Payroll & HRIS Manager

Join Our Passionate Team at The Arc of San Diego! Are you ready to make a real difference in the lives of children and adults with disabilities? At The Arc of San Diego, we are the largest and most comprehensive provider of services in San Diego County, and we’re looking for dedicated individuals like you to join our diverse and dynamic team.

We believe in putting people first and creating meaningful days for our clients and each other. If you’re passionate about empowering others to live their most fulfilling and independent lives, and you’re excited about professional growth and continuous learning, we want you on our team!

About the job

At The Arc of San Diego, we believe every person deserves the opportunity to live a fulfilling, independent life. We're looking for an experienced HRIS & Payroll professional who is passionate about accuracy, continuous improvement, customer service, and leveraging technology to support employees and organizational success.

Join a Mission That Matters. As our HRIS & Payroll Manager , you will play a critical role in ensuring the accurate and timely processing of payroll while serving as a trusted resource for employees, managers, and leadership. This is a highly visible position that combines payroll expertise, HRIS administration, reporting and analytics, benefits support, and process improvement.

You'll work closely with Human Resources, Finance, vendors, and leaders across the organization to deliver exceptional service and maintain the integrity of our people data. Location: 3030 Market St. San Diego CA 92102 Schedule: Mon- Fri 8a-5p Pay: The pay range for this position is $90,000 to $95,000.

What You'll Do

Manage end-to-end semi-monthly payroll processing using Dayforce. Maintain employee payroll and HRIS data, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and data integrity. Create and analyze payroll, labor, benefits, compliance, and workforce reports to support business decisions. Administer payroll-related programs including garnishments, deductions, retirement plan funding, and payroll tax activities.

Support benefits administration, open enrollment, vendor reconciliation, and carrier integrations. Partner with leaders and employees to resolve payroll, HRIS, and timekeeping questions. Identify opportunities for automation, efficiency, and process improvement across HR and payroll operations.

What You'll Bring

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Human Resources, or a related field (or equivalent combination of education and experience). 3-5+ years of progressive payroll experience, including multi-department payroll processing. Advanced Excel skills and the ability to analyze large, complex datasets. Strong knowledge of payroll administration, payroll taxes, wage and hour regulations, and payroll compliance.

Experience with HRIS platforms; Dayforce experience strongly preferred. Exceptional attention to detail, customer service, communication, and problem-solving skills. Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) credential a plus. Why Join The Arc of San Diego?At The Arc of San Diego , you'll join a dedicated team committed to empowering children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities to achieve their fullest potential.

You'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact while working with colleagues who are passionate about service, inclusion, and excellence. If you're a payroll expert who enjoys solving problems, improving systems, and delivering exceptional service, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today and help us build a workplace where people and purpose come together.

The Arc of San Diego is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We have a strict policy against harassment and retaliation of any type and are dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities and general treatment during employment.

Our goal is to provide a work environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation as well as other disrespectful or other unprofessional conduct based on any protected class or any combination of two or more protected classes: race (including natural hairstyles and hair texture), color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), national origin (including language use restrictions), age (40 and over), legally protected medical condition (including cancer and AIDS/HIV), physical or mental disability, marital and domestic partner status, sex (including sex stereotypes and pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, reproductive health decision making, ancestry, genetic information/ characteristics, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender, military and veteran status, known status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking or of certain violent crimes, or whose covered family member is a homicide victim, enrollment in a public assistance program, off duty and off-site cannabis use or any other characteristic or activity protected by law.

We also prohibit discrimination, harassment, retaliation, disrespectful or unprofessional conduct based on the perception that anyone has any of the above characteristics or is associated with a person who has or is perceived to have any of those characteristics. The Arc of San Diego is a federal subcontractor and shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.

4(a), 60- 300.5(a) and 60-741.5(a). These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin, and for inquiring about, discussing or disclosing compensation.

Moreover, these regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. The Arc of San Diego will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified candidates with disabilities unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.

If candidates need assistance to perform their job duties because of a physical or mental condition, they should contact their Supervisor or Human Resources.