Performs complex planning, analysis, formulation, and execution of the City’s payroll function. Responsible for highly specialized, professional, administrative, and supervisory work to manage and unify the City’s payroll functions. Requires considerable interaction with City departments, employees, system vendors, and regulatory agencies. Primary duties include ensuring the City’s legal compliance with payroll policies, procedures and methods; requirements of federal, state and local laws including collective bargaining agreements; and implementation, maintenance, and updates of the payroll functions in the City’s ERP System and subsystems. Responsible for ensuring accurate processing and administration of payroll including IRS regulations and tax filings, designing effective payroll internal controls, analyzing and monitoring payroll information, and researching payroll tax issues. Work is performed under the general supervision of the Assistant Director of Financial Services/Director of Accounting, and exercises an extensive degree of initiative, critical thinking, attention to detail, and considerable independent judgment in solving problems in accordance with established policies and procedures. The City of Hollywood is a full service municipality providing 24/7 Police, Fire, Utilities services along with Sanitation, Parks and Recreation, Community and Economic Development, and overall government administrative services.