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Join Relias, the company changing lives throughout the world by helping healthcare organizations improve their clinical and financial outcomes!\nFor 11,000+ health care and human service organizations, Relias helps clients deliver better clinical and financial outcomes by elevating the performance of teams. We help organizations across the continuum of care get better at maintaining compliance, developing staff and promoting consistent, high-quality care. Our platform employs assessments to reveal specific gaps in skills and addresses them with personalized and engaging learning, choosing from 7,000+ online courses that meet accrediting board, state and federal requirements. We are passionate about our products and our clients; what we deliver and the impact we have on the world is truly something you can be proud to represent. Join us and make a difference.\nWHAT CAN RELIAS OFFER YOU?\nFantastic health and wellness benefits package, including an outstanding 401k match, a flexible PTO program, and a generous and inclusive parental leave policy. Additionally, Relias pays for the employee portion of the monthly healthcare premium!\nFlexible work environment with onsite and work from home options - you choose when you want to come into the office!\nActive Employee Resource Groups open to all employees!\nComprehensive onboarding program - a great introduction to our company, customers and culture!\nGrowth and career advancement opportunities!Promotes internal mobility and career growth aligned with evolving business needs\nMultiple development program options - leadership development, professional development curriculums, and Nanodegree options in both technology and data science\nProfessional development gained from conference attendance and participation in organizations like NC Tech\nOnsite 321 Coffee Shop providing free coffee and pastries to employees\n\nJob Description\nThe Manager, Payroll & Accounts Payable leads payroll, accounts payable, vendor master-data review, and travel-and-expense operations to ensure accurate, timely, controlled payments and reliable accounting records. The role sets operating priorities, manages and develops the team, owns escalations and control execution, and drives continuous improvement across recurring, deadline-sensitive processes. The Manager partners with Human Resources, Accounting, Legal, Tax, business stakeholders, and external providers to maintain compliance, safeguard confidential data, and reduce operational and fraud risk.\nWHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:\nTEAM LEADERSHIP & OPERATING MANAGEMENT\nLead Payroll and MDM Specialists and Accounts Payable Specialists by setting priorities, allocating work, reviewing quality, coaching performance, building capability, and maintaining coverage for critical deadlines.\n\nEstablish clear service expectations, escalation paths, process ownership, and operating routines across payroll, accounts payable, master data, travel and expense, and payments.\n\nPAYROLL GOVERNANCE & COMPLIANCE\nOversee scheduled and off-cycle payroll processing, including inputs, earnings, deductions, taxes, adjustments, funding, approvals, and final payroll controls.\n\nReview payroll registers, variances, exceptions, reconciliations, funding needs, and required approvals; document review results and resolve or escalate material issues.\n\nOwn payroll compliance operations, tax notices, records, audit support, year-end reporting including W2s, and escalated employee matters in coordination with HR, Tax, Legal, and external providers.\n\nACCOUNTS PAYABLE, EXPENSE & PAYMENT OPERATIONS\nOversee invoice validation, coding, approvals, posting, payment scheduling, refunds, employee reimbursements, aging, exceptions, and supplier inquiries to support accurate and timely disbursement.\n\nOversee payment runs, validate payment details and required approvals, coordinate funding, and resolve returned, voided, or exception payments.\n\nManage 1099 activities, unclaimed-property support, period-end requirements, and audit-ready documentation.\n\nMASTER DATA, CONTROLS & RISK MANAGEMENT\nOversee vendor master-data controls, including setup and change reviews, tax documentation, sanctions screening, duplicate detection, banking verification and record retention.\n\nMaintain effective controls across processing, review, approvals, master data, expenses, and payments, including segregation of duties, data protection, confidentiality, fraud prevention, documentation, and business continuity; identify control gaps and implement corrective action.\n\nPERFORMANCE, SYSTEMS & CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT\nMonitor service levels, backlogs, errors, deadlines, reconciliations, and team capacity; use data to identify root causes and prioritize corrective action.\n\nCoordinate payroll, payables, expense, and master-data issue resolution and testing with process owners, technical support, and external providers.\n\nImprove processes, reporting, documentation, automation, and use of approved AI-enabled productivity tools while maintaining human validation, access controls, and protection of confidential information.\n\nQualifications\nYOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES IF YOU HAVE:\n5+ years of progressive experience in payroll, accounts payable, accounting operations, or a related field, including substantial hands-on payroll processing and review of registers, payments, reconciliations, controls, and documentation.\n\n2+ years of direct people-management experience (formal or informal), including responsibility for work allocation, quality review, coaching, performance expectations, and deadline coverage.\n\nExperience managing multi-state payroll and at least one adjacent operating area such as accounts payable, vendor master data, employee expenses, payment operations, or accounting close support.\n\nBachelor's degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, Human Resources, or a related field.\n\nIT WOULD ALSO BE GREAT IF YOU HAD:\nExperience leading payroll and accounts-payable operations in a multi-state, multi-entity, or regulated environment.\n\nExperience with UKG or a comparable payroll/timekeeping platform; a major ERP such as Intacct, NetSuite, or SAP; and procure-to-pay or expense platforms such as Coupa or Concur.\n\nExperience with payroll taxes, wage and hour requirements, incentive compensation, vendor and payment controls, 1099s, unclaimed property, audits, and year-end reporting.\n\nCertified Payroll Professional (CPP); Fundamental Payroll Certification (FPC) may be considered with demonstrated management scope.\n\nAdditional Information\nIN OFFICE REQUIREMENT:\nRelias values collaboration and wants to ensure that our team members have opportunities to work with their teams regularly for professional development opportunities. Our flexible hybrid work environment requires that you live in the state of North Carolina, within a commutable distance to our office (~1-hour commute). You would be expected to work in our Morrisville, NC Headquarters (close to the Raleigh/Durham airport) approximately 30 days/quarter.\nRelias is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug-Free workplace. Relias welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities and is happy to make reasonable accommodations in all aspects of the selection process. 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