City: Culver City, CA
Onsite/ Hybrid/ Remote: Hybrid (3-4 days a week onsite) - No Flex in this
Duration: 5 Months (End date: 03/26/2027)
Rate Range: Upto $100/hr on W2
Work Authorization: GC, USC, All valid EADs except H1B, OPT, CPT
Must Have:
- 8+ years of hands-on experience supporting payroll technology, payroll applications, workforce management, or time and attendance systems.
- Strong technical background working within an IT organization.
- Hands-on experience configuring, supporting, troubleshooting, or enhancing enterprise payroll applications.
- Strong end-to-end payroll knowledge, including Hours-to-Gross and Gross-to-Net.
- North American payroll experience supporting U.S. and Canadian employees.
- Strong experience troubleshooting production payroll application issues.
- Experience with payroll integrations, APIs, secure file transfers, data movement, SQL, and system interfaces.
- Experience supporting business-critical payroll production environments.
- Experience leading technical projects, teams, or application support resources.
- Ability to work onsite in Culver City 3 days per week.
Responsibilities:
- Own the day-to-day reliability and technical health of enterprise payroll applications.
- Lead production support and resolution of complex payroll, integration, configuration, data, and timekeeping issues.
- Perform hands-on investigation of application configuration, integrations, data exchanges, interfaces, and technical issues.
- Support payroll application enhancements, upgrades, migrations, releases, and maintenance.
- Partner with Payroll and business teams to define priorities and the payroll technology roadmap.
- Lead root-cause analysis and ensure permanent fixes are implemented for recurring production issues.
- Manage and provide technical direction to a small team of employees and contingent resources.
- Coordinate with architecture, security, data, infrastructure, HR technology, and other IT teams.
- Oversee vendors and external technology partners while maintaining internal ownership of issues and outcomes.
- Support critical payroll cycles and ensure payroll systems remain stable and available.
- Maintain technical documentation, support procedures, testing evidence, and operational standards.
Qualifications:
- Strong technical payroll applications background rather than primarily HR or HRIS operations experience.
- Experience working within complex enterprise IT organizations.
- Proven experience supporting high-volume, business-critical payroll systems.
- Strong understanding of payroll integrations and data exchanges between payroll and HRIS platforms.
- Experience communicating with both technical teams and payroll/business stakeholders.
- Experience leading projects or technical teams. Formal Director-level people management experience is not required.
- Ability to balance hands-on technical work with leadership and business partnership responsibilities.
Nice to Have:
- UKG Payroll experience.
- Infor WFM experience.
- Workday experience.
- ADP or other major enterprise payroll platform experience.
- Union payroll and collective bargaining agreement experience.
- Entertainment industry experience.
- Experience supporting highly complex payroll environments.
- Prior payroll application implementation or consulting experience, provided the candidate is comfortable with an application support-focused role.