Senior Payroll IT Analyst - Solutions & Delivery

General Motors; Warren (MI); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Level 7 Payroll IT Analyst to analyze, enhance, and support payroll technology solutions, partnering with Payroll, HR, Finance, compliance, product teams, vendors, and delivery leads. You will translate business needs into system requirements, design solutions, and drive improvements across payroll applications and integrations.

This role requires strong functional and technical analysis, testing coordination, and release readiness oversight to ensure accurate, timely

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in a related field.
• Significant experience supporting payroll systems, enterprise HR technology, or related business applications.
• Strong experience in business and systems analysis, requirements gathering, process mapping, and solution documentation.
• Experience supporting system enhancements, production support, defect triage, testing, and release activities.
• Understanding of payroll business processes, controls, data dependencies, and compliance-sensitive workflows.
• Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders, including business teams, technical teams, vendors, and project leaders.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and issue-resolution skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Payroll, HR, Finance, and IT stakeholders to gather and document business requirements for payroll systems, processes, integrations, and reporting.
• Lead solution analysis for payroll enhancements, regulatory changes, defects, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Translate business requirements into functional specs, process flows, user stories, test scenarios, and implementation plans.
• Support end-to-end delivery of payroll system changes, including design reviews, testing coordination, release readiness, and production validation.
• Analyze impacts across HR, timekeeping, benefits, finance, and data integration processes.
• Troubleshoot complex payroll system issues and coordinate resolution with internal teams, MSPs, and vendors.
• Support root cause analysis for production incidents and durable fixes.
• Coordinate and execute testing activities for payroll changes.
• Ensure payroll solutions align with internal controls, audit requirements, security, and compliance.
• Maintain documentation for requirements, configurations, support procedures, and release artifacts.
• Identify opportunities to simplify payroll processes and improve data quality.
• Serve as a point of contact for payroll technology capabilities and delivery planning.
• Provide mentoring to junior analysts and project team members.

Skills

Payroll systems

Business analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Regulatory compliance

Root cause analysis

Testing & release management

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, HR, Finance

Tools

Workday Payroll

ADP

UKG/Kronos

SAP Payroll

DataStage

Spark

Python

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Level 7 Payroll IT Analyst to analyze, enhance, and support payroll technology solutions, partnering with Payroll, HR, Finance, compliance, product teams, vendors, and delivery leads. You will translate business needs into system requirements, design solutions, and drive improvements across payroll applications and integrations.

This role requires strong functional and technical analysis, testing coordination, and release readiness oversight to ensure accurate, timely