Assistant Director of Payroll Operations - Wethersfield Corporate Office

A Great Place to Work

As a Certified Great Place to Work, we think that you are going to love it here. Your work will be meaningful to you. You will make a genuine difference in the lives of our aging guests and the families that love them. You will enjoy lasting bonds with the families you meet and with the teams you work on. And if you desire, you will experience real career growth where your expertise and dedication is valued and appreciated. We invite you to join our team!

National Health Care Associates ("NHCA") is growing and seeking an Assistant Director of Payroll Operations to work onsite at our Wethersfield, CT corporate office.  With over 40 skilled nursing centers in 6 states throughout the Northeast and New England, we at National HealthCare Associates pride ourselves on delivering high quality long term, post-acute care, and short-term rehab services.  As the "right-hand" person for the Director of Payroll, this will be the point person for all NHCA Centers, providing solutions and white glove level customer service. 

Most Important Duties:

• Overseeing the day-to-day operations of the payroll department.

• Ensure payrolls for all centers and related entities are processed on-time and accurately.
• Oversee Payroll Representatives, ensuring payroll is being processed appropriately.
• Working with the Reps on any issues that come up on policy, procedure.
• Working on Special Projects e.g. facility audits (i.e. extracting data, historical information from the Payroll System).
• Making sure data interfaces are processed appropriately i.e. moving info from payroll to benefits carrier.
• Compliance reporting for EEO
• Workers Comp Audits

• Preparing and presenting payroll-related reports

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Comprehensive training and mentorship
• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Supportive and collaborative work environment
• The chance to make a meaningful difference in the lives of our residents

What You'll Bring:

Qualifications & Experience:

• Required: 5+ yrs payroll management/director level experience at a multi-state, multi-site organization
• Required: Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to remain friendly, supportive, calm and measured in a fast-paced environment
• Required: Management Experience
• Required: ADP Vantage Experience
• PBJ: Payroll Based Journal Reporting         
• Bachelors in Accounting or related experience
• Healthcare Provider Payroll experience 
• Workday Payroll Management experience
• Understand Smartlinx Scheduling, Time and Attendance System (or at least know Kronos or one of the others)
• Understanding of Basic Accounting e.g. how payroll transactions affect Accounting
• Human Resources Experience e.g. understanding of Job Classification Codes and how they are used
• Strong Excel: V-Lookups, Pivot Tables, Simple Formulas, at minimum
• Power Point: e.g. creating presentations for training purpose                       

We Hire for Heart!

National Health Care Associates (National) is proud to be a family-run organization since 1984. Like family, each of National’s centers are unique but share common values: Kindness, Service, Compassion and Excellence.  Today, our centers include more than 30 premier providers of short-term rehabilitation, skilled nursing, and post-hospital care including several named “Best Of” by US News & World Report.  When you join the team at a National center, you join a team that provides life-changing care to thousands of patients, residents, and families in a Great Place to Work Certified environment.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status.