Senior Payroll Projects Specialist
Western Digital
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $95,981 - $135,896 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Serve as a Payroll Subject Matter Expert (SME) on global payroll-related projects and initiatives.
- Support the execution of payroll-impacting projects, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance.
- Apply project management methodologies to drive successful delivery of payroll initiatives.
- Facilitate stakeholder meetings, executive reporting, and risk mitigation strategies.
- Translate business needs into functional requirements and actionable plans.
- Drive process improvement and change management efforts related to payroll operations.
- Partner with HRIT and third-party providers to support implementation of regulatory, process, and system changes.
- Collaborate with Benefits, Human Resources, Accounting, Stock Plan Administration, and other internal teams to ensure project alignment and success.
- Ensure high-value customer service and effective communication with all partner functions.
- Liaise with external vendors to ensure deliverables are on time, meet company standards, and compliance requirements.
- Lead and participate in testing activities related to payroll systems, integrations, and process changes.
- Prepare and verify documentation and reports related to payroll projects.
- Conduct research and prepare presentations or reports to support management decisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business, related field, or equivalent experience.
- Minimum 7 years of payroll experience, including direct payroll processing responsibilities.
- Expert-level knowledge of U.S. payroll, including federal, state, and local tax regulations and reporting.
- Experience working in a matrixed or global organization, managing multiple stakeholders across regions.
- High-level understanding of America's, EMEA and APAC payroll practices and compliance considerations.
- Familiarity with complex HRIS workflows and integrations.
- Working knowledge of Workday Payroll and systems such as Workday HCM & Payroll, Ceridian Dayforce, ADP Celergo, ADP GlobalView, and various Time & Attendance platforms in a multi-country environment.
Benefits
- Paid vacation time
- Paid sick leave
- Medical/dental/vision insurance
- Life, accident and disability insurance
- Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
- Employee assistance program
- Other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
- Tuition reimbursement
- Transit
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
payroll processingproject managementprocess improvementchange managementU.S. payroll regulationstax regulationsHRIS workflowspayroll systems testingdocumentation preparationreporting
Soft skills
stakeholder managementcommunicationcustomer servicecollaborationrisk mitigationexecutive reportingresearchpresentation skillsfacilitationproblem-solving