We are looking for an experienced Compensation Consultant to join a semiconductor and electronic components organization in Torrance, California on a contract basis with the potential for a long-term opportunity. This role is designed for a total rewards specialist who can balance strategic program development with deep analytical work, particularly during key year-end compensation activities. The position begins at roughly 20 hours per week, with increased workload expected during compensation planning cycles and the potential to expand into a broader long-term opportunity. The ideal candidate brings strong expertise in compensation design, equity programs, and organizational job structure within a complex, fast-moving business environment.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Lead the development and refinement of compensation programs that align pay practices with business goals and market competitiveness.<br>• Create and maintain job architecture frameworks, including role leveling and compensation mapping across functions.<br>• Analyze compensation data, market benchmarks, and internal trends to support informed reward decisions and executive recommendations.<br>• Prepare presentations, supporting analyses, and milestone plans for Compensation Committee and Board-level review sessions.<br>• Manage compensation-related workstreams tied to mergers, acquisitions, or organizational changes, ensuring sequencing and execution remain on track.<br>• Partner with HR and business leaders to support year-end compensation cycles, including planning, modeling, and decision support.<br>• Provide subject matter expertise on stock-based compensation programs and help guide administration and program effectiveness.<br>• Contribute insight on benefits and total rewards considerations, including coordination points that affect broader employee reward strategies.<br>• Support occasional travel to company locations as needed for stakeholder meetings and program alignment discussions.
<p><strong>Job Title:</strong> Benefits Manager</p><p><strong>Employment Type:</strong> Full-Time</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Overview</strong></p><p>An established, multi-site organization is seeking an experienced <strong>Benefits Manager</strong> to oversee the strategy, administration, and ongoing enhancement of employee benefits programs. This role is well suited for a hands-on benefits professional who can balance day-to-day operations with broader planning initiatives, while ensuring employees receive accurate, responsive, and high-quality support.</p><p>The ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in health and welfare plans, retirement administration, compliance, vendor management, and annual enrollment processes. This individual will also serve as a key internal resource for resolving complex benefits issues and improving operational effectiveness across benefits-related workflows.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p><p>Manage the administration of employee benefit offerings, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, voluntary benefits, and retirement plans</p><p>Lead the full annual enrollment cycle, including planning, system coordination, employee communications, implementation, and post-enrollment review</p><p>Act as the primary internal expert for benefit-related questions, escalations, and issue resolution</p><p>Oversee relationships with external brokers, carriers, retirement partners, and benefit vendors to ensure service quality and effective plan administration</p><p>Monitor benefits billing, reconciliations, payroll deductions, audits, and overall data accuracy across systems</p><p>Administer 401(k) plan operations, including coordination with service providers, participant data review, compliance-related activities, and required reporting support</p><p>Help ensure adherence to applicable benefits regulations and requirements, including ACA, COBRA, HIPAA, and ERISA</p><p>Partner with HR leadership on renewal planning, cost analysis, vendor evaluations, plan recommendations, and process enhancements</p><p>Collaborate closely with Payroll and HRIS teams to maintain accurate deductions, eligibility rules, file feeds, and benefit system configuration</p><p>Identify opportunities to strengthen controls, streamline workflows, improve employee communication, and enhance the overall benefits experience</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Qualifications</strong></p><p>5+ years of progressive experience in employee benefits administration</p><p>Strong background managing health and welfare benefit programs</p><p>Demonstrated experience leading open enrollment and handling complex benefits operations</p><p>Experience working with benefit brokers, carriers, retirement providers, and third-party vendors</p><p>Knowledge of applicable compliance areas such as ACA, COBRA, HIPAA, and ERISA</p><p>Experience with benefits audits, reconciliations, payroll coordination, and data integrity oversight</p><p>Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving abilities</p><p>Advanced communication skills and a service-oriented approach to employee support</p><p>Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field preferred; equivalent experience considered</p><p><br></p>
<p><strong><u>Contract Manager – Construction - Garden Grove, CA</u></strong></p><p><br></p><p>Our client, a national construction company, is seeking an experienced <strong>Contract Manager</strong> to support construction and engineering operations. This is a management role that will oversee the contracting process and personnel and work closely with business leaders on contract review, negotiation, risk management, and vendor agreements.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Large-scale commercial construction contracts experience is required. </strong>Data center experience is a plus.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p><ul><li>Manage and review construction contracts, change orders, releases, service agreements, and vendor contracts.</li><li>Partner with business leaders, Procurement, and Legal on contract negotiations and risk.</li><li>Prepare contract redlines, revisions, and amendments.</li><li>Manage and support other contracts personnel.</li><li>Interpret contract terms and identify potential business and legal risks.</li><li>Maintain contract templates and processes.</li><li>Ensure contracts are reviewed and completed within required timelines.</li></ul>
