Payroll Specialist / HR Coordinator – Sacramento, CA

Compensation: $60,000 - $75,000

Schedule: Onsite. Mon- Fri 8am -5pm

Location: Sacramento, CA 95815

Employment: Type: Full-Time

About Corfini Meat & Seafood

Corfini Meat & Seafood is a premium food processing and wholesale food distribution company operating facilities across multiple states. We are known for high standards in food safety, quality, and operational execution, supported by well‑maintained production environments and reliable equipment systems. We invest in our people, our equipment, and the processes that keep our operations running safely and efficiently.

From our warehouses in Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, South San Francisco, San Diego, and Palm Springs, we proudly serve a diverse customer base—including restaurants, grocers, catering companies, food trucks, corporate food service, healthcare, and educational facilities across the West Coast. Our customers consistently recognize us as a leading distributor within the protein industry. Our company continues to grow while staying true to our core values: delivering sustainable, locally focused programs, providing exceptional customer service, and offering competitive pricing. As a chef‑driven organization, we are committed to being an unrivaled leader and educator in all proteins, nose to tail.

Role Overview:

The Payroll Specialist / HR Coordinator plays a key role in Corfini Meat & Seafood’s payroll process. This position ensures accurate, timely payroll processing while maintaining compliance with state and federal regulations. The role also supports employee file management, benefit administration, insurance billing, and day‑to‑day HR tasks. This is an excellent opportunity for a detail‑oriented professional who thrives in a fast‑paced environment and enjoys being a trusted resource for employees and managers.

Responsibilities:

• Ensures the accuracy and timeliness of bi-weekly payroll processing while resolving all associated payroll-related issues. Monitor departments’ time records in timekeeping software and assist departments with payroll questions.
• Processes approved payroll and status changes such as termination, department transfers, benefit and accruals and updates, rate of pay, premium adjustments, and other miscellaneous payroll/personnel related information.
• Enters new hire information into the HRIS.
• Prepares and transmits payroll contributions and reports, including retirement and HSA.
• Performs monthly, quarterly, fiscal year end payroll procedures.
• Prepares requested documents and files for annual external financial and workers compensation audits.
• Checks all benefit monthly billing and deferred compensation to reconcile against the payroll system.
• Manage garnishments pursuant to legal documents.
• Respond to employment verifications requests.
• Manages vacation and time off requests in payroll; ensuring proper payment and tracking.
• Prepares journal entries and accruals.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or human resources, or related field or combination of equivalent work experience.
• Three to five years of experience in processing payroll.
• Experience using Paylocity, preferred.
• Multi-state payroll processing experience preferred.
• Advanced working knowledge of payroll/personnel, wage and hour compliance per state and federal laws.
• Ability to solve problems, exercise sound judgment in planning, scheduling and completing assignments in an independent manner based on policies and procedures.
• Highly detail oriented and ability to meet deadlines.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with supervisors and other employees.
• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
• Demonstrated customer service, problem solving and common-sense skills.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, for longer periods of time, talk, hear, and use hands to manipulate, handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distant vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. In addition, the employee must be able to rotate the neck frequently, extend hands/arms overhead frequently, and turn fully from a fixed stance.

Tools and Equipment:

Computer, printer, 10-Key, scanner, Microsoft Office Suite, Internet Explorer, copier, telephone, voice mail, email, and other associated equipment.

Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee works in an office. The noise level in the work environment is generally quiet when in the office.

Why Join Corfini Meat & Seafood

• Stable, growing organization with strong investment in facilities and its employees
• Career growth potential

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance