Systems Analyst, Workday Payroll

Point72; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully-paid health care benefits

Parental and family leave

Mental and physical wellness programs

Volunteer opportunities

Non-profit matching gift program

Employee affinity groups support

Tuition assistance

401(k) with employer match

Job summary

Point72 seeks a seasoned payroll technology professional to lead multinational payroll systems initiatives within its Technology team. You will drive end-to-end payroll process improvements, configure and test Workday-based solutions, and coordinate with global partners to ensure compliant, timely payroll execution.

The role emphasizes strong stakeholder management, data privacy, and cross-regional collaboration to deliver resilient payroll platforms and controls.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of experience in payroll systems, HR systems, or payroll operations within a multinational organization.
• Hands-on experience with Workday payroll platform including business processes, security roles, worker data, payroll inputs, and payroll results.
• Experience supporting outsourced payroll processing through providers such as CloudPay, including input templates, validations, payroll previews, variance analysis, approvals, statutory outputs, banking files, and payslips.
• Strong understanding of multi-country payroll processes, including gross-to-net calculations, taxes, benefits, pensions, garnishments, retro pay, final pay, and year-end processing.
• Ability to manage and troubleshoot integrations using payroll data files, secure file transfers, application interfaces, field mapping, effective dating, error handling, and reconciliation controls.
• Working knowledge of payroll compliance and controls, including data privacy, approval controls, segregation of duties, audit trails, statutory deadlines, and secure data handling.
• Experience supporting system changes through requirements gathering, functional specifications, configuration support, test scripts, user acceptance testing, release management, and post-production support.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to explain technical issues clearly and manage priorities across regions and time zones.
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards.

Responsibilities

• Support the technology for global payroll across countries supported by our core and third-party payroll platforms, helping ensure accurate and timely payroll execution.
• Analyze end-to-end payroll processes and translate business needs into clear system requirements, configuration updates, integration changes, and control enhancements.
• Support payroll cycles by triaging production issues, resolving data defects, validating results, and coordinating urgent fixes before payroll close.
• Monitor and troubleshoot integrations across payroll, human resources, finance, banking, benefits, equity, time, and tax-related systems.
• Partner with global payroll teams to manage calendars, cutoffs, approvals, funding timelines, bank files, payslips, reporting, and reconciliations.
• Configure, test, and maintain payroll-related system functionality, including pay groups, pay components, deductions, payroll inputs, accounting, and payslip setup.
• Lead testing for releases, country rollouts, statutory updates, and process improvements, including test scripts, defect tracking, regression testing, and go-live readiness.
• Reconcile payroll outputs across source and target systems, identify variances, and strengthen audit controls for sensitive employee and banking data.
• Maintain documentation for payroll processes, integrations, data mappings, runbooks, test evidence, issue logs, and country-specific operating procedures.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to deliver resilient payroll systems.

Skills

Payroll systems

HR systems

Workday experience

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Tools

CloudPay

Job description

A Career with Point72's Technology Team

As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology team is constantly evolving our firm's IT infrastructure and engineering capabilities, positioning us at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We're a team of experts who experiment and work to discover new ways to harness open-source solutions, modern cloud architectures, and sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions, while embracing enterprise agile methodologies. Our commitment to building and innovating in the AI space provides the framework intended to drive smarter decision making and enhance how we build and operate our platforms and applications.

As a member of Point72's Technology team, we encourage and support your professional development from day one helping you advance your technical skills, contribute innovative ideas, and satisfy your own intellectual curiosity all while delivering real business impact for our multi-billion-dollar global business.

What you'll do

• Support the technology for global payroll across countries supported by our core and third-party payroll platforms, helping ensure accurate and timely payroll execution
• Analyze end-to-end payroll processes and translate business needs into clear system requirements, configuration updates, integration changes, and control enhancements
• Support payroll cycles by triaging production issues, resolving data defects, validating results, and coordinating urgent fixes before payroll close
• Monitor and troubleshoot integrations across payroll, human resources, finance, banking, benefits, equity, time, and tax-related systems
• Partner with global payroll teams to manage calendars, cutoffs, approvals, funding timelines, bank files, payslips, reporting, and reconciliations
• Configure, test, and maintain payroll-related system functionality, including pay groups, pay components, deductions, payroll inputs, accounting, and payslip setup
• Lead testing for releases, country rollouts, statutory updates, and process improvements, including test scripts, defect tracking, regression testing, and go-live readiness
• Reconcile payroll outputs across source and target systems, identify variances, and strengthen audit controls for sensitive employee and banking data
• Maintain documentation for payroll processes, integrations, data mappings, runbooks, test evidence, issue logs, and country-specific operating procedures
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to deliver resilient payroll systems

What's Required

• At least 7 years of experience in payroll systems, human resources systems, or payroll operations within a multinational organization
• Hands-on experience with human capital management and payroll platforms such as Workday, including business processes, security roles, worker data, payroll inputs, and payroll results
• Experience supporting outsourced payroll processing through providers such as CloudPay, including input templates, validations, payroll previews, variance analysis, approvals, statutory outputs, banking files, and payslips
• Strong understanding of multi-country payroll processes, including gross-to-net calculations, taxes, benefits, pensions, garnishments, retro pay, final pay, and year-end processing
• Ability to manage and troubleshoot integrations using payroll data files, secure file transfers, application interfaces, field mapping, effective dating, error handling, and reconciliation controls
• Working knowledge of payroll compliance and controls, including data privacy, approval controls, segregation of duties, audit trails, statutory deadlines, and secure data handling
• Experience supporting system changes through requirements gathering, functional specifications, configuration support, test scripts, user acceptance testing, release management, and post-production support
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to explain technical issues clearly and manage priorities across regions and time zones
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards

We take care of our people

We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. When you work here, we provide:

• Fully-paid health care benefits
• Generous parental and family leave policies
• Mental and physical wellness programs
• Volunteer opportunities
• Non-profit matching gift program
• Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, minorities and the LGBT+ community
• Tuition assistance
• A 401(k) savings program with an employer match and more

About Point72

Point72 Asset Management is a global firm led by Steven Cohen that invests in multiple asset classes and strategies worldwide. Resting on more than a quarter-century of investing experience, we seek to be the industry's premier asset manager through delivering superior risk-adjusted returns, adhering to the highest ethical standards, and offering the greatest opportunities to the industry's brightest talent. We're inventing the future of finance by revolutionizing how we develop our people and how we use data to shape our thinking. For more information, visit www.Point72.com/working-here

The annual base salary range for this role is $150,000-$225,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.