Payroll Team Lead

Chesapeake, VA

Job Description

The Finance Department is seeking a detail-oriented and experienced Payroll Team Lead to oversee our citywide payroll processing. This role ensures the accuracy and timeliness of payroll processing, as well as compliance with regulatory requirements. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy leading a team while analyzing and solving complex payroll issues, we want to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities

  • Team lead for payroll specialists to ensure accurate and timely payroll processing and reconciliation.

  • Ensure accuracy in earnings, deductions, FMLA, and workers' compensation.

  • Maintain, support, and test payroll systems and reporting tools; assist with system upgrades.

  • Review and process journal entries, review benefits, and general ledger reconciliations.

  • Analyze and audit payroll records and ensure compliance with federal, state, and local government mandates.

  • Develop and update payroll policies and procedures.

  • Collaborate with Payroll Assistant Manager and Human Resources department on payroll related issues.

  • Performs other related duties as assigned.

The City of Chesapeake offers an exceptional range of benefits. Please browse our Benefits Brochure, for a full list of benefits and employee perks. PDN-a03deb7a-02b5-4d12-b98a-435b66b5a635
The Finance Department is seeking a detail-oriented and experienced Payroll Team Lead to oversee our citywide payroll processing. This role ensures the accuracy and timeliness of payroll processing, as well as compliance with regulatory requirements. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy leading a team while analyzing and solving complex payroll issues, we want to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities

  • Team lead for payroll specialists to ensure accurate and timely payroll processing and reconciliation.

  • Ensure accuracy in earnings, deductions, FMLA, and workers' compensation.

  • Maintain, support, and test payroll systems and reporting tools; assist with system upgrades.

  • Review and process journal entries, review benefits, and general ledger reconciliations.

  • Analyze and audit payroll records and ensure compliance with federal, state, and local government mandates.

  • Develop and update payroll policies and procedures.

  • Collaborate with Payroll Assistant Manager and Human Resources department on payroll related issues.

  • Performs other related duties as assigned.

The City of Chesapeake offers an exceptional range of benefits. Please browse our Benefits Brochure, for a full list of benefits and employee perks. PDN-a03deb7a-02b5-4d12-b98a-435b66b5a635

About City of Chesapeake

Chesapeake, Virginia is a vibrant community that enjoys the best of two worlds, one of urban variety, culture, and excitement, and another of rural landscapes and relaxed living. 

Located 20 minutes from the oceanfront, 15 minutes from downtown Norfolk, and 45 minutes from Colonial Williamsburg and the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Chesapeake is the perfect place in which to live, work, and raise a family. 

Home to beautiful parks, lakes, and rivers, Chesapeake has more miles of deepwater canals (part of the Intracoastal Waterway) than any other city in the country! 

The City of Chesapeake was formed through the merger of the City of South Norfolk and Norfolk County in 1963. It’s a community of communities, with each having its own distinctive history. 

Over the last decade, many national and international companies have taken advantage of the City’s ports, atmosphere, and highly qualified labor market by relocating to Chesapeake. 

Chesapeake’s neighborhoods offer a variety of comfortable housing alternatives, from apartments and town homes, to single-family residences and executive homes. The City is consistently ranked by the FBI as one of the safest U.S. cities (with populations over 150,000), which lends to the safe, community atmosphere that residents enjoy.

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Payroll Team Lead
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Oct 31, 2025
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