What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Payroll Specialist position at San Luis Coastal Unified School District?

San Luis Coastal USD

Application Deadline

4/13/2025 11:55 PM Pacific

Date Posted

4/1/2025

Contact

Alisa Rady

Number of Openings

Salary

Add'l Salary Info

Initial placement will be based on promotional placement rules. This classification is on range 234 of the CSEA salary schedule, where step 1 is $34.51 per hour.

Length of Work Year

245 work days/year, plus 15 paid holidays; 8 hours/day

Employment Type

Full Time

Lead Payroll Specialist

IN-HOUSE VACANCY - INTERNAL CANDIDATES ONLY

This position is only available to current employees of this school district. Applications submitted by job seekers not currently employed by the school district will not be considered.

About the Employer

San Luis Coastal Unified School District represents the communities of Avila, Edna Valley, Los Osos, Morro Bay, and San Luis Obispo and currently has an enrollment of approximately 7,500 students. Small neighborhood schools are a hallmark of the District where students are educated from preschool through twelfth grade and a world-class adult school program offers unique, life-improving courses to thousands of community members.

Job Summary

FOR INTERNAL CANDIDATES ONLY* (email HR Tech listed on posting to get password to apply): The San Luis Coastal Unified School District is looking for a skilled Lead Payroll Specialist for our Fiscal Services Department. The Lead Payroll Specialist will perform a variety of specialized payroll, benefits, and retirement accounting duties, serve as a technical resource to payroll and fiscal staff and prepare, maintain and audit a variety of financial and statistical payroll, benefits, and retirement data, records statements and reports. This is an in-person, full-time position in San Luis Obispo, that is supervised by the Director of Fiscal Services and will provide functional supervision of a small team of Payroll Specialists. Qualified candidates will have a combination of experience and training that should include six years of increasingly responsible payroll & financial recordkeeping experience, with at least two years in a public school system (or comparable setting). College coursework in accounting and/or finance is also desired.

Requirements / Qualifications

NOTE that a Resume showing dates worked at each job, and a Letter of Recommendation are required and must be submitted along with the application. If candidates have trouble uploading the documents, they should contact the Human Resources Technician listed on this posting for assistance or additional options for submission prior to the application deadline.

Copy of Transcript (Transcript showing coursework in accounting and/or finance, if applicable.)
Letter(s) of Recommendation (At least 1 signed letter from a professional reference (preferably drafted within the past two years, and on letterhead))
Resume

Comments and Other Information

The purpose of this recruitment is to fill a current vacancy, and to establish an eligibility list for vacancies that may occur over a six month period. The tentative start date for the position is as soon as possible following the conclusion of the recruitment process. *Candidates must be eligible for promotion within SLCUSD to be considered (email HR Tech listed on posting to get password to apply). After successful submission of an application, candidates should receive an automatic confirmation email from EDJoin. Applicants should check their spam/junk folder if they do not receive an email. Notifications regarding eligibility to proceed and additional recruitment steps will also be sent from EDJoin. Candidates who successfully pass screening and have submitted all required documents will be invited to proceed to an exam, scheduled for Friday, April 18, 2025. Candidates who pass the exam with a score of 70% or higher may be invited to oral board interviews, planned for the same date as the exam, April 18, 2025. Candidates must pass oral board interviews with a score of 70 or higher to be added to the eligibility list. The top three (3) ranked candidates after the exam and oral board interviews will be invited to a hiring interview, date TBD. SPECIAL NOTES: 1) Correctly filling out forms and following other instructions contained in this notice are part of the testing process. 2) Applicants with disabilities must notify the Personnel Office of any special needs so that adequate preparation may be made for their testing. 3) Veterans qualifying for the oral board examination may receive 5 additional points added to their final score if proof of discharge is submitted at time of oral board interview. A "veteran" as used here means any person who served in the United States armed forces or National Guard in time of war or national emergency. 4) Eligibility lists are established for a period of six months.

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