Manage bi-monthly multi-state payroll operations, ensure compliance with federal/state/local regulations, lead payroll system implementations and audits, analyze payroll data, prepare payroll journal entries and reconciliations, and serve as primary payroll contact for employees and leadership.
ROLE OVERVIEW
Pivot Energy is seeking an experienced, motivated, and self-directed Senior Payroll Manager to join our fast-growing Accounting team headquartered in Denver. This role supports both headquarters and regional offices and is primarily responsible for managing the company’s bi-monthly, multi-state payroll.
As a key leader within Accounting, the Senior Payroll Manager ensures payroll operations are executed accurately, on time, and in full compliance with all federal, state, and local payroll, wage, and hour regulations. This position plays a critical role in driving operational excellence, compliance, and continuous improvement across payroll processes.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead and oversee payroll operations for a multi-state workforce, ensuring timely and accurate payroll processing in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local regulations
- Serve as the primary point of contact for payroll-related inquiries from leadership and employees, providing clear, timely, and effective resolution
- Partner on and oversee internal and external payroll and 401(k) audits to identify discrepancies, ensure compliance, and improve efficiency
- Evaluate payroll issues and discrepancies, determine appropriate corrective actions, and escalate matters as needed
- Lead the implementation, optimization, and continuous improvement of payroll systems and processes to enhance accuracy and efficiency
- Generate, review, and analyze payroll reports to support financial planning, compliance, and leadership decision-making
- Lead payroll-related communications, including training, deadlines, process updates, and policy changes
- Collaborate with company leaders to ensure consistent payroll practices and alignment with business objectives across all locations
- Analyze payroll data to identify trends, risks, discrepancies, and opportunities for improvement
- Prepare and post monthly payroll-related journal entries; perform account reconciliations for payroll and benefit accounts in accordance with GAAP
- Support monthly accounts payable activities related to payroll, benefits, and payroll vendors
REQUIRED COMPETENCIES
- Seven (7) + years of Payroll management experience in a multi-state environment
- Five (5) +years of Accounting experiencece including journal entries, account reconciliations, and accounts payable
- Demonstrated expertise in payroll and accounting systems
- Comprehensive knowledge of federal, state, and local payroll regulations
- Strong organizational, planning, and analytical skills
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- High level of integrity and ability to maintain confidentiality of sensitive information
- Strong computer proficiency, including MS Office and Google Workspace
- Experience collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and reporting payroll data
PREFERRED COMPETENCIES
- Experience with Paycom or similar payroll/HRIS systems
- Experience with Sage Intacct or comparable accounting systems
- Prior experience supporting payroll system implementations
Recruitment Agency Notice:
We appreciate your interest in partnering with us; however, we are not seeking recruitment agency support for this role.
ABOUT PIVOT
Pivot Energy is a national renewable energy provider that develops, finances, builds, owns, and manages solar and energy storage projects that help decarbonize our nation’s electricity, increase equitable access to clean energy for local communities, and provide real cost-savings to American businesses and
families.
We are fiercely dedicated to accelerating the rapid transition taking place in the energy industry to a more decentralized and cleaner approach to power generation. We are committed to positively contributing to the local communities and people we serve with more than clean energy. We believe global warming poses an existential threat to our planet and that we have a responsibility to help mitigate the threat. Our portfolio includes projects that reduce energy burden for income-limited families, create workforce pathways for under-represented groups within the solar industry, and include robust community investment opportunities.
As a Certified B Corporation and one of Denver’s “Best Places to Work”, we believe that company success is driven by a healthy environment, thriving society, and workplace where all individuals are respected. We evaluate every internal decision on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors to determine if our actions will result in a net positive impact on the community, our employees, customers, shareholders, and the environment. Learn more in our annual ESG Report.
At Pivot, our core values guide our work internally and externally:
· Impact – We hold ourselves accountable to having a measurable impact on our people, communities, and the planet
· Balance – Put family first; work hard/have fun
· Determination – Find ways to be successful no matter how difficult the challenge
· Professionalism – Impress everyone we touch, be a team player
· Honesty – Be truthful and transparent, externally and internally
· Kindness – Create an environment where kindness, empathy, and vulnerability are embraced
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION and JUSTICE STATEMENT
At Pivot, we are proactively developing and maintaining an inclusive culture, rooted in mutual respect, that supports a workforce of different generations, races, gender identities, sexual orientations, ability statuses, religions, and cultures to work collaboratively together for greater impact. We seek to build a team that invests in relationship building, celebrates each other’s successes, and makes space for the unique contributions and working styles people bring into Pivot.
Pivot invests in company-wide trainings, assessments, and programs to advance internal inclusion and equity practices, such as employee allyship building, cross-cultural communications, and equitable hiring and management protocols to increasingly recognize bias and ensure mutual respect and belonging.
EEO STATEMENT
Pivot Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to increasing the diversity of its workforce. We actively work to cultivate an inclusive culture that welcomes, empowers, and enables equitable career growth for employees regardless of background.
Top Skills
Google Workspace
Hris
MS Office
Paycom
Sage Intacct
Pivot Energy Denver, Colorado, USA Office
Located right across the street from Union Station, our Denver HQ is at the heart of lower downtown Denver, accessible by public transit within walking distance to hotels, restaurants, the Rockies Stadium and Ball Arena.
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