Senior Payroll Coordinator

About the role

Champro, a private manufacturer of sports articles and apparel with more than 30 years of experience, is looking for a Senior Payroll Coordinator in La Vega, Dominican Republic. The position reports to the Payroll Manager, supervises the Payroll Officer and the operational team, ensures business continuity when the manager is unavailable, and guarantees that every payment complies with Dominican labor, tax and social security legislation. It is a second-level leadership role within the department.

Key responsibilities

• Supervise and validate weekly payrolls, including overtime, incentives, absences, vacations, leaves, salary changes, deductions and other payroll movements.
• Coordinate and review monthly obligations to TSS, SUIR, INFOTEP and other labor and social security requirements, and verify the correct application of ISR and other legal deductions.
• Oversee special payroll processes from period closings, audits, extraordinary requests or transfers between locations.
• Review calculations for vacations, Christmas bonus, labor benefits, severance, bonuses and other benefits; apply tax credit balances and other authorized tax credits, including those under the Education Expenses Law.
• Approve payroll-related general ledger reconciliations within your authority, investigate discrepancies and prepare monthly accruals and payroll variance and labor cost reports.
• Provide analytical information to the Payroll Manager, the Controller and other areas, maintain confidentiality of salary and personal data, and coordinate audit documentation.
• Supervise the Payroll Officer, distribute workloads, evaluate performance and promote technical development.
• Act as operational backup for the Payroll Manager, identify automation and process-improvement opportunities, and help implement payroll systems such as ERP and time and attendance tools.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Human Resources Management, Industrial Engineering or a related field; specialization in payroll, labor law, social security, finance or people management is a plus.
• 4 to 6 years of experience in payroll processes, preferably in high-volume organizations, and prior experience supervising staff or coordinating a payroll team.
• Knowledge of the Dominican Labor Code, TSS/SUIR, INFOTEP, ISR and the calculation of severance, vacations and the Christmas bonus.
• Preferred: advanced Excel, experience with NewSoft, experience in companies with more than 1,000 employees, manufacturing or free-trade-zone operations, and intermediate English.