Systems Analyst, Workday Payroll Analyst
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Systems Analyst, Workday Payroll Analyst
A Career with point72’s technology TEAM
As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology team is constantly evolving our firm’s IT infrastructure and engineering capabilities, positioning us at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We’re a team of experts who experiment and work to discover new ways to harness open-source solutions, modern cloud architectures, and sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions, while embracing enterprise agile methodologies. Our commitment to building and innovating in the AI space provides the framework intended to drive smarter decision making and enhance how we build and operate our platforms and applications.
As a member of Point72’s Technology team, we encourage and support your professional development from day one—helping you advance your technical skills, contribute innovative ideas, and satisfy your own intellectual curiosity—all while delivering real business impact for our multi-billion-dollar global business.
What you’ll do
- Support the technology for global payroll ensuring accurate and timely payroll execution
- Analyze the 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 closes
- 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, pay slips, reporting, and reconciliations
- Configure, test, and maintain payroll-related system functionality, including pay groups, pay components, deductions, payroll inputs, accounting, and pay slip 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
What’s REQUIRED
- 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 pay slips
- 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, with the ability to explain technical issues clearly and manage priorities across regions and time zones
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards