HR & Payroll Lead for Live Events & Festivals

AEG; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 36,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

AEG is seeking an HR & Payroll Lead to support payroll operations across festivals, venues, and touring management teams. You will serve as a liaison for HR and payroll, guiding coordinators and specialists, ensuring accurate timekeeping, attendance, and payroll processing across regions.

You will lead weekly event-based payroll cycles, manage high-volume transactions, and help maintain compliant personnel files.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or its equivalency (BA/BS Degree Preferred) In Human Resources, Psychology, or Business Administration preferred.
• 4-6 years Human Resources experience
• Experience working in an HRIS system to process payroll and data changes

Responsibilities

• Assist with aligning and creating the best payroll practices across all regions for HR & Payroll Coordinators and Specialists to ensure consistency across all regions.
• Aid employees with daily payroll, PTO, timesheet and system issues. Assist management with reports, timesheet issues, etc.
• Support festivals, regional offices, venues, and touring with the event staff on-boarding lifecycle, which includes leading the coordination of event staff new hire paperwork, ensuring employees are in both the time and attendance and payroll system throughout all of AEG Presents for consistency.
• Lead the weekly processing of event-based payroll including ensuring all time reports are submitted timely and audits/approvals are completed timely to ensure the processing of the weekly payroll.
• Process and document a high-volume of transactions involving staff, including: promotions pay increases, data updates, and terminations. Send documentation to appropriate parties for approvals and coordinate with other departments on execution. Identify, update and streamline improvement opportunities in processes or documentation across all of AEG Presents.
• Assist the VP HR and Director HR with specialized projects as needed.
• Ensure all personnel files are properly maintained by creating new hire files, I-9 file maintenance for compliance, termination files and annual shipments for storage.
• Assist in the creation and maintenance of current job descriptions for all part-time event employees.
• Remain current on changes in wage & hour law by continuously researching all federal, state and local human resources laws and provide monthly updates to the HR Management.
• Act as a top-level specialist when supporting new and current employees with payroll and systems training. Schedule training and track attendance for participants. Ensure compliance with training requirements.

Skills

Payroll processing

HRIS experience

Microsoft Office

Reporting in Excel

Communication skills

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Tools

HRIS

Job description

AEG is seeking an HR & Payroll Lead to support payroll operations across festivals, venues, and touring management teams. You will serve as a liaison for HR and payroll, guiding coordinators and specialists, ensuring accurate timekeeping, attendance, and payroll processing across regions.

You will lead weekly event-based payroll cycles, manage high-volume transactions, and help maintain compliant personnel files.