UCLA Health

Payroll Supervisor

UCLA Health$80K — $168K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of payroll or finance experience in a complex environment
  • Strong knowledge of payroll regulations and collective bargaining agreements
  • Experience supervising and training a team
  • Proficient in payroll systems, preferably UCPath
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to handle confidential information responsibly
  • Familiarity with timekeeping systems and reconciliation processes

Responsibilities

  • Supervise and mentor payroll staff, ensuring accurate processing
  • Oversee complex payroll transactions and adjustments
  • Ensure compliance with multiple facility payroll policies
  • Identify and resolve payroll discrepancies through detailed review
  • Reconcile differences between payroll systems
  • Act as a resource for departmental inquiries on payroll issues
  • Support labor relations through confidential payroll data analysis
  • Engage in process improvements and system upgrades for payroll operations

Benefits

  • Opportunity for professional development and training
  • Supportive work environment promoting team collaboration
  • Participation in system upgrades and process innovations
  • Engagement with labor relations and collective bargaining processes
  • Access to university system resources and support
  • Comprehensive involvement in payroll operations across healthcare facilities
Full Job Description
Description

Financial Services/Payroll

Lead complex payroll operations for UCLA Health Medical Center employees as a payroll supervisor and technical resource. As the Payroll Supervisor, you will oversee highly complex payroll processing, analysis, reconciliation, and issue resolution across multiple facilities. This role supervises payroll staff, provides subject matter expertise on payroll systems, University of California policies, collective bargaining agreements, payroll controls, and confidential payroll activities, and supports system improvements that promote accurate and timely payroll delivery.

In this role, you will:
• Supervise payroll staff by providing guidance, assigning work, reviewing complex payroll issues, supporting training, and promoting accurate and timely payroll processing.
• Perform and oversee highly complex payroll transactions, including retroactive adjustments, special payments, payroll transfers, leave accrual adjustments, compensatory time, and non-cash awards.
• Process payroll activities across UCLA Health facilities while ensuring compliance with policies, work rules, collective bargaining agreements, and processing deadlines.
• Review payroll reports and queries to identify discrepancies, resolve issues, and support accurate UCPath processing.
• Reconcile payroll and accrual discrepancies between UCPath and Health Business Services timekeeping systems.
• Serve as a primary payroll resource for departmental contacts by interpreting payroll policies, procedures, Title and Pay Plans, collective bargaining agreements, and payroll regulations.
• Provide guidance on complex payroll scenarios, exception handling, escalated inquiries, payroll impacts, and payroll calendar coordination.
• Support confidential payroll activities related to labor relations, including payroll data analysis for collective bargaining changes, pay practice evaluations, and contract-related cost impacts.
• Participate in payroll system and timekeeping upgrades, process reviews, documentation updates, training material development, audit controls, secure record maintenance, and cross-functional reporting needs.

Salary Range:

$80,700 to $168,500 annually

About UCLA Health

UCLA Health is a world-renowned academic medical center located in Los Angeles, California. It comprises four hospitals, including Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, and more than 200 primary and specialty care clinics. UCLA Health is affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and is consistently ranked among the top hospitals in the United States. The health system employs over 20,000 people and serves as a major center for patient care, medical education, and research.
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