Senior Payroll Business Analyst, Data & Reporting

About the role

The Senior Payroll Business Analyst, Data & Reporting is a hands-on senior payroll team member and data expert responsible for driving best practices through data management methodology.

Responsibilities

• Own payroll data integrity, end-to-end mapping, reconciliations, and recurring/ ad-hoc reporting for payroll and timekeeping systems
• Design and maintain dashboards and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that surface exceptions, trends, and compliance risks
• Build dashboards, KPIs, reconciliations, and variance analyses to monitor payroll accuracy and Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
• Produce recurring and ad-hoc reports for Payroll, HR, Finance, and Audit
• Operational Support & Issue Resolution: Troubleshoot data and reporting incidents, lead root-cause analysis (RCA), implement fixes, and prevent recurrence
• Own data/reporting-related incident lifecycle
• Systems, Testing & Deployments: Define data requirements for Project work requests (PWRs)/changes, author User Acceptance Testing (UAT) test plans and data scenarios, validate post-deploy data outcomes, and support stabilization
• Configure reporting layers and support integrations (transmit, feeds to GL, timekeeping interfaces)
• Training & Knowledge Transfer: Create training materials, run operational training sessions, and mentor payroll specialists to improve data literacy and self-service reporting
• Continuous Improvement: Identify automation opportunities, simplify processes, and standardize reporting to reduce manual work and errors

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data analytics and/or business intelligence
• 5+ years of experience in data analysis and Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA)
• 5+ years of experience leading stakeholders in analysis of process data, metrics, models and flows to identify root cause of complex problems and development and implementation of preventive or corrective actions