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LOVB Minnesota

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2 - 10 employees

⚽ Sports

📚 Education

Sports • Education

LOVB Minnesota is the Minnesota club and market presence of LOVB (League One Volleyball), a national volleyball organization that operates junior clubs, youth tournaments, and a professional pro league launched in 2025. LOVB Minnesota kicked off its inaugural season with a roster combining Minnesota standouts and international players; it sits within a larger network that runs 90 clubs, 105 locations, training centers, thousands of teams, players, and coaches. The LOVB organization also operates a foundation to increase access to volleyball, sells tickets and merchandise, and produces media/insider content for fans.

📋 Description

• Serve as LOVB's executive leader and subject matter expert for payroll operations, payroll tax, wage and hour compliance, and payroll governance • Lead accurate, timely, and compliant payroll delivery across LOVB's multi-state, multi-entity workforce • Establish payroll controls, reconciliations, approval processes, tax registrations, filings, remittances, audits, and year-end reporting • Partner with Finance on payroll accounting, accruals, funding, and financial reporting • Oversee health and welfare plans, retirement programs, leave administration, voluntary benefits, and annual Open Enrollment • Manage benefits brokers, carriers, third-party administrators, and other benefits partners • Own LOVB's Rippling HCM platform and supporting workforce technologies, including Jira • Develop and execute the workforce systems roadmap, including configuration, workflows, integrations, security, testing, releases, and change management • Lead onboarding, employment changes, transfers, promotions, compensation changes, leaves of absence, and offboarding • Lead operational compliance, audits, regulatory reporting, government inquiries, due diligence requests, and remediation efforts • Develop workforce analytics, dashboards, labor analytics, predictive reporting, and workforce data governance standards • Provide workforce data and insights for planning, budgeting, forecasting, organizational modeling, and executive decision-making • Manage payroll, benefits, HCM, compensation, and other strategic vendor relationships • Lead vendor implementations, contract renewals, service transitions, issue resolution, and operating budget management • Drive process improvement, automation, standardization, and scalable operational practices • Partner cross-functionally with People Success, Finance, Legal, Technology, and leaders across LOVB Inc., LOVB Pro, and LOVB Clubs • Lead cross-functional planning, communication, training, and change management • Communicate operational insights, risks, recommendations, and priorities to executive leadership

🎯 Requirements

• Recognized expertise in payroll operations, payroll tax, wage and hour compliance, multi-state employment requirements, and payroll governance • Deep knowledge of benefits administration, workforce systems, HCM platforms, workforce reporting, and operational compliance • Demonstrated success leading enterprise payroll and workforce operations within a complex, multi-state organization • Experience leading HCM platforms, preferably Rippling, including workflows, integrations, security, governance, reporting, and data management • Strong understanding of internal controls, audit readiness, regulatory compliance, operational risk management, and workforce data integrity • Ability to connect payroll, workforce administration, and HCM operations with financial and organizational priorities • Strong financial and analytical acumen, including budgeting, forecasting, reporting, vendor management, and operational planning • Proven experience leading leaders and specialized operational teams through growth, transformation, and systems implementations • Excellent judgment, discretion, and integrity when managing confidential employee, payroll, financial, and organizational information • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Operations, or a related field • Ten or more years of progressive leadership experience in payroll, workforce administration, benefits, HCM, finance operations, compliance, or related operational disciplines • At least five years of experience leading managers, functional leaders, or multidisciplinary operational teams • Demonstrated experience building scalable operational processes, systems, governance frameworks, and internal controls • Experience managing significant vendor relationships, contracts, budgets, system implementations, and external service providers • Experience supporting a complex, multi-state and multi-entity workforce strongly preferred • Experience supporting a high-growth, multi-entity organization preferred • Experience within sports, entertainment, media, technology, or other rapidly evolving industries preferred • Experience supporting executive reporting, audits, investor requests, fundraising, or due diligence preferred • Experience implementing automation, AI-enabled capabilities, or emerging workforce technologies preferred • Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) designation or other relevant certifications preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Health and welfare plans • Retirement programs • Leave administration • Voluntary benefits • Annual Open Enrollment • Salary actions and incentive administration • Annual merit processes • Employee self-service capabilities • Professional training and change management related to operational initiatives