<p>We are looking for a Commercial Contracts Manager to support contract administration for a privately held retail corporation based in Corona, California. This Long-term Contract position focuses on supporting a busy legal department with preparing, reviewing, and managing commercial agreements with a high degree of accuracy while keeping documentation organized and current. The role works closely with internal partners to move contracts through each stage efficiently and to help maintain compliance with established standards. This role is hybrid onsite 3x per week. The ideal candidate will have experience working independently from templates, collaborating on timelines, tracking contract lifecycle. If you are immediately available for this long term contract role please apply TODAY directly to Jennifer.Cotton[at]RobertHalf[dotcom].</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Prepare commercial agreements using authorized templates and internal guidance to ensure documents are complete, accurate, and aligned with company expectations.</p><p>• Coordinate the full contract workflow from initial intake through execution, monitoring progress and keeping stakeholders informed of status changes.</p><p>• Maintain detailed and up-to-date contract information within the Conga platform, ensuring records are organized and easy to retrieve.</p><p>• Respond to clients and internal contacts regarding agreement status, missing items, and documentation needs in a timely and thorough manner.</p><p>• Identify exceptions or unusual terms and route them to the appropriate internal teams for review and resolution.</p><p>• Partner with legal and business stakeholders to support compliance with approved contracting practices and organizational policies.</p><p>• Track multiple active agreements at once, prioritizing deadlines and follow-up actions to keep work moving forward.</p><p>• Review contract documentation for completeness and consistency before final processing and execution.</p>
<p>We are looking for an experienced Sr. Payroll Specialist to support a non-profit organization in Los Angeles, California. This Long-term Contract position will lead day-to-day payroll activities, ensuring employees are paid correctly, on time, and in compliance with applicable regulations. The role also partners with HR, Finance, and benefits teams to strengthen reporting, resolve payroll issues, and improve payroll operations.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Oversee end-to-end payroll processing for a large employee population, ensuring each payroll cycle is completed accurately and on schedule.</p><p>• Verify payroll inputs such as earnings, deductions, incentive payments, and tax withholding details before final submission.</p><p>• Monitor adherence to federal, state, and local payroll requirements and apply updates to payroll practices as regulations change.</p><p>• Perform payroll account reconciliations and provide support for month-end and year-end financial close activities.</p><p>• Produce payroll-related reports for leadership, finance, compliance reviews, and audit requests.</p><p>• Investigate payroll variances, respond to employee inquiries, and resolve issues in a timely and thorough manner.</p><p>• Maintain complete and organized payroll records, supporting documentation, and audit-ready files.</p><p><br></p>
We are looking for an experienced Accounts Payable Manager to lead the assessment and modernization of a complex, high-volume payables operation in Solana Beach, California. This Long-term Contract opportunity will focus on improving efficiency, strengthening controls, and building a scalable automation approach across 19 entities. The consultant will partner with finance, operations, IT, and leadership teams to redesign workflows, recommend practical technology solutions, and support implementation of a more effective AP function.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Review the current accounts payable process across multiple entities and identify areas where automation can reduce manual effort and improve consistency.<br>• Analyze invoice intake, approval routing, vendor administration, payment activity, and reporting practices to uncover operational gaps and enhancement opportunities.<br>• Recommend and help deploy an accounts payable automation solution using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central capabilities and/or a compatible third-party platform.<br>• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to define the most effective long-term approach for payables processing, controls, and system support.<br>• Create clear future-state process documentation, including approval structures, internal controls, exception handling, and workflow design.<br>• Lead core project activities such as process mapping, business requirements gathering, testing coordination, and implementation support.<br>• Improve efficiency for both purchase order and non-purchase order invoice processing while reducing paper-based approvals and manual data entry.<br>• Support user training and change adoption efforts while establishing performance metrics that strengthen accuracy, timeliness, and scalability within AP.
<p>A growing healthcare organization in <strong>Vista</strong> is looking for an <strong>AP Manager</strong> to take ownership of its accounts payable function. This is a hands-on leadership role overseeing invoice processing, vendor relationships, payment cycles, reconciliations, and AP controls. The ideal candidate knows how to lead a team but isn't afraid to jump into the details when something needs to be investigated or resolved.</p><p><strong>Your responsibilities</strong></p><ul><li>Manage the company's full-cycle AP function</li><li>Supervise and mentor AP staff</li><li>Establish priorities and monitor daily invoice workflow</li><li>Review invoice coding and approval requirements</li><li>Oversee three-way matching and purchase order processes</li><li>Manage weekly payment runs</li><li>Review vendor statements and resolve discrepancies</li><li>Maintain vendor master data and controls</li><li>Monitor AP aging and outstanding invoices</li><li>Partner with Purchasing and department leaders</li><li>Investigate duplicate invoices and payment issues</li><li>Oversee month-end AP close and accruals</li><li>Assist with 1099 preparation and year-end activities</li><li>Develop AP policies and procedures</li><li>Track AP metrics and identify process improvements</li><li>Support internal and external audits</li></ul>
<p><strong>Job costs, subcontractors, vendors, retainage—you know AP is more complicated when every invoice is tied to a project.</strong></p><p>A growing construction company in <b>Solana Beach </b>is looking for an <strong>Accounts Payable Manager</strong> to lead its project-based AP operations. You'll work closely with Project Managers, Purchasing, Accounting, subcontractors, and vendors to ensure invoices are properly coded, approved, and paid. This role is ideal for someone who understands that construction AP requires strong attention to <strong>job costing, purchase orders, contracts, lien documentation, and payment deadlines</strong>.</p><p><strong>What you'll be responsible for</strong></p><ul><li>Oversee full-cycle AP for multiple construction projects</li><li>Lead and develop the AP team</li><li>Review subcontractor and vendor invoices</li><li>Ensure invoices are coded to the appropriate projects and cost categories</li><li>Oversee three-way matching between POs, receipts, and invoices</li><li>Monitor subcontractor documentation and approvals</li><li>Review vendor statements and resolve discrepancies</li><li>Manage payment schedules and cash requirements</li><li>Monitor retainage and project-related payables</li><li>Partner with Project Managers to resolve invoice issues</li><li>Review AP aging and identify outstanding liabilities</li><li>Lead month-end AP close and accrual processes</li><li>Assist with job-cost reporting</li><li>Maintain vendor records and payment controls</li><li>Establish and improve AP procedures</li><li>Prepare AP metrics and management reports</li><li>Support audits and year-end accounting activities</li></ul>