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Your strategic leadership, deep payroll expertise, and ability to lead complex operations and transformation make you a great fit for our Director, Payroll Operations & Systems position. Join our dynamic team today and find a rewarding career with a company that values you and all you bring to the table.
About Your Role:
As the Director, Payroll Operations & Systems at Dollar Tree’s corporate office, you’ll lead the strategic direction and operational delivery of our enterprise-wide payroll function supporting associates across our retail stores, distribution centers, and corporate functions throughout the U.S. and Canada.
You’ll be responsible for ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payroll delivery while strengthening systems, processes, controls, and service delivery. You’ll also provide strategic leadership and governance for Workday Payroll and related timekeeping capabilities, lead payroll transformation initiatives, and develop a high-performing team capable of supporting the scale and complexity of our business.
Your day-to-day duties include, but are not limited to, the following:
Payroll Strategy & Operational Excellence
- Develop and execute the strategic roadmap for the payroll function, ensuring alignment with HR, Finance, technology, and broader business objectives
- Lead end-to-end payroll operations across a large, multi-state, multi-entity workforce, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payroll delivery
- Establish and champion payroll policies, processes, controls, service standards, and key performance indicators that drive accuracy, efficiency, scalability, and an exceptional associate experience
- Provide oversight of payroll tax, garnishments, on- and off-cycle payroll, year-end processing, unemployment claims, and required governmental and internal reporting
- Serve as a strategic advisor and subject matter expert on complex payroll matters, regulatory requirements, emerging risks, and industry best practices
Compliance, Controls & Risk Management
- Ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local wage and hour laws, payroll tax regulations, and other payroll requirements
- Proactively identify and mitigate payroll-related risk through effective internal controls, governance, audit procedures, and ongoing compliance monitoring
- Lead payroll-related internal and external audit activities and ensure adherence to SOX and other applicable control requirements
- Develop and manage the payroll department budget, ensuring effective stewardship of resources and efficient operations
Payroll Systems & Transformation
- Provide strategic leadership and governance for Workday Payroll and timekeeping capabilities, ensuring configurations, integrations, controls, and enhancements support accurate payroll processing and evolving business requirements
- Partner with HR, IT, Finance, and managed service providers to establish the Workday Payroll roadmap, prioritize enhancements, evaluate service delivery, and manage system updates
- Drive forward-looking planning and innovation across the Workday ecosystem, including participation in quarterly business reviews and strategic roadmap planning
- Lead significant payroll initiatives, including system implementations and upgrades, complex integrations, process transformation, acquisitions, and post-divestiture coexistence and separation activities
- Provide oversight of third-party payroll partners and vendors, including service performance, contractual obligations, and opportunities to improve service delivery and cost effectiveness
Team Leadership & Business Partnership
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing payroll organization, including managers, analysts, and specialists
- Establish clear performance expectations, build team capabilities, and create meaningful development and growth opportunities
- Foster a culture of accuracy, accountability, exceptional service, continuous improvement, and collaboration while creating an environment where associates feel distinctly valued
- Partner closely with HR, Finance, Legal, IT, and other business functions to ensure payroll is effectively integrated with critical business processes and systems
Your Required Skills and Experience:
- 7+ years of progressive payroll or related experience, including significant leadership responsibility within a large, complex, multi-state organization
- Demonstrated expertise across payroll operations, including payroll processing, payroll tax, garnishments, multi-state regulations, complex year-end processing, and unemployment claims
- Experience leading managers and/or multi-layered teams within a high-volume payroll environment
- Experience with large-scale payroll systems such as Workday Payroll, SAP, Oracle HCM, or similar platforms
- Demonstrated experience leading significant payroll transformation, systems implementation, or process improvement initiatives
- In-depth knowledge of federal, state, and local wage and hour laws, payroll tax regulations, and other applicable compliance requirements
- Strong understanding of payroll controls, governance, audit requirements, risk management, and SOX compliance
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills with a strong focus on accuracy and controls
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across all levels of the organization
- Strong project and change leadership skills with the ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives
- Ability to lead effectively in a fast-paced, high-volume, and continuously evolving environment
Preferred Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business, Human Resources, or a related field
- Workday Payroll experience strongly preferred
- Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) certification highly desirable
- Experience negotiating and managing third-party contracts and service providers
- Canadian payroll experience
Salary range: $180,000 – $197,500 base + 25% bonus + equity
Our success is a team effort —
when we reach our goals, you’ll be eligible for a yearly bonus!
