# Payroll Manager

Role Description: We are seeking a highly experienced Payroll Manager to lead the payroll function through a significant period of change. This role offers the opportunity to drive a payroll transformation while also overseeing day-to-day delivery for a complex, high-volume US employee population. You will play a key role in shaping the future payroll operating model, ensuring compliance, building strong vendor relationships, and delivering a seamless employee experience. Key Responsibilities: Transformation and Implementation Lead the end-to-end implementation of a new payroll provider, ensuring business needs and processes are captured and translated into functional requirements Act as the primary payroll SME during the implementation process, helping design and embed new payroll processes, systems, and controls Establish and embed the managed service model, ensuring clear processes, service levels, and accountability between the business and vendor Build and maintain robust governance and compliance controls to ensure payroll accuracy, timeliness, and adherence to US federal, state, and local regulations Partner with HR, Finance, HRIS specifically Payroll and Workforce Managemen

- **Id**: 4285580
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ardagh-group-payroll-manager>
- **Role**: Finance
- **Role family**: Finance
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Chicago, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T21:43:20Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T21:43:20Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6082
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Glass & Ceramics Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 1784323
- **Name**: Ardagh Group
- **Domain**: ardaghgroup.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ardaghgroup>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SuccessFactors

## Salary

- **Min**: 111900
- **Max**: 167900
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 167900

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Management years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: Advanced (C1); Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T21:43:20Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 25
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T22:19:53Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 167900
- **Is top pay**: yes

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