Workday Payroll/Time Tracking Specialist (W2)
Contract to Hire after about 6 – 12 months
Client: Pinnacle/ AST – Application Software Technology
Location: 2 days Hybrid (Tuesdays and Wednesdays onsite) in either Walnut Creek, CA or Phoenix, AZ (Biltmore area)
- Serve as a key liaison between the Workday Support Team and the Payroll Team, providing functional support and remediation of the Payroll, Leave of Absence, and Time Tracking modules.
- Serve as the primary Workday configuration, integration and reporting professional for Payroll, Leave of Absence, and Time Tracking functionality.
- Utilize systems/analyst experience in the Payroll and Time Tracking modules.
- Design and Develop Reports, Complex Calculated Fields using Report writer and integration solutions in Workday using EIB’S, Custom Reports or RaaS solutions. Serve as a key liaison between business teams, 3rd party vendors and IT for system integrations and issue resolution.
- Build Advanced Calculated Fields using Report Writer and integrations using EIB’s to support client’s requirements.
- Work with APIs within the Workday environment using REST or SOAP and XSLT and XML programming Language.
- Utilize knowledge of Workday and experience integrating with 3rd party applications.
- Support pre and post payroll activities and payroll audits (e.g. Exempt/Nonexempt Term Audits, CA Audit Reports, High Gross/High Net Audits, Zero Net/Zero Gross, Review master data file quality and confirm time/payroll data completeness).
- Utilize knowledge of ERP, Workday System Concepts and Time Tracking, Payroll module functionality.
- Assist in resolving input errors and other errors from the third-party vendors or internal AAA (Tax, Treasury and Finance) stakeholders performing root cause analysis.
- Support Year-End Payroll processing activities (e.g. develop and provide payroll calendar, review year-end tax reports).
- Design, document, build, unit test and support functional tasks, configuration, and programs for Workday Payroll and Time Tracking projects.
- Research and participate in bi-annual releases to keep up to date on new Workday functionality to make recommendations for adoption.
- Support data extraction, audit controls and data quality alerts.
- Provide end-user support with troubleshooting and issue remediation.
- Research problems and identify opportunities on possible solutions with ultimate escalation to the Workday Support Team.