a team-oriented, customer-service mindset. 
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and data reconciliation methodologies.  
• In-office presence required.

Valiant Residential does not accept unsolicited resumes or candidate submissions from staffing agencies or third-party recruiters for any posted positions. Any unsolicited resumes received will be considered property of Valiant Residential, and no placement fees will be paid. All official recruiting communications from Valiant Residential will come from an @valiantresidential.com email address. If you receive outreach from a different email domain claiming to represent us, please verify the legitimacy of the communication before responding.

Valiant Residential is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and ensuring equal opportunity in employment for qualified persons with disabilities. We provide reasonable accommodations to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions, participate in the hiring process, and enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a position or to perform your job, please contact jobs@valiantresidential.com. Requests will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis in accordance with applicable laws.