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Payroll Manager Reviews
What is it like working as a Payroll Manager?
January 2025
Busy, underpaid, but no micromanagement.
Payroll Manager in Calhoun City:
Pros: Staff
Cons: Little to no guidance on how to do tasks, just getting assigned tasks and being left to sink or swim
September 2022
Great flexibility and teamwork.
Payroll Manager in Atlanta:
Pros: Autonomy and support from various sources
Cons: Lack of perks compared with other top employers in area
January 2022
Pressure, outrageous demands, affects mental health but rewarding month end.
Payroll Manager in Johannesburg:
Pros: Flexibility, given tools to succeed
Cons: Payroll
November 2021
Stressful, frustrating and slow.
Payroll Manager in Columbus:
Pros: My payroll team I work with.
Cons: Working within a privately owned company makes progress very hard. Its very hard to accomplish innovation and new goals to move foward.
October 2021
Highly adaptable and dedicated to producing error-free results.
Payroll Manager in Pretoria:
Pros: Stakeholder management with South African Revenue Services, on Tax Act amendment legislative changes affecting Pension Fund Industry.
Cons: Government red tape, delaying implementations of current IT infrastructure to enable quicker payouts to GEPF members and GEPF pensioners.
September 2021
Challenging and very gratifying position of Payroll Manager.
Payroll Manager in Minneapolis:
Pros: I love the people that I work with and the support given by peers
Cons: Constant deadlines and unplanned work; labor union regulations
August 2021
Payroll Manager in Houston:
Pros: Love that I am not micro-managed and that McDermott is a company that promotes employees being treated fairly, though it is not enforced. There is a culture of respect.
Cons: As a manager, I do not receive bonuses and in four years only received one pay raise despite my being the only functional expert in SAP and working on multiple projects, sometimes simutaneously. More of a manager problem than a company problem.
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