Business Systems Analyst, Payroll Systems

Location: Redwood City, CA (Remote)Full-TimeSenior

Salary124,000 - 176,675 USD per year

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Bring 5+ years of hands-on experience configuring Workday, including business processes, reporting, security, integrations, and related tools.
Have payroll application design and implementation experience in a rapidly scaling organization.
Have deep knowledge of Payroll and Absence Management processes.
Be able to identify manual, repetitive, error-prone, or low-value work and translate it into scalable automation, workflow, analytics, or AI-enabled improvements.
Be able to turn complex and ambiguous business needs into clear requirements, user stories, technical specifications, test plans, and implementation roadmaps.
Have experience with Agile delivery methods, demand management, project planning, and change adoption.
Understand enterprise data management, security, privacy, auditability, and compliance considerations for employee and payroll data.
Be able to apply appropriate controls and human review to automated or AI-supported processes.
Have strong analytical, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills and be able to build partnerships across Payroll, Finance, Total Rewards, and IT.

Build and maintain project timelines, milestones, and dependency maps, and develop RACI matrices to clarify stakeholder ownership.
Facilitate status meetings, track action items, maintain project artifacts, and surface risks, blockers, and scope changes to leadership.
Work with Payroll, Finance, and Total Rewards teams to understand business needs, pain points, and desired outcomes.
Document business requirements, create user stories and use cases, and prioritize requests based on business impact, delivery effort, ROI, and compliance.
Translate business requirements into technical specifications, considering standard Workday configuration and, when needed, customizations or enhancements.
Coordinate with IT to develop, test, and deploy solutions, and with business teams to test outcomes.
Prioritize demand, create project plans, and monitor and communicate progress through the project lifecycle.
Explain technical capabilities to business stakeholders and translate business requirements for technical teams.
Keep up with Workday features and trends and recommend potential system enhancements.

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