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Mar 11, 2026

SUPERVISOR I

  • State of California Office of the Controller
  • Hybrid
  • $7,172 - $8,910 monthly
Full time Government Management

Job Description

Under the general direction of the Supervisor II, Personnel and Payroll Operations Bureau (PPOB), the Supervisor I supervises and directs the Statewide Civil Service (CS) Payroll program which consists of professional, technical, and clerical staff. These programs are responsible for processing a variety of payments, adjustments, and employment history updates for CS/Exempt payrolls; ensuring that both employment history documentation and transactions processing are following all rules, policies procedures, bargaining unit contracts provisions, State and Federal laws; and responding to inquiries via a Contact Center and a centralized Division email inbox.


Duties Performed:
(Candidates must perform the following functions with or without reasonable accommodations.)

  • Plan, organize, supervise, and direct the activities of the statewide civil service payroll program to ensure conformance with goals, objectives, and policies and achieve ongoing operational/service requirements and commitments. Ensure processing of all payroll transactions within parameters set forth in Federal and State laws, control agency mandates, and executive orders.
  • Develop and maintain standardized methods for translating workload into budget criteria to use in SCO’s budgeting process, as well as annually projecting Personnel and Payroll Operations Bureau’s (PPOB)fiscal year budgetary needs.
  • Supervise and direct the work of subordinate staff that have responsibility for multiple statewide programs. Select, train, develop, and evaluate the performance of staff and take appropriate action.
  • Identify system/program problems, resulting impacts, and suggested interim solutions. Develop/revise internal/external policies related to system/program processing, new system/program capabilities, and overall improvement of customer service. Monitor and evaluate workload data. Analyze data and provide detailed reporting and projections to management on workload status.
  • Act as a liaison with State departments and campuses and other control agencies. Represent SCO at user group meetings, transaction Supervisor’s Forum, and other State conferences.
  • As a member of PPOB’s management team, assist in the development of Bureau policies and procedures. Act as the Section Supervisor II, in their absence.
State of California Office of the Controller
About State of California Office of the Controller

As the chief fiscal officer of California, the fourth largest economy in the world, the Controller’s office is responsible for the accountability and disbursement of the state’s financial resources. The Controller independently audits government agencies that spend state funds and administers the payroll system for state government employees and California State University employees. The Controller also safeguards many types of property until claimed by the rightful owners. The Controller serves on 70 boards and commissions with authority affecting policies ranging from land management, affordable housing, and alternative transportation to crime victim compensation and health and educational facilities. They are a member of numerous financing authorities, fiscal and financial oversight entities including the Franchise Tax Board and Board of Equalization. They also serve on the boards of the nation's two largest public pension funds. The      Controller is one of eight statewide constitutional officials who are elected every four years in California.

 

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