Business Systems Analyst, Payroll Systems

Role overview Improve payroll, planning, and absence-management processes by translating business needs into solutions delivered through Workday. Reporting to a finance systems lead, you will partner with Payroll, Finance, Total Rewards, and IT to manage requests and projects, support secure implementation, and improve how employee-related processes work at scale.

Responsibilities - Lead project planning and coordination, including timelines, milestones, dependencies, ownership matrices, status meetings, action items, and decision records. - Gather needs and pain points from Payroll, Finance, and Total Rewards; document requirements, user stories, and use cases. - Evaluate and prioritize requests based on business impact, delivery effort, return, and compliance considerations. - Convert business requirements into technical specifications, considering standard Workday configuration as well as enhancements where needed. - Coordinate solution development, testing, deployment, and business validation with IT and stakeholder teams. - Track demand, communicate progress, surface risks and scope changes, and identify useful updates in the Workday ecosystem.

Requirements - Ability to turn complex or ambiguous business needs into clear requirements, specifications, test plans, and implementation plans. - Experience with project planning, demand management, Agile delivery, and change adoption. - Strong understanding of data stewardship, security, privacy, auditability, and compliance for employee or payroll information. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to explain technical options and tradeoffs to nontechnical partners. - Ability to build effective working relationships across business and technical teams.

Benefits and work setup - The role is remote. Compensation varies by location; the stated Redwood City, California base range is $124,000–$176,675. - Benefits include an employer 401(k) match, a flexible annual benefit for personal or family needs, paid volunteer time, select family-forming support, and relocation assistance for employees moving to the Bay Area.