Payroll Specialist/Bilingual

AppleOne Employment Services; Santa Clarita (CA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Major medical

Dental

Vision

401k

Sick pay

Job summary

AppleOne Employment Services is seeking an experienced Payroll Specialist/Bilingual for a temp-to-hire role in the Valencia and Santa Clarita area. The position focuses on accurate, timely biweekly payroll processing, labor allocations, payroll reconciliations, reporting, and compliance.

Being bilingual in Spanish is highly preferred, and the role supports a collaborative team environment with opportunities to impact payroll operations across departments.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on biweekly payroll processing
• Experience reconciling timecards and labor allocations
• Strong Excel skills and attention to detail

Responsibilities

• Process accurate biweekly payroll for high-volume employee population
• Review timecards, reconcile hours, resolve discrepancies
• Manage labor allocations, job costing, payroll adjustments
• Reconcile payroll with timekeeping and ERP systems
• Assist with payroll reporting, audits, documentation, and process improvements
• Collaborate with supervisors and internal teams to ensure payroll accuracy

Skills

Full-cycle payroll processing

Timecard reconciliation

Excel skills (VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP/Pivot)

Payroll systems/domain knowledge

Tools

Paylocity

ExakTime

NetSuite

Job description

Job Summary

A growing business services organization in the Valencia and Santa Clarita area is seeking an experienced Payroll Specialist/Bilingual for a temp-to-hire opportunity. This role is ideal for a detail-oriented payroll professional who enjoys working with numbers, resolving discrepancies, and managing high-volume payroll in a fast-paced environment.

The Payroll Specialist will play a key role in ensuring accurate, timely biweekly payroll processing while supporting labor allocations, payroll reconciliations, reporting, and compliance. This opportunity offers a collaborative team environment, supportive leadership, and the chance to contribute to a payroll function that directly supports employees, supervisors, branch managers, and internal departments.

Bilingual Spanish is HIGHLY PREFERRED.

Key Responsibilities

• Process accurate and timely biweekly payroll for a high-volume employee population.
• Review timecards, reconcile hours, and resolve payroll discrepancies.
• Manage labor allocations, job costing, payroll adjustments, and related payroll data.
• Reconcile payroll information across payroll, timekeeping, and ERP systems.
• Assist with payroll reporting, audits, documentation, and process improvements.
• Collaborate with supervisors, branch managers, and internal teams to ensure payroll accuracy and issue resolution.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Process full-cycle biweekly payroll accurately and on schedule.
• Reconcile timecards, hours, labor allocations, and payroll data.
• Manage payroll discrepancies, adjustments, and reporting support.
• Partner with internal teams to support payroll accuracy and compliance.
• 3 or more years of hands‑on payroll processing experience.
• Experience independently managing full payroll cycles.
• Strong Excel skills, including VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP, and PivotTables.
• Knowledge of labor costing, payroll reconciliations, and wage and hour regulations.
• Experience using payroll, timekeeping, and ERP systems.
• Ability to multitask, troubleshoot discrepancies, meet deadlines, and maintain strong attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with supervisors, managers, and internal departments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bilingual English and Spanish skills.
• Experience with Paylocity, ExakTime, and NetSuite.
• Payroll experience in construction, landscaping, or another labor-intensive industry.
• Experience supporting high-volume or multi-location payroll.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Disabled / Protected Veterans

The Know Your Rights poster is available here: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12.pdf

The pay transparency policy is available here: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ofccp/pdf/pay-transp_%20English_formattedESQA508c.pdf

• For temporary assignments lasting 13 weeks or longer, AppleOne is pleased to offer major medical, dental, vision, 401k and any statutory sick pay where required.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact your staffing representative who will reach out to our HR team.

AppleOne participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law. Learn more about the E-Verify program. https://e-verify.uscis.gov/web/media/resourcesContents/E-Verify_Participation_Poster_ES.pdf

We also consider for employment qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements, including, if applicable, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. Pursuant to applicable state and municipal Fair Chance Laws and Ordinances, we will consider for employment-qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, including, if applicable, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. For Los Angeles, CA applicants: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.