US Senior Pay & Time Manager

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Job Description Summary

GE Aerospace’s US Pay & Time Center of Excellence (COE) is a team of dedicated specialists focused on delivering accurate and timely payroll and time & attendance services for exempt and non-exempt employee populations. The team ensures seamless integration and alignment of payroll and time & attendance processes with broader organizational goals, establishing standard work and governance to leverage best practices and support the successful preparation, processing, and documentation of payroll.

The US Senior Pay & Time Manager role is a critical leadership position responsible for overseeing a team of payroll and time & attendance specialists supporting exempt and non-exempt US employee populations across multiple sites and business units. This role drives sets direction and drives strategic initiatives to ensure timely, accurate, and compliant payroll processing, enabling employees to focus on delivering excellence in safety, quality, delivery, and cost (SQDC). As a key partner to site leaders and senior stakeholders, the US Senior Pay & Time Manager fosters strong connections across the organization, ensuring alignment with business priorities while using Flight Deck to implement process improvements, standardization, simplification, and operational efficiency. This role leverages best practices from across GE Aerospace and external benchmarks, guiding leaders and the team in creating innovative solutions to enhance payroll systems and practices. This role requires a forward-thinking approach to payroll operations, combining deep technical expertise with strategic leadership to deliver exceptional service and continuous improvement.

This role partners closely with HR Managers, Business Leaders, Digital Technology, and other People Operations teams, acting as a liaison across these functions to drive process improvements, enhance system functionality, and ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations. You will influence strategy and priorities across sites and programs, ensuring consistent execution and measurable impact on SQDC.

As a US Senior Pay & Time Manager, you will be responsible for leading the compliance, productivity and efficiency of the essential service and process delivery of payroll and time & attendance functions. You will provide strategic direction and insight on continuous improvement solutions to evolve and enhance payroll and time & attendance processes and systems, and you will build leadership capability to sustain results. Additionally you will be responsible for serving as a peer mentor to other team leaders in the NAM organization.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

• Ensuring pay is processed on time, accurately and in compliance with government regulations.
• Leading a high-performing team, developing the team’s technical proficiency, making training and development opportunities available and achievable.
• Partner with others such as site leaders, vendors, HR Partners, Total Rewards, and People Ops teams on compliant and sustainable design, implementation, and governance of pay practices, resolving complex escalations and risk.
• Manage the partnership with Digital Technology and time and attendance application support to provide feedback and direction on the time and attendance system road map & strategy, and partner on implementation and maintenance.
• Drive process improvements and implement strategic initiatives.
• Resolving complex escalations and risk, explaining complex payroll concepts to a range of employee personas from executives to HR to production employees in a clear and approachable manner.
• Implement standard work for pay & time processes & procedures.
• Building strong cross-functional relationships and executive stakeholder management; aligning objectives and resources across functions; surfacing risks with mitigation plans.
• Analyzing payroll data and metrics to identify trends and opportunities for improvement, leading root cause analysis; translating insights into action plans with measurable outcomes.
• Managing over/underpayment processes and partnership with HR and Union Relations / Employee Relations teams to ensure appropriate action.
• Provide insight on team strategy and continuous improvement solutions.
• Identifying opportunities and pain points, offering solution design options to improve payroll and time & attendance processes.
• Providing payroll and time & attendance expertise and leadership during M&A activities.
• Translating strategies into action plans and align team priorities to the business.
• Obtaining certification in either Workday, Time System or Payroll within one year in role to ensure appropriate level of technical leadership for role.
• Serve as a peer mentor to other team leaders in NAM organization.
  
  

Qualifications/ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Human Resources, or a related field from an accredited university with minimum of 5 years of experience in HR Function and/or Payroll/Time & Attendance area, or a high school diploma / GED with at least 9 years of experience in HR Function and/or Payroll/Time & Attendance area.
• Expertise in Workday Payroll, time & attendance systems and integration with payroll processes.
• Strong knowledge of federal, state, and local payroll regulations, including FLSA, tax compliance and reporting.
• Willing to travel as needed up to 15%.
  
  

Desired Characteristics

• Certified Payroll Professional (CPP), Fundamental Payroll Certification (FPC), Workday, or time system certification.
• Strong problem-solving skills to address complex payroll challenges.
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to engage employees, leaders, and external partners.
• Willingness to deep dive into current time and attendance site practices and develop strategy and execute resulting in standardization of work across sites.
• Serve as a role model continuous improvement behaviors needed to encourage and embed change.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills; solutions-oriented approach
• Experience in managing internal & external audits.
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple urgent deliverables; experience in a matrixed leadership environment.
• Experience with managing people virtually or a geographical dispersed team.
  
  

Pay And Benefits

• The base pay range for this position is $117,000 - 160,000. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set. This position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus based on a percentage of your base salary/ commission based on the plan. This posting is expected to close on November 7th, 2025.
• GE Aerospace offers comprehensive benefits and programs to support your health and, along with programs like HealthAhead, your physical, emotional, financial and social wellbeing. Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach from GE Aerospace; and the Employee Assistance Program, which provides 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Aerospace Retirement Savings Plan, a 401(k) savings plan with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness. GE Aerospace (General Electric Company or the Company) and its affiliates each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a “Sponsor”). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsor’s welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual
  
  

Additional Information

GE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights_10_20.pdf) . Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE Aerospace will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

• This is a remote position
  
  

GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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