Payroll senior specialist , senior payroll analyst, payroll team leader

About the Role

Own end-to-end execution of high-volume, multi-jurisdiction payroll in Oracle Fusion Payroll across the U.S. and Canada. This role focuses on regular payroll production (semi-monthly and biweekly), off-cycle processing, retro management, exception handling, settlement coordination, and post-payroll corrections-ensuring accurate, compliant, on-time payroll during migration and stabilization.

What You'll Do

1. Execute semi-monthly and biweekly payroll cycles for ~11,500 employees across 45+ U.S. states and 6 Canadian provinces in Oracle Fusion Payroll.
2. Manage end-to-end payroll process steps (calc, validations, prepayments, payments/settlement), ensuring schedules are met.
3. Perform retro event control activities: identify retro impacts, coordinate corrections, and process required manual offsets/adjustments.
4. Triage and resolve pay calc and retro warnings/errors using payroll message reports; coordinate fixes across HR, time, benefits, and finance.
5. Process and coordinate off-cycle payrolls (ACH/instant pay), including rollback requirements, recalculation, and settlement overlap prevention.
6. Perform post-payroll corrections, including rollback/re-run activities when required, and ensure proper audit trail and documentation.
7. Support validations and reconciliations: YTD/QTD reviews, wage base checks, locality/tax validations, and audit support.
8. Maintain runbooks/checklists; contribute to continuous improvement and cross-training to reduce single points of failure.

Basic qualifications

1. 12+ years of payroll experience supporting multi-state U.S. payroll; working knowledge of Canadian payroll/province considerations preferred.
2. Hands-on experience with inhouse payroll systems like Oracle Fusion Payroll oradp or workday(strongly preferred) or another enterprise payroll platform with complex retro/off-cycle processing.
3. Strong knowledge of payroll operations, statutory compliance fundamentals, and payroll controls.
4. Advanced Excel skills; strong reconciliation and analytical skills.
5. Proven ability to operate in time-sensitive, high-accuracy environments.
6. Manage and support payroll data loads and mass updates using HSDL/HDL/EIB, including error resolution and repeatable templates.
7. Partner with Payroll leadership on readiness for expansion to additional countries by building scalable runbooks, controls, and documentation.

Key competencies

1. Extreme attention to detail, ownership, calm under pressure
2. Strong stakeholder communication and issue management
3. Ability to document processes and build repeatable operating rhythms

Preferred qualifications

1. Experience supporting payroll migrations (Workday → Oracle or similar).
2. Experience with payroll integrations (time, HCM, benefits) and resolving upstream/downstream issues.
3. Familiarity with payroll data loads/tools (HSDL/HDL/EIB) in partnership with HRIS.