Senior Workday Payroll Lead - Hybrid & Compliance

Seattle Office of City Finance; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 77,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

The Seattle Office of City Finance seeks a Senior Management Analyst-Payroll to lead Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence configurations. You will govern integrations, perform performance evaluations, and ensure compliant compensation for City employees.

You will translate labor contracts into scalable configurations, guide testing, and support centralized as well as decentralized payroll teams. Hybrid work and collaboration with HR, ITD, and payroll staff are expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3 years advanced experience supporting or configuring Workday Payroll, Time Tracking or Absence.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex analysis, testing, or configuration work in a large organization.
• Experience interpreting labor or complex contract pay impacting rules, pay policies, or compliance requirements.
• Robust analytical and problem‑solving skills using reporting tools or data analysis.
• Experience coordinating cross functional work in IT, HR, payroll, or financial environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic system configuration, governance, and performance evaluations for Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, Absence, and Compensation, ensuring alignment with policy, labor standards, and compliance requirements.
• Translate complex labor contract requirements into scalable, compliant system configurations while overseeing business processes, integrations, retro processing, audit controls, and payroll‑related EIB data accuracy.
• Direct requirements gathering, prototyping, analytics‑driven performance reviews, and testing governance for Workday configuration updates, releases, and weekly service changes to enhance usability, reliability, and efficiency.
• Conduct root‑cause analysis and apply advanced reporting and analytics to detect anomalies, identify trends, support audits, and drive system improvements across payroll and HCM functions.
• Lead cross‑functional solution design, stakeholder alignment, and citywide readiness efforts through coordination with HR, Payroll, Information Technology (ITD), Workday Subject Matter Expert (SMEs), developers, reporting analysts, and privacy/security teams.
• Provide clear communication, operational continuity, and issue resolution for decentralized departmental payroll teams while maintaining documentation standards and serving as backup support for payroll staff and leadership.

Skills

Analytical skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business or related field

Tools

Workday

Workday Time Tracking

Workday Absence

Job description

The Seattle Office of City Finance seeks a Senior Management Analyst-Payroll to lead Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence configurations. You will govern integrations, perform performance evaluations, and ensure compliant compensation for City employees.

You will translate labor contracts into scalable configurations, guide testing, and support centralized as well as decentralized payroll teams. Hybrid work and collaboration with HR, ITD, and payroll staff are expected.