Senior Payroll Analyst

Senior Payroll Analyst

Pacific Staffing is recruiting an experienced Senior Payroll Analyst for a respected Northern California organization known for its commitment to accuracy, compliance, and operational excellence. This role is ideal for a payroll professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys solving complex payroll challenges, and brings strong technical expertise across modern payroll systems. Candidates with multi-state experience, advanced system skills, and a passion for process improvement will excel here. The Senior Payroll Analyst supports accurate, timely, and compliant payroll operations across the enterprise. This role plays a key part in payroll reconciliation, general ledger integration, system testing, and cross-functional coordination with Finance, HRIS, and IT. Onsite in Sacramento or Phoenix. Pay Range: $82,000 - $110,000/Year (DOE) plus bonus.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support end-to-end payroll processing, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance.
• Review payroll results, resolve discrepancies, and manage complex payroll cases including retro adjustments and off-cycle processing.
• Perform payroll-to-general ledger reconciliation, partner with Finance on mapping, accruals, and variance analysis.
• Monitor payroll system functionality and ensure data integrity across HRIS, payroll, and external systems.
• Validate integrations (benefits, timekeeping, banking) and troubleshoot issues with HRIS, IT, and vendors.
• Support Oracle payroll updates, patches, quarterly releases, and testing cycles.
• Participate in payroll projects, system upgrades, automation initiatives, and process improvements.
• Serve as a key point of contact for payroll inquiries and support training/documentation.

Experience processing and managing payroll in Oracle HCM strongly preferred; UKG Pro or Workday experience will also be considered. Experience running weekly payroll is a plus; bi-weekly payroll for large employee populations (15k+) demonstrates the same level of urgency and attention to detail. Experience with configuration of payroll elements, taxes, and payroll processes required.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, HR, or related field.
• 5+ years of progressive payroll processing, payroll accounting, or payroll systems experience.
• Multi-state payroll experience preferred.
• Experience with Oracle HCM or similar payroll systems preferred.
• Strong analytical skills, problem-solving ability, and high attention to detail.
• Ability to manage complex payroll scenarios and competing priorities.
• Effective communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.