Payroll Manager
Own payroll from end to end
Northwest Ambulance is hiring its first Payroll Manager. Right now, payroll for our roughly 430 employees is spread across a part-time specialist and several people whose real jobs are something else — PTO tracking here, timekeeping downloads there, L&I reporting somewhere else again. No one owns it.
You will. This role consolidates the entire function into a single seat and hands you the authority that goes with it: you decide how payroll operates, you make the classification and filing determinations, and you represent the organization in front of taxing and regulatory agencies.
The processing itself is not the job. We run ADP with approved time exported from ESO, and the transfer takes about five minutes a cycle. What that five minutes executes are decisions you already made. The work is judgment — reading the FLSA and the Washington Minimum Wage Act and deciding how they apply to us, designing pay practices that hold up, and knowing when reported time can't be trusted.
If you've been the person who quietly knew where all the payroll risk was buried but never had the standing to fix it, this is that job with the standing attached.
What you'll do
Design the pay practices and interpret the law behind them
- Decide how payroll operates: pay cycles, pay rules, approval flows, and controls
- Interpret the FLSA and the Washington Minimum Wage Act and apply them to our pay pract
