Specialist HR Systems & Solutions- Payroll Configuration
Amgen
Looking for a mid-to-senior Workday Payroll Configuration Consultant with 7–10 years of overall experience, including at least 5 years of hands-on Workday Payroll configuration or post-production support experience, primarily supporting US payroll.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, configure, test, deploy, and support Workday Payroll solutions for US operations.
- Configure earnings, deductions, taxes, FLSA calculations, retroactive adjustments, off-cycle payments, and payroll calendars.
- Partner with Payroll, HR, and Integration teams to develop effective solutions.
- Translate payroll requirements into scalable Workday configurations while identifying risks and cross-functional impacts.
- Troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement sustainable fixes.
- Support unit testing, regression testing, user acceptance testing, go-live, and post-production stabilization.
- Assess Workday’s bi-annual releases and coordinate payroll-related configuration and testing activities.
- Serve as a Workday Payroll subject matter expert and recommend configuration best practices.
- 7–10 years of experience in payroll technology, HR technology, or enterprise systems.
- Minimum 5 years of Workday Payroll configuration, implementation, or production support experience.
- Strong functional knowledge of Workday US Payroll and North American payroll operations.
- Knowledge of US tax regulations, compliance requirements, payroll processing, and year-end activities.
- Experience with Workday Core HCM, Reporting, Calculated Fields, Security, and payroll-related integrations.
- Strong analytical, consulting, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Workday US Payroll certification.
- Experience supporting multi-currency payroll.