Top Payroll Specialist Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Own end-to-end U.S. payroll processing in ADP Workforce Now, coordinate Canadian and global payroll activities, manage commissions and adjustments, perform audits and reconciliations, support payroll taxes and compliance, resolve employee payroll issues, and improve payroll processes and controls.

Manage end-to-end payroll through a PEO, administer HRIS data, support employees with payroll and HR inquiries, ensure multi-state compliance, generate reports, and optimize HR workflows. Lead the organization’s 2027 transition from its PEO to an independent payroll and HR technology stack, including system selection, implementation, tax setup, SOP development, controls, and employee training.

Processes semi-monthly payroll, verifies timesheets and employee data, manages deductions and garnishments, coordinates employment changes, reconciles payroll accounts, responds to inquiries, generates reports, ensures California payroll compliance, improves payroll systems, and supports staff training.

Supports payroll processing by reviewing timecard data, investigating errors, coordinating with HR and third-party payroll providers, ensuring multi-state regulatory compliance, preparing payroll and workers’ compensation reports, and safeguarding confidential HR records.

Supports end-to-end payroll administration, including processing salaries, benefits, taxes, garnishments, deductions, payroll updates, final checks, and benefit reconciliations. Audits payroll for accuracy and compliance with wage and hour laws, maintains payroll records, supports audits, researches payroll topics, prepares reports, resolves discrepancies, and responds to employee and manager inquiries. Collaborates with HR and department managers on timekeeping, leave requests, approvals, and payroll changes.

Processes payroll data, wage payments, garnishments, special checks, tax and unemployment filings, and new-hire paperwork. Audits time entries, updates employee payroll information, reconciles payroll-related accounts, prepares management reports, and maintains tax and W-2 records. Communicates with employees, payroll vendors, and taxing authorities to resolve issues and prevent penalties. This routine support role operates under close supervision and requires accuracy, organization, and payroll or accounting experience.

Provides end-to-end payroll processing and customer support for multiple managed payroll clients. Responsibilities include resolving cases and escalations, configuring Workday payroll components, supporting year-end processing, troubleshooting tax and audit reports, conducting client calls, documenting procedures, and maintaining service-level, quality, and production standards.

Provides end-to-end payroll processing and customer support for multiple managed payroll clients. Responsibilities include resolving cases and escalations, meeting service-level targets, configuring Workday payroll components, supporting tax and year-end processes, troubleshooting audit reports, conducting root cause analyses, leading client calls, maintaining documentation, and collaborating with internal and customer teams.

Provides end-to-end payroll processing support for multiple managed customers. Responsibilities include handling payroll cases and escalations, configuring Workday payroll components, supporting year-end processing, troubleshooting tax and audit reports, conducting root cause analyses, leading client calls, maintaining documentation, and meeting service-level and quality metrics.

Processes end-to-end payroll for multiple managed customers, including Workday configuration, payroll taxes, deductions, year-end support, audits, and compliance. Resolves customer and internal cases, manages escalations, performs root cause analysis, leads client calls, maintains documentation, and meets service-level, quality, and production targets. The role requires strong payroll expertise, multi-jurisdiction tax knowledge, customer service, analytical skills, and the ability to manage competing deadlines.

Processes and audits multi-state payroll for healthcare employees, ensuring accurate wages, deductions, benefits, taxes, and compliance. Maintains payroll and HRIS records, reconciles reports and accounts, supports W-2s, tax filings, and audits, resolves employee payroll questions, and partners with HR and Finance on employee status changes and process improvements.

Process regular and off-cycle US payroll, calculate payroll inputs, ensure tax and regulatory compliance, audit records, resolve employee and stakeholder requests, maintain documentation, improve payroll systems and processes, and support Canada payroll processing. The role also provides backup support, participates in payroll projects, and collaborates with multiple departments and stakeholders while working Eastern Standard Time hours.

Processes end-to-end payroll for multiple managed customers, resolves cases and escalations, supports Workday payroll configuration, handles year-end and multi-jurisdiction tax activities, troubleshoots audit reports, conducts client calls, documents root causes, and maintains service documentation. The role requires strong payroll compliance knowledge, customer service, analytical ability, organization, and accurate management of competing deadlines.

