Payroll Supervisor at Leprino Foods Company in Denver, CO

Within our Corporate Financial Shared Services team located in Denver, Leprino is seeking a Payroll Supervisor to help strengthen the payroll operations supporting our corporate office and manufacturing locations across the country. In this role, you’ll lead and develop a talented payroll team, improve processes, and help ensure thousands of employees are paid accurately and on time. We take pride in the people behind our business and believe great payroll starts with accuracy, collaboration, and a commitment to continuous improvement!

At Leprino, starting compensation for this role typically ranges between $90,000 and $102,000. This position has an annual target bonus of 10%.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead and develop a team of Payroll Specialists supporting weekly and bi-weekly payroll processing across Leprino’s corporate office and eight manufacturing locations.
• Review and approve payrolls, ensuring employees are paid accurately, on time, and according to applicable requirements.
• Coach team members, provide training, assign work, and support their continued professional development.
• Resolve complex payroll discrepancies, system issues, tax concerns, and sensitive employee pay inquiries.
• Coordinate monthly bonus processing, establish timelines, review calculations, and confirm accurate payments.
• Review payroll journal entries and support month-end closing activities with Finance and other business partners.
• Oversee federal, state, and local payroll tax activities, including UKG tax filings and year-end W-2 processing.
• Maintain accurate payroll structures, policies, workflows, and reporting within UKG and workforce management systems.
• Build reports that help teams understand payroll data while protecting confidential employee information.
• Improve payroll processes and system workflows to strengthen accuracy, consistency, and efficiency.
• Partner with plant teams, IT, Finance, Legal, and third-party providers to resolve issues and support payroll projects.
• Help shape a payroll operation built around accurate pay, strong relationships, and continuous improvement!

You Have At Least (Required Qualifications):

• Five years of progressive payroll experience, including full-cycle payroll processing.
• Two years of experience leading or supervising employees.
• Experience processing payroll across multiple states and applying federal, state, and local payroll requirements.
• Experience using Kronos, UKG Workforce Management, or a comparable time and attendance system.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including using spreadsheets to review, reconcile, and report payroll data.

We Hope You Also Have (Preferred Qualifications):

• A Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) certification.
• Experience using UKG for payroll processing, tax administration, reporting, or system configuration.
• Experience supporting payroll within a multi-location manufacturing organization.
• Experience using business intelligence or reporting tools to build and maintain payroll reporting.

At Leprino, we believe in equal employment opportunity and make employment decisions based on each individual’s unique talents, experience, skills, and knowledge; we do not discriminate on the basis of any personal characteristics. We know we are better together and are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive culture in which all employees can thrive.

Offering You In Return:

A chance to be part of a global team of individuals passionate about producing and delivering high-quality products that help feed and nourish families around the world. Leprino could not be where it is today without our incredible employees. That is why we share in our success together by rewarding you for your hard work. Hiring great people who are in it for the long run is our goal. Through competitive salaries and bonuses, life, medical/dental/vision coverage, voluntary benefits, employee assistance programs, wellness incentives, tuition assistance, vacation, ten paid holidays, sick time, paid parental leave, annual merit increases, as well as the LFC Profit-Sharing & 401(k) plan. Your impact will be noticed and rewarded, as you seek to further our company, our customers, and one another.

Our Story:

Leprino’s history dates back to the 1950s, when Jim Leprino first started making small batches of mozzarella for local markets and eateries in the Little Italy neighborhood of Denver. We’ve grown a bit since then. Today, Leprino is the world’s largest manufacturer of mozzarella and lactose, and a leading producer of whey protein. Still owned by the Leprino family, our sights are set to be the “World’s Best Dairy Food and Ingredient Company.” From a small corner grocery store we have grown to over 5,500 employees throughout the globe. Will you join us on our journey?