The Director, Payroll will manage a team of 7 payroll coordinators and analysts across the USA and Canada.  Responsibilities include ensuring smooth payroll processing across multiple systems and geographies, supporting complex manual payroll calculations, and improving payroll system efficiencies.  The role requires collaboration with regional payroll leads and finance teams, ensuring accurate time and attendance processes, and working across multiple payroll systems.  This key role reports to the Director of Group Finance and requires strong leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder engagement skills.

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					Business Unit: Company 3 Position: Director, Payroll Location: Atlanta, GA (Remote) *Pay Range: $111,000 - $153,000 USD Annually POSITION SUMMARY: Company3 (CO3) is a global leader in media and entertainment services for film, video and online content.&nbsp; With operations in Los Angeles, New York and around the globe, the company employs over 3,500 of the most talented, highly honored, and recognized artists and industry veterans worldwide.&nbsp; This position will manage the payroll team across Canada and the USA. This role reports directly to the Director of Group Finance. This is a key role responsible for providing, leadership and direction to the payroll team to ensure the payroll process runs smoothly across multiple systems and geographies. MAIN DUTIES: The Payroll Director will directly manage a team of 7 Payroll Co-ordinators and Analysts to facilitate the complex payroll across the USA and Canada. They will work alongside the Payroll Systems Manager to improve efficiencies in the systems and processes. They will support with complex manual payroll calculations due to requirements in different regions, states, businesses and countries. The Payroll Director will also do the following:<ul><li>Ensure time and attendance processes are effective and data actioned accurately.</li><li>Co-ordinate with other regional Payroll leads and Finance where required.</li><li>Work across multiple systems.</li></ul> WHAT YOU BRING: The ideal candidate will bring previous experience&nbsp;working in a senior payroll position. They will bring experience facilitating the payroll across large geographical areas. They will bring a demonstrated ability to understand complex payroll variances and complete manual calculations accordingly. They will bring an understanding of various payroll requirements across Canadian Provinces and US States beneficial. Other desired skills include:<ul><li>Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.</li><li>Track record of mentoring, developing and leading a team.</li><li>Experience working across multiple payroll systems.</li></ul> ABOUT THE COMPANY: Company 3, including its various business units and family of brands, provides a full range of Creative Services for content creators, including conceptual design, pre-vis, look development, ideation and rapid prototyping, 3D animation/CGI, motion graphics/designers, matte painting, compositing, dailies and production services, color grading, post-production finishing, marketing/trailers, live-action production, experiences, and more. Diversity and Inclusion at Company 3: Creativity has diversity at its core. We celebrate the value of each unique experience by being dedicated to fostering the most diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture where every employee feels empowered and safe to show up to work as their full self. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. Please inform the Company's HR representative if you need assistance completing any forms or otherwise need any accommodation or support in order to participate in the application process. *The listed pay range represents the lowest to highest range that we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the range may be based on several factors including, but limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, local currency exchange rates, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, applicable law, and business or organizational needs.&nbsp; The benefits for eligible part-time employees working 25 or more hours per week and full-time employees in the US include a comprehensive package of health, retirement, and insurance benefits and paid time off. The benefits for eligible project hires and part-time employees working less than 25 hours per week in the US include retirement, select insurance benefits, and where required by law, health benefits. For roles filled in Canada and other territories, local benefits plan offerings as adopted and amended from time to time will apply. The above compensation and benefits information is provided in accordance with various state, provincial, and local pay transparency laws. This position is for an existing vacancy. Both external and internal candidates can apply for this role through the Company’s Career Page. The Company generally only contacts those individuals who have submitted an application which it wishes to interview.&nbsp;The application window for this position is expected to close by April 23, 2025.				</div>

Director, Payroll