Process high-volume client payroll accurately and on time. Review, input, balance, and analyze payroll data and reports; ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations; troubleshoot issues; advise and educate clients; and build stakeholder partnerships that support client retention and growth.

Manage biweekly payroll processing and compliance for US, Canada, and Mexico, reconcile and publish payroll data, support managed-service providers, maintain SOPs, review tax remittances and garnishments, provide payroll issue resolution and reporting, and partner with People Operations, Finance, and Benefits on payroll processes and improvements.

Provides end-to-end payroll processing and customer support for multiple managed accounts. Responsibilities include resolving cases and escalations, conducting root cause analysis, configuring Workday payroll components, supporting payroll taxes and year-end processes, troubleshooting audit reports, leading client calls, maintaining documentation, and meeting service-level, quality, and production targets.

Manage end-to-end international payroll for clients across the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and additional countries. Process payroll changes, reconcile results, coordinate funding and filings, resolve client issues, and maintain accurate records. Help establish payroll processes in new countries by researching statutory and tax requirements. Use ADP, Rippling, Salesforce, and other systems while documenting procedures and supporting continuous improvement.

Implements payroll and related services for new clients. Responsibilities include onboarding clients across multiple states, reviewing payroll data, entering and balancing payroll information, ensuring federal, state, and local compliance, processing payroll, analyzing reports, distributing results, and supporting client relationships. The role manages high volumes of small-to-medium-sized clients and serves as a trusted advisor to internal partners.

Resolve complex payroll corrections, amended returns, tax notices, and multi-jurisdiction payroll issues for employer customers. Diagnose root causes, coordinate with tax operations, product, and engineering, explain resolutions to partners, and help document and automate recurring processes. The role requires payroll-provider experience across prior-quarter and prior-year amendments, state and local taxes, agency notices, and Canadian equivalents.

Provide expert US payroll support to partners and customers, resolve complex payroll and tax issues, educate support teams, lead training, and build scalable knowledge and customer experience processes. The role collaborates with product and engineering on platform improvements, audits payroll operations, analyzes data, and serves as a primary partner contact. It requires strong payroll expertise, customer communication, spreadsheet skills, ticketing-system experience, and comfort working autonomously in a fast-paced startup.

Manage the complete payroll process for assigned clients, ensuring accurate and timely payroll administration. Use ADP Workforce Now, Rippling, and Salesforce CRM to support multi-client payroll operations. Maintain strong attention to detail, meet quality and client service standards, manage deadlines, and build trusted relationships with clients and colleagues.

Processes weekly multi-state payroll for approximately 400 construction employees, including union payroll, adjustments, garnishments, payroll taxes, certified payroll, prevailing wage reporting, and W-2s. Audits timecards, labor allocations, job costing, and payroll data; reconciles payroll and maintains compliance with wage laws. Partners with HR, Accounting, project managers, and field supervisors while responding to employee inquiries, supporting audits, maintaining confidential records, and improving payroll processes.

Owns end-to-end multi-entity payroll processing and benefits administration, ensuring accurate payments, tax compliance, reconciliations, benefits enrollment, carrier coordination, and employee support. Maintains HRIS and personnel records, supports onboarding, offboarding, I-9 compliance, reporting, audits, and HR projects. Partners with Finance and HR across multiple business units, including nonprofit and international worker administration.

Manage complex U.S. and Canadian payroll tax compliance, including audits, agency inquiries, filings, reconciliations, tax adjustments, employee tax configurations, and W-2/W-2c and T4 reporting. Resolve escalated tax matters, oversee registrations and vendor coordination, identify control gaps, and improve payroll tax processes while ensuring regulatory accuracy and timely reporting.

Owns global payroll, benefits administration, HRIS operations, compliance, audits, and total rewards analytics across the U.S., Canada, U.K., and Europe. The role manages payroll vendors and benefits programs, leads open enrollment, ensures multi-jurisdictional compliance, optimizes HR systems, reconciles benefits costs, and mentors offshore People Operations staff.