Senior Workday Payroll Consultant: Global Compliance

Zoho; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Fyerx is seeking an experienced Workday Payroll Consultant to design, configure, and optimize our global payroll operations. The ideal candidate will bridge accounting, regional tax mandates, and compensation data into precise, automated payroll calculation workflows.

The role emphasizes configuring core Workday Payroll components, building tax rules, mapping runs to the GL, and leading biannual upgrade evaluations to prevent calculation issues across jurisdictions.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of enterprise payroll engine technology experience, with 4+ dedicated years actively designing, building, and maintaining Workday Payroll modules.

Responsibilities

• Configure and manage core Workday Payroll components, including earning and deduction codes, calculation rules, payroll runs, and deduction frequencies.
• Design and maintain tax configuration structures for multi-state, federal, or localized statutory tax authorities and compliance profiles.
• Construct complex payroll accounting tables, mapping payroll run transactions to the general ledger and resolving costing balance anomalies.
• Build advanced business process rules for payroll routing, setting up conditional validation checks for processing errors and variances.
• Govern compliance and settlement runs, including bank integration lines for direct deposit, EFT, and check printing structures.
• Support tax filing and year-end procedures, running balance adjustments and troubleshooting quarter-end reporting anomalies.
• Lead upgrade evaluation runs for biannual platform releases with regression testing in payroll sandboxes.

Skills

Workday Payroll

Payroll configuration

Tax/compliance

Job description

Fyerx is seeking an experienced Workday Payroll Consultant to design, configure, and optimize our global payroll operations. The ideal candidate will bridge accounting, regional tax mandates, and compensation data into precise, automated payroll calculation workflows.

The role emphasizes configuring core Workday Payroll components, building tax rules, mapping runs to the GL, and leading biannual upgrade evaluations to prevent calculation issues across jurisdictions.