Processing Payroll Specialist

Confidential; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 34,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential in San Diego, CA is seeking a Processing Payroll Specialist to manage wage distribution, timekeeping, deductions, and tax compliance. You will collect and verify payroll data, reconcile payroll-related ledgers, and prepare statements for payroll accounts.

Responsibilities include audit responses, payroll reconciliations, UKG data reviews, and year-end W-2/T4 processing. Ideal candidates have 1–4 years in payroll and strong Excel/data skills.

Qualifications

• 1–4 years of payroll experience.
• Experience processing full-cycle payroll.
• High attention to detail with confidential compensation data.
• Strong proficiency in Excel, data analysis, reconciliation, and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Assist with responses to audits, labor compliance reviews, and inquiries.
• Perform payroll reconciliations related to earnings, deductions, taxes, and garnishments.
• Review payroll data and audit employee transactions within UKG.
• Prepare payroll tax filings and year-end W-2/T4 processing.
• Process weekly multi-state payroll for 3,000+ employees.
• Review timesheets and wage adjustments before finalizing pay runs.

Skills

Payroll processing

Data analysis

Excel proficiency

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Microsoft Excel

UKG

Job description

The Processing Payroll Specialist is responsible for employee wage distribution, timesheet verification, deductions, and tax compliance, preparing, calculating, and maintaining complex payroll compensation, timekeeping, and attendance records within the Payroll Dept. Collects, verifies, and stores organizational payroll data. Inputs changes, reconciles payroll-related general ledger and prepares reports or statements summarizing payroll-related accounts.

Duties

• Assist with responses to internal and external audits, labor compliance reviews, and government agency inquiries.
• Perform payroll reconciliations related to earnings, deductions, taxes, garnishments.
• Review payroll data and audit employee transactions within UKG.
• Prepare payroll tax filings, manage year-end W-2/T4 processing, and assist with internal or external audit.
• Process weekly multi-state payroll for 3,000+ employees.
• Process full-cycle payroll transactions, termination payouts, prevailing wage.
• Review timesheets, leave balances (vacation, sick, personal), and wage adjustments before finalizing pay runs

Required Qualifications

• 1-4 years of payroll experience.
• Experience Processing full-cycle Payroll.
• High attention to detail, strict discretion with confidential compensation data, analytical problem-solving skills.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, data analysis, reconciliation, and reporting.

Preferred Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Familiarity with prevailing wage classifications, fringe benefit calculations, apprenticeship requirements, and labor compliance reporting.

The starting hourly pay for this role is between USD $25 - $28 /Hr. The actual pay is dependent upon many factors, such as location, training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.