Global Payroll Systems Analyst

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

Benefits offered by this job

Full health care benefits

Parental and family leave

Mental and physical wellness programs

Volunteer opportunities

Non-profit matching gifts

Job summary

Point72’s Technology team is reimagining the firm’s IT infrastructure with a focus on AI and cloud-native solutions. The payroll systems specialist will support global payroll for multiple countries, integrating Workday and CloudPay platforms, and drive end-to-end process improvements.

You will triage production issues, collaborate with regional teams, and ensure accurate, compliant payroll processing while maintaining strong audit trails.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in payroll systems, HR systems, or payroll operations within a multinational organization
• Hands-on experience with Workday payroll module: business processes, security roles, worker data
• 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

Global payroll

Payroll systems

Workday

CloudPay

Data analysis

Tools

Workday

CloudPay

Job description

Point72’s Technology team is reimagining the firm’s IT infrastructure with a focus on AI and cloud-native solutions. The payroll systems specialist will support global payroll for multiple countries, integrating Workday and CloudPay platforms, and drive end-to-end process improvements.

You will triage production issues, collaborate with regional teams, and ensure accurate, compliant payroll processing while maintaining strong audit trails.