Foster Farms
Payroll Supervisor
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Livingston, California, United States
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Finance
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in business, Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, or a related field preferred; an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience may be considered.
- Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) or Fundamental Payroll Certification (FPC) preferred.
- Three or more years of progressive payroll operations experience required; prior experience supervising or leading payroll professionals strongly preferred.
- Experience supporting a large, complex, multi-state, multi-entity payroll environment with multiple pay groups and both union and non-union populations.
- Two or more years of experience using UKG Pro Pay and People Center, UKG Workforce Management, or a comparable SaaS payroll and timekeeping platform preferred.
- Working knowledge of federal, state, and local payroll tax and wage and hour requirements, payroll accounting, garnishments, deductions, taxable benefits, and collective bargaining provisions.
- Demonstrated understanding of payroll balancing, general ledger interfaces, reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, labor allocations, and payroll-related financial reporting.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including data analysis, lookups, pivot tables, data manipulation, reconciliation, and preparation of system upload files.
- Strong leadership, coaching, analytical, organizational, communication, customer service, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, exercise sound judgment under tight deadlines, and communicate issues and decisions effectively to all levels of the organization.
- Demonstrated discretion and integrity in handling confidential, personal, and protected information.
- Self-directed, detail-oriented, collaborative, and able to perform effectively in a high-volume, fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
Full description
Salary range is $70,304-$83,750 per year
Purpose of the position:
The Payroll Supervisor leads the accurate, timely, compliant, and team member-focused delivery of payroll for more than 10,000 team members across multiple legal entities, states, pay groups, and union and non-union populations. This role supervises payroll professionals, directs end-to-end payroll processing and settlement, strengthens controls, and resolves complex payroll, tax, accounting, system, and integration issues. The Payroll Supervisor partners closely with Human Resources, Benefits, Workforce Management, Finance, Accounting, Legal, Operations, HRIS, banking partners, and third-party vendors to meet payroll deadlines, respond to audits and inquiries, reduce risk, and continuously improve service delivery.
Purpose of the position:
- Lead end-to-end payroll operations for more than 10,000 team members across multiple legal entities, states, pay frequencies, and union and non-union populations.
- Establish and manage payroll processing calendars, work assignments, coverage plans, payroll checklists, and approval requirements for regular, off-cycle, holiday, month-end, quarter-end, and year-end processing.
- Review payroll inputs, calculations, audit reports, reconciliations, exception reports, and final outputs; determine whether processing should proceed or pause when material issues arise.
- Ensure payroll funding, ACH files, pay statements, checks, tax deposits, garnishment payments, and other required outputs are accurate, authorized, and transmitted on time.
- Oversee year-end payroll activities, including taxable wage and benefit reviews, W-2 processing and corrections, annual reconciliations, and employee communications.
- Provide timely, accurate, and professional resolution of escalated payroll questions and issues; identify root causes and implement sustainable corrective actions.
People Leadership
- Supervise, coach, train, and develop payroll professionals; set clear expectations, balance workloads, monitor performance, and maintain depth of coverage for critical processes.
- Promote accountability, collaboration, customer service, confidentiality, and operational excellence across the payroll team.
- Develop procedures, job aids, and training materials; conduct payroll policy, process, and system training for payroll staff and business partners as needed.
Compliance, Controls, and Audit
- Maintain current knowledge of federal, state, and local payroll tax, wage and hour, garnishment, unclaimed wage, record-retention, collective bargaining, and company policy requirements.
- Ensure payroll activities comply with applicable laws, collective bargaining agreements, company policies, banking requirements, tax regulations, generally accepted accounting principles, and internal controls.