Hybrid Workday Payroll Analyst – Drive Payroll Excellence

Big Red Recruitment; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits

Job summary

Big Red Recruitment is seeking an experienced Workday Systems Analyst to be the SME for Workday Payroll. You will join a collaborative HR Systems team and lead on payroll configuration, improvements, release management and governance to ensure accurate and compliant payroll processing.

You will work with internal teams and external partners to deliver scalable Workday solutions, manage incidents, testing, UAT and documentation, while ensuring GDPR compliance and smooth payroll operations.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years' experience configuring or supporting Workday modules.
• Strong understanding of Payroll, Time & Absence, Compensation and Benefits within Workday.
• Experience configuring Workday business processes and supporting payroll-related system changes.
• Good understanding of payroll legislation, governance and payroll controls.
• Experience managing Workday releases, testing, UAT and defect resolution.
• Experience gathering requirements, analysing business processes and delivering system improvements.

Responsibilities

• Configure, maintain and enhance Workday Payroll functionality to meet business requirements.
• Support payroll processes across Time & Absence, Compensation and Benefits, ensuring all module dependencies are understood and managed.
• Analyse business requirements and translate these into scalable Workday solutions.
• Manage payroll-related incidents, defects and enhancement requests, prioritising work based on business impact.
• Lead testing activities including regression testing, UAT and implementation of system changes.
• Support Workday's release cycle by assessing new functionality, coordinating testing and recommending improvements.
• Produce and maintain Workday payroll reports, reconciliations and management information.
• Ensure payroll data integrity, governance and compliance with GDPR and payroll legislation.
• Create and maintain system documentation, test scripts and process guides.

Skills

Workday Payroll

Workday configuration

UAT testing

Data governance

Requirements gathering

Tools

Workday

Job description

Big Red Recruitment is seeking an experienced Workday Systems Analyst to be the SME for Workday Payroll. You will join a collaborative HR Systems team and lead on payroll configuration, improvements, release management and governance to ensure accurate and compliant payroll processing.

You will work with internal teams and external partners to deliver scalable Workday solutions, manage incidents, testing, UAT and documentation, while ensuring GDPR compliance and smooth payroll operations.