Senior Workday Payroll Analyst — Real-Time Troubleshooter

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Washington; On-site; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional development

Generous PTO

401k with matching

Health coverage

Parental leave

Commuter benefits

Job summary

THE TEAM in the United States is seeking a skilled Workday Payroll specialist to support, maintain, and optimize the Workday Payroll module in a high-volume US/Canada environment.

You will diagnose issues in real time, configure earnings/deductions, and build comprehensive payroll reports while collaborating with HRIS, HR, Benefits, Finance, and IT teams to ensure accuracy and compliance.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of combined payroll, HRIS, payroll systems or Workday Payroll experience.
• Hands-on Workday Payroll module experience is required.
• 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 requirements.
• Experience supporting payroll for exempt and non-exempt populations.
• Experience working in a high-volume payroll environment.
• Strong Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, formulas, reconciliations and large data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the payroll-side functional and technical subject matter expert for the Workday Payroll module.
• Support Workday Payroll configuration relating to earnings, deductions, pay components, pay groups, payroll inputs, payroll calculations, retro pay, tax setup, garnishments, direct deposit and payroll business processes.
• Analyse complex Workday Payroll issues to identify root causes across configuration, data, integrations, business processes, upstream HR data, time inputs, absence data, benefit deductions, tax elections and payroll calculations.
• Diagnose and correct payroll-impacting issues in real time during active payroll cycles, including urgent issues affecting accuracy, timeliness or compliance.
• Build, maintain and validate Workday payroll reports, audit reports, dashboards, exception reports, calculated fields and ad hoc payroll data outputs.
• Support EIBs, payroll data loads and mass updates.
• 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.

Skills

Workday Payroll

Payroll troubleshooting

Payroll data integrity

Analytical thinking

Real-time issue resolution

Cross-functional collaboration

Excel proficiency

Job description

THE TEAM in the United States is seeking a skilled Workday Payroll specialist to support, maintain, and optimize the Workday Payroll module in a high-volume US/Canada environment.

You will diagnose issues in real time, configure earnings/deductions, and build comprehensive payroll reports while collaborating with HRIS, HR, Benefits, Finance, and IT teams to ensure accuracy and compliance.