Workday Payroll Consultant (US/Global)

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

• Relevant Experience Required: 4+ years of dedicated implementation and configuration experience within Workday Payroll
• Mandatory Certification: Workday Certified Payroll (US, Canada, or Global Payroll)

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Workday Payroll Consultant to design, configure, and optimize our global enterprise payroll operations. The ideal candidate will bridge complex corporate accounting, regional tax mandates, and compensation data into precise, automated, and secure cloud calculation pipelines.

Key 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, setting up automated multi-state, federal, or localized statutory tax authorities and compliance profiles.
• Construct complex payroll accounting tables, mapping payroll run transactions directly to the general ledger (GL) and resolving costing balance anomalies.
• Build advanced business process (BP) rules for payroll routing, configuring conditional validation checks to catch processing errors, off-cycle events, and gross-to-net variances.
• Govern compliance and settlement runs, setting up bank integration lines for direct deposit, electronic fund transfers (EFT), positive pay, and processing check printing structures.
• Support tax filing and year-end procedures, running balance adjustments, processing statutory adjustments (e.g., W-2, T4 summaries), and troubleshooting quarter-end reporting anomalies.
• Lead upgrade evaluation runs for biannual platform releases, executing rigorous regression test suites inside payroll sandboxes to prevent calculation failures.

Requirements

• 5 to 8 years of enterprise payroll engine technology experience, with 4+ dedicated years actively designing, building, and maintaining Workday Payroll modules.
• Strong technical mastery of Workday Payroll calculation engine logic, cumulative tracking fields, processing configurations, and calculated fields.
• Deep structural understanding of gross-to-net calculation pipelines, tax reciprocity matrices, pre/post-tax deduction limits, and compliance frameworks.
• Mandatory certification: Workday Certified Payroll (US, Canada, or Global Payroll).

Preferred Qualifications

• Workday Certified Core HCM certification.
• Prior consulting or enterprise experience managing multi-entity payroll transitions or deploying Workday alongside external international payroll providers via Cloud Connect for Third-Party Payroll (CCPP).