Workday Payroll Specialist

Job Description
Key Responsibilities
Serve as a key Liaison for Workday Payroll functional team to provide support and remediate the Payroll and HCM modules.
Serve as the primary Workday configuration and reporting professional for functionality but limited to Payroll, Benefits, Compensation, Core HR, Time Tracking and General Ledger.
Utilize systems/analyst experience in payroll and HR modules.
Design and Develop Reports, Complex Calculated Fields using Report writer and integration solutions in Workday using EIB’S, Custom Reports or RaaS solutions. Serve as a key liaison between business teams, 3rd party vendors and IT for system integrations and issue resolution.
Build Advanced Calculated Fields using Report Writer and integrations using EIB’s to support client’s requirements.
Work with APIs within the Workday environment using REST or SOAP and XSLT and XML programming Language.
Utilize knowledge of Workday and experience integrating with 3rd party applications.
Support pre and post payroll activities and payroll audits (e.G. Exempt/Nonexempt Term Audits, CA Audit Reports, High Gross/High Net Audits, Zero Net/Zero Gross, Review master data file quality and confirm time/payroll data completeness).
Utilize knowledge of ERP, Workday System Concepts and HCM, payroll module functionality.
Assist in resolving input errors and other errors from the third-party vendors or internal AbbVie (Tax, Treasury, Finance and BHR) stakeholders performing root cause analysis.
Support Year-End Payroll processing activities (e.G. develop and provide payroll calendar, review year-end tax reports and notify AbbVie employees of availability of tax information.
Design, document, build, unit test and support functional tasks, configuration, and programs for Workday HCM and Payroll projects.
Research and participate in update training to keep up to date on new Workday functionality to make recommendations for adoption.
Support data extraction, audit controls and data quality alerts.
Provide end-user support with troubleshooting and issue remediation.
Research problems and identify opportunities on suggested solutions with escalation management to Workday Second Level Support team.