Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. KinderCare Learning Companies is a leading early childhood education provider recognized with the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award. The Workday Principal Payroll Analyst will support payroll operations and reporting, ensuring compliance and accuracy while collaborating with various stakeholders to optimize payroll functions.
Responsibilities
- Support payroll operations, reporting, compliance, and legal requests in partnership with the Senior Payroll Manager
- Develop and maintain Workday payroll dashboards, reports, and analytics
- Ensure payroll data accuracy through audits, validation, and data governance
- Provide technical support for Workday payroll; resolve payroll, timekeeping, tax, and system issues; recommend process improvements
- Monitor payroll processes for cross-functional impacts and escalate recurring issues or training needs
- Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local payroll regulations
- Partner with payroll, HR, IT, and business stakeholders to define testing requirements, coordinate release readiness, and validate system changes
- Serve as the liaison between functional and technical teams and maintain Workday documentation and training materials
- Plan and execute testing for Workday configurations, enhancements, integrations, and biannual releases across HCM modules
- Perform functional, regression, user acceptance, and integration testing, including validation of external data interfaces
- Manage test environments and document and track defects, validate fixes, and report testing results
- Ensure testing complies with data governance and audit requirements
Skills
- 2–5+ years of experience in payroll, HRIS, QA testing, or HCM systems
- Strong understanding of payroll compliance and Workday payroll processing
- Experience with testing tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps, HP ALM)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Benefits
- Discounted child care benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits for your family (and pets, too!)
- Employee assistance programs
- Access to health and wellness programs
- Paid time off
- Discounts for work necessities, such as cell phones
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