Company: Oak Street Health 

Title: Payroll Manager

Location: Downtown Chicago (30 W. Monroe St.)

Oak Street Health is a rapidly growing, innovative company of community-based healthcare centers delivering higher quality health and wellness care that improves outcomes, manages medical costs and provides an unmatched experience for adults on Medicare in medically underserved communities. By providing holistic, comprehensive and integrated care right in our patients’ communities, we can help keep them healthy and reinvest cost savings in further care for those same communities and others. Since 2013, Oak Street Health has brought its singular approach to tens of thousands of people across the nation. With an ambitious growth trajectory, Oak Street Health is attracting and cultivating team members who embody Oak Street values and are passionate about our mission to rebuild healthcare as it should be.

For more information, visit www.oakstreethealth.com.

Role Description:

The Payroll Manager will oversee and supervise the organizations payroll functions, ensuring pay is processed on time, accurately, and in compliance with government regulations.

Core Responsibilities:

• Implements, maintains, and reviews payroll processing systems, along with third party payroll vendors, to ensure timely and accurate processing of payroll transactions including salaries, benefits, garnishments, taxes, and other deductions.

• Ensures accurate and timely processing of payroll updates including new hires, terminations, and changes to pay rates.

• Prepares and maintains accurate records and reports of payroll transactions.

• Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local payroll, wage, and hour laws and best practices.

• Partner with payroll vendor to work with federal and state agencies to set up new client payroll accounts

• Load agency notices into payroll tool and work with agencies or payroll provider to resolve

• Assist with navigating payroll garnishments and levy notices 

• Assist with researching tax regulations affecting employee compensation, fringe benefits, and payments to non-residents

• Produce payroll reports using ADP Workforce NOW and Workday HRIS

• W2 and W2c management

• Assemble all necessary government documents with regards to taxes and providing explanations to pressing tax issues and queries

• Work as a specialist on payroll subject matter and as a resource to other personnel in the aspect of processing payroll

• Evaluate yearly tax questionnaires from customers; connect with clients, trust administrators, tax authorities and advocates, to handle the suitable information for customers 

• Carry out research and evaluating or settling complicated technical issues or queries forwarded by colleagues, department personnel and external company representatives

• Give authorization to and evaluate or input payroll operations and associated data.

• Facilitates audits by providing records and documentation to auditors.

• Identifies and recommends updates to payroll processing software, systems, and procedures.

• May supervise 1-2 employees over time.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

What are we looking for?

We’re looking for motivated, experienced Payroll Manager with:

• 5-7 years experience managing a multi-state payroll department

• Extensive knowledge of Workday Payroll.

• Proficient at Google applications including Sheets and Docs and Microsoft Excel.

• Working experience of payroll tax at the federal, state and local levels.

• Ability to manage and lead staff to excellent performance.

• Must be a team player.

• Must be highly organized.

• Prior system conversion experience, a plus.

• US work authorization.

• Someone who embodies being “Oaky”.

What does being “Oaky” look like?

Radiating positive energy

Assuming good intentions

Creating an unmatched patient experience

Driving clinical excellence

Taking ownership and delivering results

Being scrappy

Why Oak Street?

Oak Street Health offers our coworkers the opportunity to be at the forefront of a revolution in healthcare, as well as:

• Collaborative and energetic culture

• High levels of responsibility and rapid advancement

• Headquarters (the “Treehouse”) located in the heart of Downtown, close to many public transit options and great restaurants 

• Competitive benefits; including paid vacation/sick time, generous 401K match with immediate vesting, as well as health benefits
   

Oak Street Health is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and encourage all interested readers to apply to oakstreethealth.com/careers.