Top Payroll Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Leads global payroll delivery across 15+ countries, ensuring accurate processing, tax and labor compliance, filings, controls, and employee support. Oversees payroll technology including Workday, ADP Workforce Now, and Celergo; drives AI-enabled automation, process transformation, global expansion, and M&A integrations. Partners with HR, Finance, Legal, and Technology, develops the payroll team, reports executive metrics, and continuously improves payroll operations.

Processes payroll settlements and on-demand payments in clients’ Workday applications, maintains support documentation, manages daily control reports, and resolves treasury exceptions. The role supports multiple customers in a fast-paced environment, requiring strong organization, communication, customer service, mathematical ability, discretion, and attention to detail. It is an entry-level opportunity with no supervisory responsibilities.

The Payroll Specialist will perform multi-state payroll processing, manage records for new hires, ensure compliance with tax laws, and respond to payroll inquiries. Responsibilities include auditing labor, reconciling commissions, and managing paycheck distribution, among other tasks.

Processes bi-weekly payroll, reconciles payroll and general ledger accounts, maintains employee payroll records, administers deductions and garnishments, supports payroll tax activities, resolves employee pay inquiries, prepares reports and journal entries, manages payroll system interfaces, and assists with audits and leave-related payroll processing.

Oversee high-volume, multi-state payroll operations, including weekly, biweekly, and monthly processing, tax compliance, W-2 reporting, payroll reconciliations, audits, general ledger uploads, and discrepancy resolution. Manage Workday, ADP, and OSV payroll systems, vendors, and reporting. Supervise, train, and mentor payroll staff while collaborating with HR, Finance, and external partners to maintain data integrity and improve operational efficiency.

Manage end-to-end U.S. payroll and support international payroll activities. Analyze payroll data, resolve complex tax and wage issues, ensure regulatory compliance, perform reconciliations and controls, and support Workday Payroll reporting and enhancements. Lead payroll projects, process improvements, audits, year-end activities, documentation, and cross-functional initiatives with HR, Accounting, HRIS, and external vendors.

Own and operate end-to-end payroll processing for a rapidly growing company, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payments. Manage multi-state tax, wage-and-hour, garnishment, and year-end requirements; partner with People on employee changes, benefits, equity, and offboarding. Manage payroll providers, reconcile payroll to the general ledger, support monthly close, and build scalable policies, controls, and documentation. Implement measured AI and automation while establishing the payroll function in-house.

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.

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.

Leads multi-jurisdictional payroll tax administration, compliance monitoring, controls, reconciliations, audits, and regulatory updates across U.S., Canadian, and global payroll operations. Investigates tax notices and discrepancies, performs root-cause analysis, maintains audit-ready documentation, and partners with HR, Finance, Legal, government agencies, vendors, and external advisors to improve payroll processes and reduce compliance risk.

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.

Process accurate, compliant payroll for multiple clients across varying frequencies and multiple states. Responsibilities include validating and balancing payroll, managing off-cycle payments, supporting tax filings and year-end activities, resolving discrepancies, maintaining payroll configurations, improving processes, documenting procedures, managing client relationships, and meeting billable utilization targets.

Manage end-to-end payroll processing for India, validating inputs, preparing MIS reports, coordinating payments and statutory compliance, reconciling payroll with Finance, resolving discrepancies, supporting audits, maintaining confidential records, and improving payroll systems and processes.

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.

The Payroll Manager oversees end-to-end, multi-state U.S. payroll processing, tax compliance, benefits deductions, garnishments, direct deposits, journal entries, reconciliations, and year-end filings. The role manages Workday time tracking, coordinates international payroll matters, supports Asia payroll, resolves agency inquiries, and supervises and mentors direct reports. It requires strong knowledge of wage-and-hour regulations, payroll taxes, HRIS platforms, confidentiality, accuracy, and deadline management.

Leads global payroll operations across multiple countries and entities, overseeing processing, compliance, controls, vendors, reconciliations, reporting, audits, systems, and continuous improvement. Partners with Finance, Accounting, People, Legal, IT, and Total Rewards on payroll accounting, tax, equity, employee lifecycle changes, and system enhancements. Serves as the senior escalation point, improves employee experience, manages payroll metrics and forecasts, and develops payroll team members and external partners.

Supports accurate and compliant U.S. payroll processing, including biweekly payroll, timekeeping and employee-change validation, tax withholding, multi-state compliance, terminations, reconciliations, audits, reporting, year-end activities, and off-cycle payroll runs. Investigates discrepancies, responds to employee payroll inquiries, maintains confidential records, and provides backup support during absences or high-volume periods.

Processes end-to-end payroll, validates employee pay and deductions, transmits payroll using ADP EV5, reconciles timesheets and tips, prepares labor reports, processes garnishments, maintains audit documentation, and responds to payroll inquiries. The role requires confidentiality, compliance with payroll procedures and union contracts, accurate timekeeping, and flexible onsite work including weekends and holidays.

Own end-to-end payroll, variable compensation, equity administration, payroll tax, fringe taxability, international EOR reconciliation, benefits census, and PEO exit readiness. Design payroll controls, approval workflows, funding calendars, audit trails, and reconciliations across payroll, equity systems, vendors, and accounting. Manage restricted stock, 83(b) elections, ISO and NSO exercises, supplemental withholding, multi-state compliance, W-2 accuracy, reimbursements, and vendor relationships.

Manages end-to-end payroll administration, including wage calculations, deductions, distributions, reporting, reconciliations, journal entries, regulatory compliance, and government filings. Partners with HR and external payroll providers to maintain accurate employee data and support benefits programs. Develops payroll policies and controls, responds to payroll and benefits inquiries, and provides forecasts and reports to leadership. The role requires extensive payroll experience, accounting knowledge, ADP and Microsoft Office proficiency, and a bachelor's degree.

Processes high-volume U.S. payroll, including off-cycle checks, garnishments, payroll GL reconciliations, audits, compliance tasks, inbox management, unclaimed property, reporting, and year-end activities. Uses Workday Payroll and D365 while supporting regular payroll processing, internal controls, and cross-functional projects. Requires strong Excel skills, attention to detail, independent prioritization, and the ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

Manage end-to-end payroll operations across the US, India, and UK, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant processing. Lead an offshore payroll team, own payroll systems and integrations, support implementations and Workday Payroll rollouts, and oversee payroll accounting, reconciliations, audits, tax compliance, controls, and process improvements. Partner with PeopleOps, Benefits, and Accounting while resolving complex payroll issues and protecting confidential employee data.

Serves as the technical subject matter expert for payroll and timekeeping systems. Leads configuration, upgrades, integrations, reporting, testing, troubleshooting, compliance, auditing, and process improvement. Supports complex payroll processing, tax and regulatory filings, data analysis, internal controls, and workforce reporting. Partners with Finance, HR, IT, and operational leaders, while providing training, documentation, mentoring, and business continuity support. Requires strong knowledge of payroll regulations, wage and hour laws, payroll taxes, and related organizational policies.

Manage end-to-end US payroll delivery for client engagements, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant multi-state payroll. Responsibilities include payroll data validation, discrepancy resolution, tax and benefits administration, vendor management, reconciliations, payroll accounting, system testing, implementations, migrations, process improvements, and automation. The role requires adapting quickly to different client environments and collaborating with HR, Finance, senior stakeholders, and payroll partners.

Process and audit biweekly payroll for two companies (~230 employees) using ADP, ensure California and federal compliance, resolve payroll discrepancies, manage terminations and deductions, maintain audit-ready records, support employee payroll inquiries, and recommend process improvements. Hybrid role based in San Ramon, CA.