Manager, Workday Payroll, Time & Absence

Job Description:

• Own and manage Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence, ensuring configurations support accurate pay, compliant time capture, and effective leave administration across worker populations.
• Provide functional leadership for payroll and time processes, guiding system design decisions and maintaining scalable frameworks that support operational stability.
• Oversee critical configuration areas across payroll calculations, time rules, and absence plans, ensuring changes are governed, tested, and aligned with policy and regulatory requirements.
• Manage Workday biannual releases for Payroll, Time, and Absence — evaluating feature impacts, directing regression testing, and enabling functionality that strengthens operational performance.
• Maintain strong business process controls, audit readiness, and segregation of duties to protect payroll integrity and sensitive worker data.
• Establish configuration governance and deployment standards, ensuring structured testing, documentation, and migration practices.
• Partner closely with Payroll and HR Operations to translate operational needs into sustainable system solutions while reducing manual effort and processing risk.
• Drive payroll accuracy by supporting reconciliation activities and proactively addressing system-related discrepancies.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation and configuration artifacts to support compliance, knowledge sharing, and long-term system sustainability.
• Identify opportunities to standardize processes, simplify configuration, and enhance system efficiency using Workday best practices.
• Act as the decision-maker for configuration and design choices across Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence, balancing operational efficiency with regulatory compliance and pay accuracy.
• Evaluate new Workday functionality impacting payroll and time, determining adoption recommendations based on operational risk, business readiness, and downstream payroll impact.
• Prioritize system enhancements and production changes in alignment with payroll calendars, compliance requirements, and HRIS governance frameworks.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business, Information Systems, or related field required.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in HRIS or HR technology roles, with at least 3+ years of hands-on Workday Payroll, Time and Absence configuration experience.
• Deep functional knowledge of Workday Payroll frameworks, time policies, and leave administration, with a strong understanding of upstream dependencies.
• Proven experience leading Workday release cycles for Payroll, Time, and Absence.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with Payroll and HR Operations, effectively prioritizing competing demands while maintaining operational stability.
• Advanced Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence configuration.
• Strong expertise in Business Processes, condition rules, and calculated fields.
• Solid understanding of Workday security and domain access impacting payroll data.
• Advanced Excel for analysis, reconciliations, and troubleshooting.

Benefits:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match that vests fully on day one
• Eight (8) weeks of paid parental leave after three (3) months of employment
• Paid time off policy including vacation time, personal time, sick time, floating holidays, and eleven (11) company holidays
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• Legal assistance
• Supplemental plans such as pet, critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance
• Voluntary commuter benefits
• Family planning and care resources
• Well-being initiatives
• Peer-to-peer recognition programs

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