We are seeking a highly skilled Payroll Analyst to support complex U.S. payroll operations with sound judgment, technical payroll expertise, and a continuous improvement mindset. Our North American Payroll team supports approximately 5,500 U.S. employees across all 50 states and five Employer Identification Numbers (EINs).
This role is responsible for delivering accurate, compliant payroll while reducing risk, strengthening controls, improving processes, and enhancing the employee experience.
The successful candidate will be curious, analytical, and comfortable partnering across Payroll, HR, Finance, Benefits, Tax, Technology, vendors, and business stakeholders to solve problems, support payroll-related projects and implementations, influence change, and drive meaningful business impact
The best Payroll Analysts do more than process payroll. They improve it by preventing errors, solving root causes, improving controls, reducing manual work, and delivering measurable results.
Position Responsibilities:Payroll Operations, Compliance & Analysis
Independently process, audit, and validate high-volume payroll accurately and on time across multiple jurisdictions, legal entities, pay groups, and payroll cycles.
Handle escalated payroll support cases, including complex employee, manager, HR, and vendor inquiries requiring research, judgment, and timely resolution.
Lead complex payroll activities, including equity compensation, executive payroll, deferred compensation, board payments, mobile employee payroll, relocation, annual compensation, bonus cycles, taxable benefits, and special tax treatment items.
Lead quarterly and year-end activities, including reconciliations, audits, amended filings, adjustments, taxable benefit reporting, and employee reporting requirements.
Research and resolve complex payroll, tax, and benefits issues while applying federal, state, local, and other regulatory requirements.
Investigate payroll discrepancies, determine root causes, and recommend sustainable solutions.
Support payroll system, configuration, integration, and process changes through structured end-to-end testing and validation.
Develop test scripts, scenarios, and validation plans, including regression, integration, parallel, negative, and exception testing.
Anticipate edge cases and confirm that results align with business requirements.
Document testing outcomes, defects, risks, and recommendations.
Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, standardize, and strengthen payroll processes and controls.
Create and maintain process documentation, job aids, and operating procedures while contributing to projects that reduce risk and support scalable payroll operations.
Use Workday, ADP Global View, SAP-based payroll tools, and related technologies to support payroll delivery, integrations, and issue resolution.
Support and troubleshoot inbound and outbound payroll integrations, including retirement plans, deferred compensation, benefits, withholding, garnishments, tax filings, and workers' compensation reporting.
Use approved AI, automation, reporting, and productivity tools to improve research, reconciliations, documentation, testing, analysis, process mapping, and communications.
Identify practical technology and workflow improvements while protecting confidential data, validating outputs, maintaining human review, and ensuring payroll compliance.
Build strong partnerships with Benefits, Pension, Compensation, Finance, Tax, Technology, and external vendors.
Communicate complex payroll concepts in clear, business-friendly language.
Share knowledge, support teammates, and contribute to a culture of learning and continuous…
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