Payroll Specialist
Date: Jun 19, 2025
Location: Rosemead, CA, US, 91770-3714
Company: Southern California Edison
Join the Clean Energy Revolution
Become a Payroll Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you will work in a team environment on payroll processing, partner with other Payroll Specialists on continuous improvements, best practices and collaborate with our business partners to optimize automation to increase efficiency. Be able to troubleshoot and resolve various payroll related issues, questions, or situations in accordance with defined criteria, best practices, or protocols related to payroll.
As a Specialist, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?
Responsibilities
- Maintains and monitors payroll processing and systems (e.g. accounting and management information systems) to ensure timely and accurate processing of payroll transactions including salaries, benefits, garnishments, taxes, and other deductions
- Prepares and delivers accurate and timely processing of payroll updates including new hires, terminations, and changes to pay rates
- Upholds compliance with federal, state, and local payroll, wage, and hour laws and best practices
- Assists with audits by providing records and documentation to auditors
- Deploys suggested updates to payroll accounting software, systems, and procedures
- Organizes and gathers payroll data such as hours worked, sales or piecework, taxes, insurance, union dues to be withheld, and employee identification numbers, from time sheets and other records
- Assists the Finance team in the preparation of GL reports and answering payroll questions about salary/tax/deduction
- Carries out processing, data entry, validation, reconciliation, and auditing for payrolls using SAP/Payroll systems
- Assists with opportunities to improve the payroll process and acts proactively to help resolve escalations
- Reviews and processes employee expense reports, including processing manual check and direct deposit payments
- A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.
Minimum Qualifications
- Three or more years of experience in accounting or payroll.
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficient with Microsoft Excel performing functions such as VLOOKUP’s, pivot tables, filtering/sorting, charts and graphing.
- Knowledge of federal, state, and local payroll regulations and laws.
- Experience using Success Factors, SAP and/or other similar enterprise-wide software.
- Experience developing and delivering technical presentations to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong ethics and the ability to manage multiple projects and engage in continuous learning.
Additional Information
- This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
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- Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
About Southern California Edison
The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.
Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.
We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at (833) 343-0727.
