BKF Engineers
Prevailing Wage & Payroll Administrator
Los Angeles, California, United States · Senior
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About the role
- BKF is a multi-service infrastructure consulting firm providing civil engineering and surveying services across California, the Pacific Northwest, and beyond.
- With offices throughout California and the Portland area, BKF has served transportation, water resources, land development, government, and federal clients for over 110 years.
- At BKF, you'll find a unique opportunity to grow your career with intention.
Responsibilities
- BKF Engineers is seeking an experienced Prevailing Wage & Payroll Administrator to support payroll operations for employees working on prevailing wage and public works projects.
- Maintain payroll records, rate tables, and payroll system data.
- Validate employee classifications, project assignments, and labor allocations.
- Collaborate with Payroll, HR, Finance, Project Accounting, and Operations to resolve payroll issues.
- Support labor compliance reviews, audits, and regulatory reporting.
- Support multi-state payroll processing and ensure employees are paid accurately and on schedule.
- Support payroll tax compliance requirements, including payroll tax reporting, reconciliations, filings, and compliance with federal, state, and local regulations.
- Ability to interpret wage determinations and maintain payroll rate tables.
Requirements
- 5+ years of payroll processing experience.
- 3+ years of experience processing prevailing wage.
- Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, or a related field.
- Experience with California prevailing wage payroll.
- Experience auditing payroll, performing reconciliations, and processing payroll adjustments.
- Experience with ERP and payroll platforms such as Deltek Vantagepoint (VP), UKG, or equivalent systems.
- Experience processing payroll for a large organization with 500+ employees.
- Experience processing multi-state payroll.
- Experience with overall payroll administration.
- Experience supporting payroll tax compliance requirements.
Compensation
- $87k-$117k
Benefits
- Ensure compliance with wage determinations, classifications, fringe benefits, overtime, and apprenticeship requirements.
- Calculate and administer fringe benefits and CAC apprenticeship contributions.
- Strong knowledge of prevailing wage laws, classifications, fringe benefits, overtime, apprenticeship requirements, and rate changes.
Company info
- Our culture values professional autonomy, innovation, and meaningful collaboration across offices.
- We are proud to be recognized with the Great Place to Work certification for the second year in a row.
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