Overview
As a Payroll Specialist, you will play a critical role in analyzing and transforming payroll operations by identifying error patterns and investigating exceptions within a complex payroll environment. This position involves working closely with a Lead Payroll Subject Matter Expert to conduct a thorough review of payroll data, uncovering root causes and providing actionable insights to drive improvements. Your analytical skills will be essential in documenting findings and supporting the development of a sustainable operating model for payroll services.
Responsibilities
- Gather, structure, and interrogate payroll data and supporting evidence.
- Analyze trends, anomalies, error types, and recurring populations within payroll data.
- Trace issues throughout the payroll lifecycle to identify failure points.
- Test hypotheses and root causes against data while collaborating with stakeholders.
- Support payroll-cycle observation and control testing to assess systemic issues.
- Document findings, data limitations, assumptions, and unresolved questions.
- Assist in current-state process and control mapping, prioritizing improvements.
- Provide analytical support to the Lead Payroll SME for conclusions and future-state design.
Requirements
- Significant experience analyzing payroll operations data in high-volume environments.
- Proven ability to investigate payroll errors using data analysis, not just process mapping.
- Advanced Excel skills with strong data manipulation and reconciliation capabilities.
- Practical understanding of payroll processing, including corrections and reconciliations.
- Experience collaborating with various departments within a governed delivery team.
- Strong analytical judgment to produce clear, concise evidence for reviews.
- Familiarity with Oracle Fusion Payroll, Power Query, Power BI, or SQL is a plus.