Your Perks and Benefits:
We offer a wide variety of rewards to support your health, wealth, and mental well-being. In addition to medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision insurance, we offer:
- Employee Assistance Program
- Retirement plans with matching contribution
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Educational Assistance
- Access to PerkSpot, an employee discount platform for goods and services
- And much more!
Who We Are:
At Dollar Tree, we make a difference in the lives of our customers every day by exceeding their expectations and delivering value – it’s what our business is built on. Our associates play an important role in this commitment by embracing change and showing up for their teams and their communities.
We see an exciting path forward as our company continues to grow and transform – and we know that this path starts with you.
Join our team today and discover The Value of You.
Dollar Tree is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.
This job specification should not be construed to imply that these requirements are the exclusive standards of the position. This is not to be considered a complete list of job duties, which appear in the job description for this position, and which may be amended from time to time at the discretion of Dollar Tree, Inc.
Job Type: Full time
Location: 500 Volvo Parkway, Chesapeake, Virginia 23320
Department: Payroll
Company: Dollar Tree
Director, Payroll Operations & Systems
Your strategic leadership, deep payroll expertise, and ability to lead complex operations and transformation make you a great fit for our Director, Payroll Operations & Systems position. Join our dynamic team today and find a rewarding career with a company that values you and all you bring to the table.
About Your Role:
As the Director, Payroll Operations & Systems at Dollar Tree’s corporate office, you’ll lead the strategic direction and operational delivery of our enterprise-wide payroll function supporting associates across our retail stores, distribution centers, and corporate functions throughout the U.S. and Canada.
You’ll be responsible for ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payroll delivery while strengthening systems, processes, controls, and service delivery. You’ll also provide strategic leadership and governance for Workday Payroll and related timekeeping capabilities, lead payroll transformation initiatives, and develop a high-performing team capable of supporting the scale and complexity of our business.
Your day-to-day duties include, but are not limited to, the following:
Payroll Strategy & Operational Excellence
- Develop and execute the strategic roadmap for the payroll function, ensuring alignment with HR, Finance, technology, and broader business objectives
- Lead end-to-end payroll operations across a large, multi-state, multi-entity workforce, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payroll delivery
- Establish and champion payroll policies, processes, controls, service standards, and key performance indicators that drive accuracy, efficiency, scalability, and an exceptional associate experience
- Provide oversight of payroll tax, garnishments, on- and off-cycle payroll, year-end processing, unemployment claims, and required governmental and internal reporting
- Serve as a strategic advisor and subject matter expert on complex payroll matters, regulatory requirements, emerging risks, and industry best practices
Compliance, Controls & Risk Management
- Ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local wage and hour laws, payroll tax regulations, and other payroll requirements
- Proactively identify and mitigate payroll-related risk through effective internal controls, governance, audit procedures, and ongoing compliance monitoring
- Lead payroll-related internal and external audit activities and ensure adherence to SOX and other applicable control requirements
- Develop and manage the payroll department budget, ensuring effective stewardship of resources and efficient operations
Payroll Systems & Transformation
- Provide strategic leadership and governance for Workday Payroll and timekeeping capabilities, ensuring configurations, integrations, controls, and enhancements support accurate payroll processing and evolving business requirements
- Partner with HR, IT, Finance, and managed service providers to establish the Workday Payroll roadmap, prioritize enhancements, evaluate service delivery, and manage system updates
- Drive forward-looking planning and innovation across the Workday ecosystem, including participation in quarterly business reviews and strategic roadmap planning
- Lead significant payroll initiatives, including system implementations and upgrades, complex integrations, process transformation, acquisitions, and post-divestiture coexistence and separation activities
- Provide oversight of third-party payroll partners and vendors, including service performance, contractual obligations, and opportunities to improve service delivery and cost effectiveness
Team Leadership & Business Partnership
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing payroll organization, including managers, analysts, and specialists
- Establish clear performance expectations, build team capabilities, and create meaningful development and growth opportunities
- Foster a culture of accuracy, accountability, exceptional service, continuous improvement, and collaboration while creating an environment where associates feel distinctly valued
- Partner closely with HR, Finance, Legal, IT, and other business functions to ensure payroll is effectively integrated with critical business processes and systems
Your Required Skills and Experience:
- 7+ years of progressive payroll or related experience, including significant leadership responsibility within a large, complex, multi-state organization
- Demonstrated expertise across payroll operations, including payroll processing, payroll tax, garnishments, multi-state regulations, complex year-end processing, and unemployment claims
- Experience leading managers and/or multi-layered teams within a high-volume payroll environment
- Experience with large-scale payroll systems such as Workday Payroll, SAP, Oracle HCM, or similar platforms
- Demonstrated experience leading significant payroll transformation, systems implementation, or process improvement initiatives
- In-depth knowledge of federal, state, and local wage and hour laws, payroll tax regulations, and other applicable compliance requirements
- Strong understanding of payroll controls, governance, audit requirements, risk management, and SOX compliance
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills with a strong focus on accuracy and controls
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across all levels of the organization
- Strong project and change leadership skills with the ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives
- Ability to lead effectively in a fast-paced, high-volume, and continuously evolving environment
Preferred Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business, Human Resources, or a related field
- Workday Payroll experience strongly preferred
- Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) certification highly desirable
- Experience negotiating and managing third-party contracts and service providers
- Canadian payroll experience
Salary range: $180,000 – $197,500 base + 25% bonus + equity
Our success is a team effort —
when we reach our goals, you’ll be eligible for a yearly bonus!
