Gerente de Nominas Mexico Sr.

Senior Payroll Manager, Mexico Position Summary: The Senior Payroll Manager, Mexico is responsible for leading the end-to-end payroll function for Mexico, ensuring accurate and timely payroll processing, strong internal controls, and full compliance with Mexican labor, tax, social security, housing fund, and electronic payroll reporting requirements. This role serves as the subject matter expert for Mexican payroll legislation and partners closely with Human Resources, Finance, Legal, Tax, external providers, and business leadership to support compliant, efficient, and employee-focused payroll operations.

Lead full-cycle payroll operations for Mexico, including regular payrolls, off-cycle payments, adjustments, retroactive payments, terminations, severance, and final settlements. Ensure payroll is processed accurately, on time, and in accordance with company policies, employment agreements, collective bargaining requirements where applicable, and Mexican statutory requirements. Provide expert guidance on Mexican payroll practices, including weekly, biweekly, quincenal, and monthly payroll cycles as applicable to the workforce. Oversee payroll inputs, calculations, validations, approvals, funding, bank files, payroll journals, reconciliations, and employee pay documentation. Manage payroll controls, segregation of duties, audit evidence, issue resolution, and continuous improvement of payroll processes. Lead, coach, and develop payroll team members; establish coverage plans, performance expectations, training, and succession readiness. Partner with HR, Finance, Tax, Legal, Treasury, Benefits, Operations, and external payroll vendors to resolve complex payroll issues and support business priorities. Monitor payroll service levels, accuracy metrics, timeliness, compliance exceptions, employee inquiries, and root-cause corrective actions. Mexican Legislative and Payroll Compliance Requirements Ensure compliance with the Ley Federal del Trabajo, including requirements related to wages, work schedules, overtime, rest days, holidays, vacation entitlement, vacation premium, statutory leaves, termination payments, and employee profit sharing. Oversee accurate calculation, withholding, reporting, and remittance of Impuesto Sobre la Renta (ISR) for salaries, bonuses, overtime, taxable benefits, and other payroll-related earnings. Ensure accurate employer and employee social security calculations, registrations, salary base updates, reporting, and payments to the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS). Manage compliance with Instituto del Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda para los Trabajadores (INFONAVIT) obligations, including employer housing fund contributions and employee loan deductions where applicable. Ensure compliance with retirement savings obligations, including SAR/AFORE-related payroll contributions and reporting requirements. Oversee payroll CFDI reporting, including timely generation, validation, stamping, cancellation or correction when required, and delivery of compliant CFDI de Nómina receipts through SAT-authorized processes. Ensure payroll systems and vendor processes comply with applicable CFDI 4.0 and Nómina Complement requirements and maintain accurate data alignment with SAT, IMSS, and INFONAVIT records. Manage statutory benefits and accruals, including aguinaldo, vacation, prima vacacional, overtime premiums, Sunday premium where applicable, statutory holidays, and other legally required payments. Coordinate annual Participación de los Trabajadores en las Utilidades (PTU) calculations, accruals, documentation, payments, and reporting in partnership with Finance, Tax, and Legal. Ensure compliance with state payroll tax requirements, including calculation, filing, payment, and reconciliation according to the states in which employees are registered or services are performed. Maintain audit-ready documentation for SAT, IMSS, INFONAVIT, labor authority, internal audit,