Location: Santa Ana, CA
Pay Range: $35-40/hour
Benefits: Health, dental, and vision insurance. 401(k)
Role Overview: Brilliant Financial Staffing has been engaged in the search for a Certified Payroll Specialist. Our client located in Santa Ana, CA is looking for a Certified Payroll Specialist to join their team on a Contract basis. They are seeking a Certified Payroll Specialist that has experience in a fast-paced, multi-state payroll environment and has utilized LPCTracker. Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply immediately!
Key Responsibilities:
- Research and apply federal Davis-Bacon, state, local, union/CBA, and project-specific prevailing wage requirement
- Review wage determinations, classifications, base rates, fringe benefits, overtime rules, and effective dates
- Prepare, review, reconcile, and submit certified payroll reports, including WH-347 and electronic reporting systems such as LCPtracker
- Validate project coding, employee classifications, hours worked, wage rates, fringes, deductions, and overtime before submission
- Reconcile certified payroll data to payroll and timekeeping systems; identify and coordinate corrections for discrepancies or underpayments
- Support multi-state project setup by confirming funding source, project location, wage determination, classifications, and reporting requirements
- Monitor wage-rate changes, reporting deadlines, rejected submissions, and required non-performance reports
- Support audits, investigations, restitution calculations, corrected certified payrolls, and document requests
- Partner with Payroll, Operations, Project Management, Estimating, Finance/Billing, HR/HRIS, and Compliance to resolve prevailing wage issues
- Maintain complete, audit-ready project documentation and escalate ambiguous classification or regulatory issues when formal guidance is needed
- Must be able to thrive in a fast-paced, multi-state payroll environment
- Must have experience as a Certified Payroll Specialist - Leo mentioned if you do a LinkedIn keyword search, that will pull candidates with that background, usually in the construction industry
- System: LCPtracker is a must-have, common in the construction industry for time-keeping
- Great communication skills
Brilliant Staffing, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
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