Job Details

Job Title: Payroll Specialist

Location: Cypress, CA and Buena Park, CA | Onsite

Employment Type: Temp-to-Hire

Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM onsite; alternates weekly between Cypress and Buena Park locations. Eligible for remote work up to 2 days every other week once fully trained. (This could take up to 3+ months)

Compensation: $24 – $36.50 per hour

Job Summary:

The Payroll Specialist supports the Payroll team in processing bi-weekly payroll for 650+ active and contracted employees using ADP Workforce Now and Enterprise eTime. This role assists with daily payroll operations including reviewing time and attendance records, managing time off requests, analyzing California labor and wage compliance, resolving missed punches, and processing schedule changes and payroll adjustments. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, comfortable working with numbers and timekeeping systems, and committed to maintaining accurate and organized payroll records.

Key Responsibilities:

• Process biweekly payroll for 650+ exempt and non-exempt employees across multiple states, ensuring a high level of accuracy.
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local payroll regulations.
• Prepare and submit timely and accurate quarterly payroll reports to government agencies.
• Monitor and resolve daily timekeeping exceptions, including meal penalties and missing punches, using Enterprise E-Time.
• Process final paychecks in compliance with applicable state laws, ensuring timely and accurate payments.
• Calculate and verify payroll adjustments, including wage corrections, overtime, retroactive pay, and PTO payouts.
• Review and input new hire data, ensuring documentation is complete and accurate, and pro-rate salaries when necessary.
• Accurately process wage garnishments, tax withholdings, and benefit deductions.
• Collaborate with ADP and Enterprise eTime support teams to efficiently resolve payroll system issues.
• Apply knowledge of FLSA overtime regulations to ensure accurate payroll processing and compliance.
• Assist with internal and external payroll audits.
• Support year-end payroll activities, including W-2 preparation and distribution.
• Contribute to payroll-related process improvements and collaborate on payroll-related projects.

Qualifications

Required:

• 3+ years of payroll processing experience (2+ years may be considered) with hands-on experience in new hire setup, employee record maintenance, terminations, pay rate changes, benefit updates, payroll auditing, and payroll adjustments.
• Experience supporting payroll in a high-volume, multi-state environment.
• 1+ year of experience using ADP Workforce Now.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including functions such as VLOOKUP, pivot tables, and data validation.
• Must be able to work onsite Monday–Friday, alternating weekly between the Cypress and Buena Park facilities; eligible for remote work up to 2 days every other week.

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Human Resources, or a related field.
• Experience using Enterprise eTime.
• Experience using Payworks and Deputy payroll and workforce management systems.
• Previous experience processing payroll in a manufacturing environment is strongly preferred.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish.