Workday Payroll & HCM Analyst

We are seeking a Senior Workday Payroll & HCM Analyst to serve as a strategic and hands-on systems partner across Payroll, Core HCM, Absence, Benefits, and Time Tracking. This role sits at the center of our Workday ecosystem, ensuring payroll accuracy, data integrity, and scalable system design across the employee lifecycle.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in Workday Payroll (US/Canada required; global integrations preferred), combined with strong Workday HCM and security knowledge. This individual understands how upstream transactions-such as hiring, job changes, compensation updates, benefits enrollment, and leave events-directly impact payroll calculations, integrations, reporting, and compliance outcomes.

This role blends architecture-level systems thinking with tactical execution. You will partner closely with Payroll, People & Places COEs, PDS, ESE, and other functional stakeholders to design, configure, optimize, and govern Workday solutions that protect payroll integrity and enhance operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Maintain deep expertise in the end-to-end payroll lifecycle within Workday, including US/Canada payroll and global payroll integrations (e.g., iiPay or similar vendors)
• Ensure upstream HCM data, business processes, and security configurations align with payroll requirements and compliance standards
• Proactively identify and mitigate payroll-impacting system risks across modules and integrations
• Serve as a functional escalation point for complex payroll-system issues requiring cross-module troubleshooting
• Maintain deep expertise in Workday Core HCM, business process framework, and security model (role-based, user-based, domain, and business process security)
• Evaluate how security configurations impact payroll visibility, data integrity, and reporting access
• Partner with stakeholders to ensure appropriate data governance and compliance controls across payroll-sensitive fields
• Design, configure, and optimize Workday business processes that impact payroll, including conditional to-do triggers, required step prompts and validations, streamlined notifications and inbox management
• Improve workflow efficiency to reduce manual payroll intervention and correction
• Ensure seamless interaction between Hire, Change Job, Absence, Benefits Enrollment, Compensation, and Payroll processes
• Drive best-practice alignment across HCM, Benefits, Talent, and PATT to improve data accuracy and system performance
• Maintain strong expertise in Workday security configuration (role-based, domain, and business process security)
• Evaluate security changes for downstream payroll and reporting impacts
• Provide guidance on required payroll-impacting data fields (e.g., legal name, personal identifiers, tax data, pay group alignment) to ensure compliance and accuracy
• Support governance standards that protect payroll-sensitive data integrity
• Reduce manual payroll corrections through improved upstream controls and automation
• Optimize Workday business processes that impact payroll through conditional to-do triggers, required step prompts, streamlined notifications, and inbox actions
• Develop and maintain advanced payroll reporting, including calculated fields, custom reports, and audit-focused reporting
• Understand and support Workday payroll integrations and upstream/downstream data flows
• Anticipate, troubleshoot, and resolve integration issues impacting payroll
• Partner with technical teams to ensure payroll considerations are included in system enhancements and project development
• Lead or support evaluation and implementation of Workday releases impacting Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking (PATT)
• Assess new feature functionality and determine business and payroll impact
• Drive ongoing tenant optimization efforts to improve scalability, automation, and user experience
• Partner with ESE on Workday Extend solutions that address payroll-impacting workflows or employee-facing applications
• Act as a trusted advisor to Payroll, HR, and People & Places COEs on Workday functionality and best practices
• Liaise with PDS, ESE, PPL, and other stakeholders to ensure payroll implications are considered in new initiatives
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable, payroll-aligned Workday solutions
• Support system health reviews and proactive risk assessments across modules

• 4+ years of advanced Workday experience in a techno-functional capacity
• Deep expertise in Workday Payroll (US/Canada required; global exposure preferred)
• Strong knowledge of Core HCM, Absence, Time Tracking, Benefits, and Compensation modules
• Experience configuring and optimizing Workday Business Process Framework (BPF)
• Solid understanding of Workday security configuration and governance
• Advanced Workday reporting experience (including calculated fields and complex reporting)
• Strong understanding of payroll data flows, integrations, and system dependencies
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex, cross-module system issues
• Excellent analytical, critical thinking, and stakeholder management skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting international payroll integrations
• Workday certifications in Payroll, HCM, Security, or related modules
• Experience in a global, matrixed enterprise environment
• Experience supporting Workday releases and tenant optimization initiatives
• Familiarity with Equity and Retirement plan administration (e.g., stock programs, deferred compensation, and 401(k)/RRSP), including understanding of payroll taxation, deductions, compliance reporting, and integration impacts across Compensation, Benefits, and Payroll
• Familiarity with Workday Extend

Le candidat idéal apporte une expertise approfondie de Workday Payroll (expérience aux États-Unis et au Canada requise ; intégrations internationales appréciées), associée à de solides connaissances de Workday HCM et de la sécurité. Cette personne comprend comment les transactions en amont - telles que le recrutement, les changements de poste, les mises à jour de rémunération, l’adhésion aux avantages sociaux et les événements liés aux congés - ont un impact direct sur les calculs de paie, les intégrations, le reporting et la conformité.

Ce poste allie une réflexion systémique au niveau de l’architecture à une exécution tactique. Vous travaillerez en étroite collaboration avec les centres d’excellence (COE) Paie, People & Places, PDS, ESE et d’autres parties prenantes fonctionnelles pour concevoir, configurer, optimiser et gouverner les solutions Workday qui protègent l’intégrité de la paie et améliorent l’efficacité opérationnelle.