Human Resources

Workday Payroll Lead

Aptara, Inc.United States🇺🇸United States

Why this role stands out

This hybrid Workday Payroll Lead role offers an exciting opportunity to significantly impact a major implementation, leveraging your expertise in payroll, timekeeping, and absence management. You'll thrive in this position if you enjoy hands-on configuration, testing, and coaching within a collaborative environment. Apply now to shape the future of payroll operations.

Quick overview

SeniorityMid Senior

Work modeHybrid

LocationUnited States

Stakeholder ManagementWorkdayHRISPayroll

Job description

A large multi-location organization needs a hands-on Workday Payroll & Timekeeping SME for an implementation currently underway. You'll partner with Payroll, HRIS, and the SI team to configure, test, and deploy Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence — through go-live and stabilization.

What you'll do:

Serve as the Workday Payroll/Timekeeping SME — design, configure, and validate Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence
Advise on earnings, deductions, taxes, accruals, timekeeping rules, and union pay rules
Lead unit, SIT, UAT, end-to-end, and parallel payroll testing; reconcile against legacy systems
Troubleshoot config gaps with the implementation partner and drive resolutions
Coach internal payroll staff new to Workday; support go-live readiness and post-go-live stabilization

What you need:

5+ years Workday Payroll experience with at least one full-cycle implementation (design through go-live)
Deep hands-on knowledge of Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence Management
Payroll reconciliation and parallel testing experience
Strong payroll operations/compliance knowledge; able to translate business requirements into Workday config
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills