Global Payroll Systems Analyst

Point72; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully-paid health care benefits

Parental and family leave

Mental and physical wellness programs

Volunteer opportunities

Non-profit matching gift program

Employee affinity groups support

Tuition assistance

401(k) with employer match

Job summary

Point72 seeks a seasoned payroll technology professional to lead multinational payroll systems initiatives within its Technology team. You will drive end-to-end payroll process improvements, configure and test Workday-based solutions, and coordinate with global partners to ensure compliant, timely payroll execution.

The role emphasizes strong stakeholder management, data privacy, and cross-regional collaboration to deliver resilient payroll platforms and controls.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of experience in payroll systems, HR systems, or payroll operations within a multinational organization.
• Hands-on experience with Workday payroll platform including business processes, security roles, worker data, payroll inputs, and payroll results.
• Experience supporting outsourced payroll processing through providers such as CloudPay, including input templates, validations, payroll previews, variance analysis, approvals, statutory outputs, banking files, and payslips.
• Strong understanding of multi-country payroll processes, including gross-to-net calculations, taxes, benefits, pensions, garnishments, retro pay, final pay, and year-end processing.
• Ability to manage and troubleshoot integrations using payroll data files, secure file transfers, application interfaces, field mapping, effective dating, error handling, and reconciliation controls.
• Working knowledge of payroll compliance and controls, including data privacy, approval controls, segregation of duties, audit trails, statutory deadlines, and secure data handling.
• Experience supporting system changes through requirements gathering, functional specifications, configuration support, test scripts, user acceptance testing, release management, and post-production support.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to explain technical issues clearly and manage priorities across regions and time zones.
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards.

Responsibilities

• Support the technology for global payroll across countries supported by our core and third-party payroll platforms, helping ensure accurate and timely payroll execution.
• Analyze end-to-end payroll processes and translate business needs into clear system requirements, configuration updates, integration changes, and control enhancements.
• Support payroll cycles by triaging production issues, resolving data defects, validating results, and coordinating urgent fixes before payroll close.
• Monitor and troubleshoot integrations across payroll, human resources, finance, banking, benefits, equity, time, and tax-related systems.
• Partner with global payroll teams to manage calendars, cutoffs, approvals, funding timelines, bank files, payslips, reporting, and reconciliations.
• Configure, test, and maintain payroll-related system functionality, including pay groups, pay components, deductions, payroll inputs, accounting, and payslip setup.
• Lead testing for releases, country rollouts, statutory updates, and process improvements, including test scripts, defect tracking, regression testing, and go-live readiness.
• Reconcile payroll outputs across source and target systems, identify variances, and strengthen audit controls for sensitive employee and banking data.
• Maintain documentation for payroll processes, integrations, data mappings, runbooks, test evidence, issue logs, and country-specific operating procedures.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to deliver resilient payroll systems.

Skills

Payroll systems

HR systems

Workday experience

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Tools

CloudPay

Job description

Point72 seeks a seasoned payroll technology professional to lead multinational payroll systems initiatives within its Technology team. You will drive end-to-end payroll process improvements, configure and test Workday-based solutions, and coordinate with global partners to ensure compliant, timely payroll execution.

The role emphasizes strong stakeholder management, data privacy, and cross-regional collaboration to deliver resilient payroll platforms and controls.