Payroll Analyst

Synergy Staffing; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Synergy Staffing is seeking a Workday Payroll Systems Analyst to provide payroll-side functional and technical support for the Workday payroll module. You will configure earnings, deductions, and payroll calculations while diagnosing complex issues and ensuring timely, compliant processing.

Collaborate with HRIS, IT, Payroll, Benefits, Finance, and external vendors to design, test, and implement payroll solutions.

Qualifications

• 1–4 years of payroll, HRIS, payroll systems, or Workday Payroll experience.
• Hands-on Workday Payroll module experience is preferred.
• Experience supporting Workday Payroll in a functional, analytical, or technical capacity.
• Experience with U.S. and Canada payroll environments, or direct U.S. payroll experience with Canada support.
• Strong understanding of payroll concepts: earnings, deductions, taxes, garnishments, retro pay, direct deposits, off-cycle payrolls.
• Ability to diagnose and correct payroll-impacting issues in real time during processing cycles.
• Experience validating payroll results, discrepancies, and payroll audits.
• Strong Excel skills and data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Serve as payroll-side functional and technical support for the Workday payroll module.
• Support Workday Payroll configuration related to earnings, deductions, pay components, and payroll calculations.
• Analyze complex Workday Payroll issues and identify root causes.
• Diagnose and correct payroll-impacting issues in real time during payroll cycles.
• Partner with HRIS, IT, Payroll, Benefits, Finance, Accounting, and vendors to implement solutions.
• Build and validate Workday payroll reports, dashboards, and ad hoc data outputs.
• Support Workday EIBs, data loads, mass updates, and related validation.
• Translate payroll requirements into system requirements, test scripts, and process documentation.
• Identify opportunities to improve automation and payroll accuracy.
• Maintain documentation for payroll configuration and processes.

Job description

Job Description

Job Description

Workday Payroll Systems Analysis and Technical Support

• Serve as a payroll-side functional and technical support for the Workday payroll module.


• Support Workday Payroll configuration related to earnings, deductions, pay components, pay groups, payroll inputs, payroll calculations, retro pay, tax setup, garnishments, direct deposit, and payroll business processes.


• Analyze complex Workday Payroll issues and identify root causes related to configuration, data, integrations, business processes, upstream HR data, time inputs, absence data, benefit deductions, tax elections, or payroll calculations.


• Diagnose and help correct payroll-impacting issues in real time during active payroll processing cycles, including urgent issues that could affect payroll accuracy, timeliness, or compliance.


• Partner with HRIS, IT, Payroll, Benefits, HR Operations, Finance, Accounting, and external vendors to design, test, and implement payroll system solutions.


• Build, maintain, and validate Workday payroll reports, audit reports, dashboards, exception reports, calculated fields, and ad hoc payroll data outputs.


• Support Workday EIBs, payroll data loads, mass updates, and related validation activities.


• Support payroll-related integrations, vendor files, interface monitoring, error resolution, and data reconciliation.


• Participate in Workday release management, including impact assessment, regression testing, UAT, configuration testing, and post-release validation.


• Support adjacent Workday modules that impact payroll, including Time Tracking, Absence, Benefits, Core HCM, Compensation, and Finance/Accounting integrations.


• Translate payroll requirements into system requirements, test scripts, reporting needs, control points, and process documentation.


• Identify opportunities to improve automation, reduce manual payroll intervention, strengthen controls, improve reporting, and increase payroll accuracy.


• Maintain documentation for payroll configuration, system processes, testing results, issue resolution, controls, and standard operating procedures.


• Support payroll-related projects, including acquisitions, new entity setup, new state/province setup, pay group changes, policy updates, payroll process redesign, and Workday enhancements.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

• 1-4 years of combined payroll, HRIS, payroll systems, or Workday Payroll experience.


• Hands-on Workday Payroll module experience is peferred


• Experience supporting Workday Payroll in a functional, analytical, or technical capacity.


• Experience with U.S. and Canada payroll environments, or direct U.S. payroll experience with strong ability to support Canada payroll requirements.


• Strong understanding of payroll concepts, including earnings, deductions, taxes, garnishments, retro pay, benefit deductions, direct deposits, off-cycle payrolls, and termination pay.


• Ability to diagnose and correct payroll-impacting issues in real time during payroll processing cycles.


• Experience analyzing payroll results, researching payroll discrepancies, validating gross-to-net calculations, and supporting payroll audits.


• Experience creating, running, validating, or maintaining Workday payroll reports or payroll audit reports.


• Strong Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, formulas, reconciliations, and large data analysis.


• Ability to troubleshoot payroll system issues and distinguish between configuration issues, data issues, integration issues, upstream HR data issues, and processing issues.


• Strong analytical, documentation, communication, and problem-solving skills.


• Ability to work independently as a technical individual contributor while partnering cross-functionally with Payroll, HRIS, HR, Benefits, Finance, Accounting, IT, and vendors.


• High attention to detail and ability to maintain confidentiality with sensitive employee and payroll data.