Sr. Workday Payroll Systems Analyst

Overview

Jackson Healthcare and our family of companies provide healthcare systems, hospitals and medical facilities of all sizes with the skilled and specialized labor and technologies they need to deliver high quality patient care and achieve the best possible outcomes. Headquartered in metro Atlanta, we’re powered by more than 2,600 associates and over 20,000 clinician providers covering all 50 U.S. states. Our mission is to improve the delivery of patient care and the lives of everyone we touch.

This includes the patients, clinicians and healthcare executives we work with through our companies every day, as well as our communities, the nonprofit organizations we support and each associate who is part of our family. We’re always looking to add new talent to our teams. We value diverse professionals at all levels and across multiple disciplines and areas of expertise, who have strong leadership skills, align with our culture, and are committed to excellence.

The Sr. Workday Payroll Systems Analyst is a senior-level Workday Payroll professional responsible for leading multiple Workday Payroll implementations into an established Workday environment, onboarding and transitioning companies across a multi-company payroll structure. This role partners directly with the Senior Director, Payroll, and is accountable for hands-on solution design, configuration, data conversion, testing, and go-live execution within the current Workday tenant across successive implementation efforts.

The Sr. Workday Payroll Systems Analyst applies deep payroll knowledge, compliance expertise, and operational judgment to implementation decisions, ensuring each company’s payroll requirements are integrated in a sustainable, accurate manner that aligns with existing Workday payroll design standards. This individual serves as a senior resource across payroll systems, providing guidance to payroll operations staff and contributing to the development of team capabilities.

• Workday Payroll Implementation Leadership & Configuration – 40%:
  Lead end-to-end Workday Payroll implementations, including discovery, design, configuration, testing, and go-live support for multiple companies transitioning from UKG into an established Workday environment. Conduct current-state assessments of legacy UKG payroll processes, configurations, and data, and review existing Workday Payroll tenant configuration to align new requirements with established design standards. Configure earnings, deductions, taxes, balances, retro calculations, and year-end processing;
  
  lead payroll-owned Workday Timekeeping implementation; manage data extraction, transformation, loading (EIBs), pre-/post-load data integrity checks, and reconciliations. Lead unit, integration, and parallel payroll testing with reconciliation and variance analysis; address discrepancies with stakeholders. Own post-go-live stabilization and ongoing optimization including hyper-care triage and root cause analysis.
• Payroll Operations & Compliance – 25%:
  Partner with the Senior Director, Payroll to identify process improvements and configuration optimization across the Workday tenant. Contribute to payroll calendar planning, compliance monitoring, and year-end readiness. Maintain knowledge of federal, state, and local payroll tax laws, FLSA, wage garnishment, and benefits-related compliance, applying them to system design and operations. Lead cross-functional collaboration with Payroll, Benefits, HRIS, Finance, and IT teams.
  
  Communicate with employees, managers, HR, Benefits, and stakeholders to research and resolve payroll inquiries with accuracy and professionalism.
• Team Development & Knowledge Management – 10%:
  Serve as a subject matter expert on Workday Payroll configuration and design standards; mentor junior payroll systems staff; maintain documentation standards, including design specifications, test plans, processing guides, and lessons-learned summaries with strict data confidentiality. Align duties with Corporate Values and Culture:
  Others First | Wisdom | Growth.
• Continuous Improvement – 25%:
  Identify opportunities to streamline payroll processes through Workday…