Senior Specialist - Workday Payroll

- Investigate the Business/technical requirement for the Payroll Needs and work accordingly with the stakeholders to achieve a consensus on the organizations needs and priorities.

- Identifying Payroll , Calculation Statuses and Defining the Payroll Components.

- Familiarity with US Taxation, Tax Exceptions and Deferred Compensation plans.

- In-depth knowledge of Configuring Workday Payroll framework including defining gross and net pay accumulations, updating the Run categories as necessary, defining Payment election rule etc.

- Identifying type of calculation, Payroll-specific calculation and simple calculation.

- Ability to setup company federal, local and State taxes.

- Should be able to setup Earning, Deductions and Tax calculation.

- Analyse Workday release updates to understand impact of feature changes, in relation the existing configuration.

- Meets or exceeds service level agreements when making system updates, mass uploads, security changes, or troubleshooting interfaces.

- Participates in HR initiatives, and serves as an HRIS subject matter expert in company-wide system integration projects when needed.

- Applies compliance and audit requirements within scope of responsibility, provides documentation as necessary, and participates in compliance and audit activities as required.

- Develops a thorough understanding of system employee information, processes, and policies.

- Participate in business analysis activities to gather required requirements.

- Translate business requirements into specifications BRD that will be used to implement the required configuration change

. - Ensure proper configuration management and change controls are implemented for your sphere of influence.

- Provide technical assistance and cross training to other team members

- Provide training and assistance to users.

- Design and implement technology best practices, guidelines and repeatable processes , Must be able to perform duties with moderate to low supervision.