Payroll Operations Analyst

Role Overview

• Conduct payroll activities, analyze and interpret pay rules utilizing Workbrain Online Time and Attendance (OTA), Workday Time Tracking, Workday Payroll, and ServiceNow Case Management including but not limited to: Entering and reviewing timecard data in OTA or Workday Time Tracking.
• Adjusting time entries, pay inputs, or payroll costing allocations.
• Calculating Pay for union employees according to collective bargaining agreements, and all employees according to company policy and legislative requirements.
• Processing special pay requests for relocation, severance, leave of absence, and paid time off.
• Calculating additional payroll-related items, including garnishments, adjustments, pension, etc.
• Resolving any issues with taxes, imputed income, or benefit deductions.
• Initiating pay runs, monitor and audit payrolls.
• Calculating and entering retroactive pay changes.
• Exporting data from OTA for processing in Workday Payroll.
• Research payroll inconsistencies and irregularities to determine root cause and provide resolution.
• Work with cross functional counterparts to understand and resolve issues.
• Become a payroll subject matter expertise to resolve employee issues swiftly and efficiently.
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with process partners and/or other points of escalation to provide research and information to resolve issues.
• Follow and maintain internal control policies, procedures, and compliance with respect to the payroll process.
• Assist with month-end closing and general ledger integration queries to the financial system.
• Prepare journal entries for SAP financial system.
• Calculate pay for non-union employees based on company policies and legislative requirements and union employees according to collective bargaining agreements.
• Resolve complicated inquiries such as payroll taxes, imputed income, or benefit deductions.
• Ability to understand and evaluate reports utilizing Excel functionality (vlookups, index match, pivot tables).
• Process invoices though Ariba and SAP systems.
• Participate in testing of payroll system related to process changes and enhancements.
• Support leadership with other projects and tasks as required.

Requirements

• Experience in payroll operations, managing sensitive and confidential information is required.
• Experience in a shared service, large multi-business unit organization is a plus.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or a related field or equivalent combination of work experience required.
• CPP or FPC certification preferred.
• Must be bilingual. Spanish / English speaking.
• Experience with Workday HR/payroll or other SaaS payroll tools required (SAP or PeopleSoft) with payroll integration and mass data loads (EIB) preferred.
• Knowledge of Microsoft is required, particularly with MS Excel.
• Understanding of US federal and state regulations related to salaries, wages, taxes, benefits, and other payroll related matters required.
• Skilled in process management, improvements, and re-engineering.
• Understanding of Motion Picture collective bargaining agreements and union pension health and welfare preferred.

Tech Stack

• C++
• ServiceNow

Benefits

• career defining opportunities
• thoughtfully curated benefits
• tools to explore and grow into your best selves