Systems Analyst, HR

Overview

This role supports technology for global payroll across multiple countries, working with core and third-party payroll platforms. The position focuses on analyzing end-to-end payroll processes, translating business needs into system requirements and configuration changes, and ensuring accurate and timely payroll execution.

Responsibilities

• Support technology for global payroll across countries supported by core and third-party payroll platforms, ensuring accurate and timely payroll execution
• Analyze end-to-end payroll processes and translate business needs into clear system requirements, configuration updates, integration changes, and control enhancements
• Support payroll cycles by triaging production issues, resolving data defects, validating results, and coordinating urgent fixes before payroll close
• Monitor and troubleshoot integrations across payroll, human resources, finance, banking, benefits, equity, time, and tax-related systems
• Partner with global payroll teams to manage calendars, cutoffs, approvals, funding timelines, bank files, payslips, reporting, and reconciliations
• Configure, test, and maintain payroll-related system functionality, including pay groups, pay components, deductions, payroll inputs, accounting, and payslip setup
• Lead testing for releases, country rollouts, statutory updates, and process improvements, including test scripts, defect tracking, regression testing, and go-live readiness
• Reconcile payroll outputs across source and target systems, identify variances, and strengthen audit controls for sensitive employee and banking data
• Maintain documentation for payroll processes, integrations, data mappings, runbooks, test evidence, issue logs, and country-specific operating procedures
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to deliver resilient payroll systems

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in payroll systems, human resources systems, or payroll operations within a multinational organization
• Hands-on experience with human capital management and payroll platforms such as Workday, including business processes, security roles, worker data, payroll inputs, and payroll results
• Experience supporting outsourced payroll processing through providers such as CloudPay, including input templates, validations, payroll previews, variance analysis, approvals, statutory outputs, banking files, and payslips
• Strong understanding of multi-country payroll processes, including gross-to-net calculations, taxes, benefits, pensions, garnishments, retro pay, final pay, and year-end processing
• Ability to manage and troubleshoot integrations using payroll data files, secure file transfers, application interfaces, field mapping, effective dating, error handling, and reconciliation controls
• Working knowledge of payroll compliance and controls, including data privacy, approval controls, segregation of duties, audit trails, statutory deadlines, and secure data handling
• Experience supporting system changes through requirements gathering, functional specifications, configuration support, test scripts, user acceptance testing, release management, and post-production support
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to explain technical issues clearly and manage priorities across regions and time zones
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards

Preferred Qualifications

• Not specified

Compensation & Benefits

• Annual base salary range: $150,000-$225,000 (USD)
• Discretionary bonus compensation not included
• Comprehensive benefits package included
• Actual compensation may vary based on geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things

Benefits include:

• Fully-paid health care benefits
• Generous parental and family leave policies
• Mental and physical wellness programs
• Volunteer opportunities
• Non-profit matching gift program
• Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, minorities and the LGBT+ community
• Tuition assistance
• A 401(k) savings program with an employer match and more

Location

• Not specified