Manager, Workday Payroll, Time & Absence

Legend Biotech

Manager overseeing Workday Payroll, Time & Absence for Legend Biotech, optimizing HR systems and ensuring regulatory compliance. Leading system enhancements and process improvements in payroll accuracy and operations.

Posted 5/5/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $127,313 - $167,099 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and manage Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence, ensuring configurations support accurate pay, compliant time capture, and effective leave administration across worker populations.
Provide functional leadership for payroll and time processes, guiding system design decisions and maintaining scalable frameworks that support operational stability.
Oversee critical configuration areas across payroll calculations, time rules, and absence plans, ensuring changes are governed, tested, and aligned with policy and regulatory requirements.
Manage Workday biannual releases for Payroll, Time, and Absence — evaluating feature impacts, directing regression testing, and enabling functionality that strengthens operational performance.
Maintain strong business process controls, audit readiness, and segregation of duties to protect payroll integrity and sensitive worker data.
Establish configuration governance and deployment standards, ensuring structured testing, documentation, and migration practices.
Partner closely with Payroll and HR Operations to translate operational needs into sustainable system solutions while reducing manual effort and processing risk.
Drive payroll accuracy by supporting reconciliation activities and proactively addressing system-related discrepancies.
Maintain comprehensive documentation and configuration artifacts to support compliance, knowledge sharing, and long-term system sustainability.
Identify opportunities to standardize processes, simplify configuration, and enhance system efficiency using Workday best practices.
Act as the decision-maker for configuration and design choices across Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence, balancing operational efficiency with regulatory compliance and pay accuracy.
Evaluate new Workday functionality impacting payroll and time, determining adoption recommendations based on operational risk, business readiness, and downstream payroll impact.
Prioritize system enhancements and production changes in alignment with payroll calendars, compliance requirements, and HRIS governance frameworks.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business, Information Systems, or related field required.
Minimum of 5 years of experience in HRIS or HR technology roles, with at least 3+ years of hands-on Workday Payroll, Time and Absence configuration experience.
Deep functional knowledge of Workday Payroll frameworks, time policies, and leave administration, with a strong understanding of upstream dependencies.
Proven experience leading Workday release cycles for Payroll, Time, and Absence.
Demonstrated ability to partner with Payroll and HR Operations, effectively prioritizing competing demands while maintaining operational stability.
Advanced Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence configuration.
Strong expertise in Business Processes, condition rules, and calculated fields.
Solid understanding of Workday security and domain access impacting payroll data.
Advanced Excel for analysis, reconciliations, and troubleshooting.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental, and vision insurance
401(k) retirement plan with company match that vests fully on day one
Eight (8) weeks of paid parental leave after three (3) months of employment
Paid time off policy including vacation time, personal time, sick time, floating holidays, and eleven (11) company holidays
Flexible spending and health savings accounts
Life and AD&D insurance
Short- and long-term disability coverage
Legal assistance
Supplemental plans such as pet, critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance
Voluntary commuter benefits
Family planning and care resources
Well-being initiatives
Peer-to-peer recognition programs

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Hard Skills & Tools

Workday PayrollWorkday Time TrackingWorkday AbsencePayroll configurationTime rules configurationAbsence plans configurationBusiness ProcessesCondition rulesCalculated fieldsAdvanced Excel

Soft Skills

Functional leadershipOperational stabilityDocumentationKnowledge sharingProcess standardizationProblem-solvingPrioritizationCollaborationDecision-makingAudit readiness