HRIS Payroll Analyst

Verra Mobility is a global leader in smart mobility. We develop technology-enabled solutions that help the world move safely and easily. We are fostering the development of safe cities, working with police departments and municipalities to install over 4,000 red-light, speed, and school bus stop arm safety cameras across North America. We are also creating smart roadways, serving the world's largest commercial fleets and rental car companies to manage tolling transactions and violations for over 8.5 million vehicles.

And we are a leading provider of connected systems, processing nearly 165 million transactions each year across 50+ individual tolling authorities.

Verra Mobility Corporation is a rapidly-growing, entrepreneurial company that operates with a people-first philosophy and approach. The company lives by its core values—Do What’s Right, Lead with Grace, Win Together, and Own It—in everything it does for its customers and team members. The company seeks to grow aggressively, both organically and through acquisition, to continue to be the undisputed market leader with these five core competencies: bias for action, customer focus, teamwork, drive for results, and commitment to excellence.

The Workday Payroll Analyst is the functional system owner for Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence. This role is responsible for system configuration, governance, integrations, reporting, and continuous optimization to ensure accurate, compliant, and efficient payroll operations.

Serving as the Payroll systems counterpart to HRIS, this role partners closely with Payroll, HR Operations, Finance, IT, and external vendors to maintain data integrity, strengthen controls, and enhance the employee and manager experience.

• Administer and optimize Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence modules.
• Configure earnings, deductions, pay groups, time codes, accruals, overtime rules, and pay policies.
• Maintain payroll-related business processes, security roles, and integrations.
• Monitor inbound and outbound integrations to ensure data accuracy and system stability.

• Support payroll processing cycles through audits, validations, and issue resolution.
• Ensure payroll and time data integrity through reconciliations and variance analysis.
• Maintain audit-ready documentation and support SOX/internal controls.
• Monitor regulatory changes impacting payroll and timekeeping practices.

• Develop and maintain payroll, time, and absence reporting and dashboards.
• Support labor costing accuracy and GL integration in partnership with Finance.
• Provide workforce and payroll analytics to inform operational decisions.

• Translate business requirements into scalable system solutions.
• Lead testing efforts including unit, regression, and UAT cycles.
• Leverage Workday best practices to reduce manual processes and improve efficiency.

• 3+ years of hands-on Workday Payroll experience.
• Experience supporting Workday Time Tracking and Absence.
• Strong knowledge of payroll compliance, tax regulations, and labor laws.
• Experience supporting audits and maintaining internal controls.
• Proficiency in Workday reporting (Advanced, Matrix, Composite preferred).
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

An ideal candidate for this role naturally works in alignment with the Verra Mobility Core Values:

• Own It. We focus on high performance and drive toward breakthrough outcomes. Our employees ensure accountability, optimize and align work, focus on the customer, and cultivate innovation.
• Do What’s Right. We champion integrity and good character. Our team members model ethical behavior, demonstrate good judgment and are courageous.
• Choose Courage Over Comfort. We lean into the conversations, decisions and actions that move the business forward, even when they feel uncomfortable. We challenge assumptions, address issues early and prioritize progress over ease.
• Win Together. We believe in growing and inspiring people together. We seek people who…