Workday Payroll & Time Tracking Analyst

Group 1 Automotive, Inc.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Group 1 Automotive, Inc. is seeking an HRIS Analyst – Payroll, Absence & Time Tracking (PATT) to configure and support Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence.

You will partner with Payroll, HR, Benefits, and Finance to translate business requirements into scalable Workday solutions. The role focuses on configuring payroll components, time-entry rules, and absence plans, while troubleshooting issues and supporting testing, releases, and production deployments.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Workday Payroll, Absence and Time Entry configuration experience.
• Understanding of payroll concepts; payroll processing experience is a plus.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to translate business requirements into effective system solutions.
• Strong collaboration with technical and functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Configure and maintain payroll-related system components including earnings, deductions, calculations, eligibility rules, and related business processes.
• Configure and maintain Time Tracking functionality including time calculations, time entry rules, validations, eligibility, overtime, premium pay, and related business processes.
• Configure and maintain Absence functionality including time-off plans, accruals, eligibility rules, carryover rules, validations, and related calculations.
• Troubleshoot Workday configuration, calculation, data, and processing issues impacting payroll, time, and absence.
• Partner with Payroll and other functional stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate approved requirements into Workday solutions.
• Evaluate requested system changes and recommend configuration approaches based on Workday capabilities and established standards.
• Identify upstream and downstream impacts of proposed configuration changes.
• Develop test scenarios and execute unit, regression, and system testing for configuration changes.
• Coordinate and support User Acceptance Testing with functional stakeholders.
• Evaluate Workday releases for Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence functionality.
• Recommend and implement applicable release features and enhancements.
• Validate production changes following deployment.

Skills

Workday experience

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Tools

Workday

Job description

Group 1 Automotive, Inc. is seeking an HRIS Analyst – Payroll, Absence & Time Tracking (PATT) to configure and support Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence.

You will partner with Payroll, HR, Benefits, and Finance to translate business requirements into scalable Workday solutions. The role focuses on configuring payroll components, time-entry rules, and absence plans, while troubleshooting issues and supporting testing, releases, and production deployments.