Workday Principal Payroll Analyst – Remote

Workday Principal Payroll Analyst

Support the daily payroll operations, reporting, compliance, and legal requests in partnership with the Senior Payroll Manager.

• Support payroll operations, reporting, compliance, and legal requests in partnership with Senior Payroll Manager.
• Develop and maintain Workday payroll dashboards, reports, and analytics.
• Ensure payroll data accuracy through audits, validation, and data governance.
• Provide technical support for Workday payroll; resolve payroll, timekeeping, tax, and system issues; recommend process improvements.
• Monitor payroll processes for cross‑functional impacts and escalate recurring issues or training needs.
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local payroll regulations.
• Partner with payroll, HR, IT, and business stakeholders to define testing requirements, coordinate release readiness, and validate system changes.
• Serve as liaison between functional and technical teams and maintain Workday documentation and training materials.

• Plan and execute testing for Workday configurations, enhancements, integrations, and biannual releases across HCM modules.
• Perform functional, regression, user acceptance, and integration testing, including validation of external data interfaces.
• Manage test environments and document and track defects, validate fixes, and report testing results.
• Ensure testing complies with data governance and audit requirements.

• 2–5+ years of experience in payroll, HRIS, QA testing, or HCM systems.
• Strong understanding of payroll compliance and Workday payroll processing.
• Experience with testing tools such as Jira, Azure Dev Ops, HP ALM.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.

• Discounted child care benefits for your whole family.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits for your family (and pets).
• Employee assistance programs for mental health and personal growth.
• Health and wellness programs, paid time off, and discounts for work necessities such as cell phones.
• … and much more.

Kinder Care Learning Companies is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal law.