Exciting Opportunity at MSK: Functional Technical Analyst – Payroll
Join MSK’s Payroll team as a Functional Technical Analyst – Payroll. In this role, you’ll blend technical and payroll functional expertise to optimize payroll processes, solve complex system challenges, and drive automation. Partner across teams to enhance payroll accuracy, ensure compliance, and deliver impactful solutions.
Role Overview:
- Establish Ownership and Agency of the payroll function, proactively identifying and resolving issues, and implementing process improvements.
- Stay updated on changes in payroll legislation and implement necessary adjustments while ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local payroll laws and regulations.
- Prioritize and resolve statutory and regulatory compliance issues and assist with the change management across affected departments.
- Provide strategic, tactical and operational payroll systems design, emergency production corrections and system disaster recovery in Workday, MSK Time/Symplr Time and Attendance systems.
- Write documentation, instructions, job aids and training materials.
- Deliver training on new features and compliance changes in the payroll system.
- Serve as a Subject Matter Expert for all enterprise-wide projects that has time and attendance and payroll touchpoints.
- Engage with key stakeholders and others in payroll to identify and implement solutions for optimizations using business process changes, system solutions and automations.
- Continuously evaluate payroll processes and identify opportunities for automation and efficiency improvements. Lead initiatives to enhance payroll operations.
- Monitor and contribute actively to team meetings and communicate effectively to leadership and cross functional teams.
- Stay up to date with new features in the ERP and upcoming changes that impact payroll delivery and compliance.
- Prepare and analyze payroll reports. This includes earnings, deductions, taxes, and other payroll-related metrics. Provide insights and recommendations based on data analysis
- Oversee and execute end-to-end payroll processing for all employees, ensuring accuracy and compliance with company policies and legal requirements. Provide support to payroll operations as needed.
- Upskill by attending networking events, American payroll association and Workday community.
Key Qualifications
- Experience with Workday, Symplr and /or Kronos
- Proven experience taking complex business problems and translating into actionable results
- Ability to identify payroll issues and opportunities for system improvement
Core Skills:
- Analytical mindset with the ability to resolve undefined, complex problems.
- Excellent communication skills for stakeholder engagement and solution advocacy.
- Proficient in payroll, Time and Attendance domain knowledge.
- Proficient in payroll data analysis, reporting, and process documentation.
- Collaborative approach, with the ability to influence peers and cross-functional teams
Additional Information:
- Pay Range: $105,000 - $120,000
- Reporting to Associate Director, Finance Technical Operations
- Schedule: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EST, Monday - Friday
- Location: Hybrid; 2x a week on site at 633 Third Ave, New York, NY
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