Big Red Recruitment
Payroll Systems Analyst
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About the Role
We're looking for an experienced Payroll Systems Analyst to be the subject matter expert for our Workday Payroll solution. This is an excellent opportunity to join a collaborative HR Systems team where you'll play a key role in maintaining, enhancing and optimising Workday Payroll, ensuring accurate, compliant and efficient payroll processes that support the wider business.
Working closely with core internal functions and external partners, you'll lead on payroll-related configuration, system improvements, release management and continuous improvement initiatives while ensuring an excellent experience for colleagues.
Responsibilities
- Configure, maintain and enhance Workday Payroll functionality to meet business requirements.
- Support payroll processes across Time & Absence, Compensation and Benefits, ensuring all module dependencies are understood and managed.
- Analyse business requirements and translate these into scalable Workday solutions.
- Manage payroll-related incidents, defects and enhancement requests, prioritising work based on business impact.
- Lead testing activities including regression testing, UAT and implementation of system changes.
- Support Workday's release cycle by assessing new functionality, coordinating testing and recommending improvements.
- Produce and maintain Workday payroll reports, reconciliations and management information.
- Ensure payroll data integrity, governance and compliance with GDPR and payroll legislation.
- Create and maintain system documentation, test scripts and process guides.
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About You
- Minimum 2 years' experience configuring or supporting Workday
- Strong understanding of Payroll, Time & Absence, Compensation and Benefits within Workday.
- Experience configuring Workday business processes and supporting payroll-related system changes.
- Good understanding of payroll legislation, governance and payroll controls.
- Experience managing Workday releases, testing, UAT and defect resolution.
- Experience gathering requirements, analysing business processes and delivering system improvements.
- Ability to produce Workday reports and support payroll reporting requirements.
- Understanding of GDPR, data quality and information security principles.
- Experience working within Agile or structured project delivery environments.
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Job Details
- Permanent opportunity
- Coventry based office
- Hybrid working, 2-3 days per week office-based with remainder working remotely
- Salary up to £55,000 + benefits
We are an equal opportunity recruitment company. This means we welcome applications from all suitably qualified people regardless of race, sex, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age.
We are particularly invested in Neurodiversity inclusion and offer reasonable adjustments in the interview process. Reasonable adjustments are changes that we can make in the interview process if your disability puts you at a disadvantage compared with others who are not disabled. If you would benefit from a reasonable adjustment in your interview process, please call or email one of our recruiters.
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