Your Perks and Benefits:
We offer a wide variety of rewards to support your health, wealth, and mental well-being. In addition to medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision insurance, we offer:
- Employee Assistance Program
- Retirement plans with matching contribution
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Educational Assistance
- Access to PerkSpot, an employee discount platform for goods and services
- And much more!
Who We Are:
At Dollar Tree, we make a difference in the lives of our customers every day by exceeding their expectations and delivering value – it’s what our business is built on. Our associates play an important role in this commitment by embracing change and showing up for their teams and their communities.
We see an exciting path forward as our company continues to grow and transform – and we know that this path starts with you.
Join our team today and discover The Value of You.
Dollar Tree is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.
This job specification should not be construed to imply that these requirements are the exclusive standards of the position. This is not to be considered a complete list of job duties, which appear in the job description for this position, and which may be amended from time to time at the discretion of Dollar Tree, Inc.
Job Type: Full time
Location: 500 Volvo Parkway, Chesapeake, Virginia 23320
Department: Payroll
Company: Dollar Tree
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Which companies sponsor visas for systems engineers in Virginia?
Virginia's federal contracting sector generates consistent systems engineer sponsorship activity. Leidos, Booz Allen Hamilton, SAIC, Northrop Grumman, Peraton, and Raytheon Technologies are among the most active sponsors in the state. Outside defense contracting, AWS, Microsoft, and Accenture Federal Services also sponsor systems engineers, particularly in Northern Virginia where cloud infrastructure operations are concentrated.
Which visa types are most common for systems engineer roles in Virginia?
The H-1B visa is the most common visa for systems engineers in Virginia. Systems engineering consistently qualifies as a specialty occupation requiring at least a bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field. Some Virginia employers, particularly those with global operations, also sponsor L-1B visas for intracompany transferees with specialized technical knowledge in systems architecture or integration.
Which cities in Virginia have the most systems engineer sponsorship jobs?
Northern Virginia dominates, with Reston, Herndon, McLean, Arlington, and Fairfax generating the majority of systems engineer sponsorship openings due to the dense concentration of federal contractors and technology firms. Richmond has a smaller but growing market, particularly in defense and infrastructure. Chantilly is also notable for intelligence community-adjacent employers with systems engineering needs.
How to find systems engineer visa sponsorship jobs in Virginia?
Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically by visa sponsorship availability, making it straightforward to identify systems engineer roles in Virginia where employers are actively open to sponsoring. Rather than sifting through general job boards, you can search directly for sponsored systems engineer positions across Northern Virginia's contracting corridor and the broader state tech market in one place.
Are there any state-specific considerations for systems engineers seeking sponsorship in Virginia?
Many high-demand systems engineer roles in Virginia are tied to federal contracts requiring security clearances. Employers can still sponsor H-1B holders for these positions, but the clearance eligibility process adds a layer of complexity, as non-U.S. citizens face significant barriers to obtaining many clearance levels. Candidates should clarify clearance requirements early, since uncleared roles in Virginia's commercial tech sector tend to have smoother sponsorship pathways.
What is the prevailing wage for sponsored systems engineer jobs in Virginia?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.