Responsibilities
- Support and optimize payroll functionality within Workday and ensure payroll operations remain accurate, compliant, and stable in a complex healthcare environment.
- Serve as a primary resource for troubleshooting payroll issues, supporting payroll processing, configuring Workday Payroll components, managing testing and release impacts, supporting reporting needs, and coordinating cross-functional dependencies with HR, Finance, IT, Clinical teams, and external partners.
- Provide consulting support to Payroll stakeholders on Workday Payroll functionality, configuration, and optimization.
- Act as a primary point of contact for system troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and resolution of Workday Payroll issues impacting daily operations and payroll processing cycles.
- Provide best practice guidance and consulting support to Payroll, HR, Finance, and IT stakeholders to drive process efficiency and operational improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required (six (6) years of additional relevant experience may be substituted in lieu of degree).
- Proven experience supporting payroll operations, HRIS/payroll systems, or enterprise financial systems in a large-scale organization.
- Hands-on experience with Workday Payroll configuration and payroll processing in a production environment.
- Demonstrated experience configuring and supporting Workday Payroll elements such as: Earnings and deductions, Pay groups and pay period schedules, Payroll calendars and run categories, Employee tax elections and payroll tax setup, Payroll accounting and posting rules, Costing allocations and payroll reconciliation.
- Experience supporting payroll processing including payroll calculations, payroll complete, settlement activities, and audit validation for both on-cycle and off-cycle payroll.
- Experience creating, loading, and validating payroll-related EIBs (payroll input, off-cycle processing, period schedules, no-retro-prior-to-date, etc.).
- Experience supporting Workday release management activities including impact assessment, test planning, writing test scripts, executing test cases, validating results, and coordinating adoption of payroll-related updates.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with the ability to conduct root cause analysis and drive issue resolution.
- Strong ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders and provide consultative guidance.
- Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
Nice to Have
- Workday Payroll certification(s) strongly preferred.
- Prior experience in a healthcare organization strongly preferred.
- Experience with healthcare ERP/EHR integrations (e.g., Workday integrated with Epic).
- Familiarity with CMS reporting requirements and nonprofit finance standards.
- Payroll certification (CPP, FPC) preferred.
- Prior experience supporting Workday Payroll regression testing and release readiness activities in a healthcare or large enterprise environment.
- Experience supporting large enterprise payroll environments with complex costing structures, multiple pay groups, and multi-state taxation.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- short-term and long-term disability
- group term life insurance and other optional voluntary benefits
- Wellness Presbyterian's Employee Wellness rewards program
Additional Information
- All benefits-eligible Presbyterian employees receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability, group term life insurance and other optional voluntary benefits.
- Wellness Presbyterian's Employee Wellness rewards program is designed to provide you with engaging opportunities to enhance your health and activate your well-being. Earn gift cards and more by taking an active role in our personal well-being by participating in wellness activities like wellness challenges, webinar, preventive screening and more.
