DirectorofHRIS&Payroll(UKG)

ABOUT THE COMPANY This organization is a fast-growing portfolio company that owns and operates a collection of businesses across 40 states in the United States. Intentionally multi-brand and multi-location, each business maintains its own identity and local market focus — supported by centralized operational leadership, technology, HR, finance, marketing, and other shared services. The organization completes approximately 10–15 acquisitions per year. POSITION OVERVIEW The Director of HRIS & Payroll owns the organization’s HCM/HRIS system, UKG, end-to-end and is accountable for accurate, timely, and compliant payroll execution across a multi-entity, multi-state portfolio. The Director is the lead UKG practitioner — designing system configuration and architecture, building SOPs, deploying new modules, optimizing existing ones through workflow automation, producing reports and dashboards, and serving as the escalation point for manager-level help-desk questions. The Director also serves as the source of truth on UKG and payroll best practices for downstream HR partners, producing the SOPs, training materials, and process documentation the broader HR team relies on. This role is the primary owner of payroll: hands-on directly for the first six months, then transitioning transactional execution to offshore payroll specialists while retaining ultimate accountability and final sign-off authority on every pay cycle. Given the organization’s acquisition pace, the Director maintains a clean, auditable, and scalable UKG environment that absorbs newly integrated operating companies without configuration sprawl. The role partners cross-functionally with HR, Finance, IT, Legal, and M&A leadership. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES HCM/HRIS Ownership — UKG Strategy, Architecture & Transformation • Serve as system owner and primary practitioner for UKG Pro (HCM and Payroll) and UKG Pro Workforce Management (timekeeping and scheduling) • Lead enterprise configuration strategy: earnings codes, pa