TEKsystems is a leading provider of business and technology services that helps clients activate ideas and solutions. The Lead Payroll Business Analyst serves as a strategic execution partner within Payroll Operations, leading audits, driving process improvements, and managing projects to ensure compliance and operational maturity.
Responsibilities:
- Help lead and coordinate payroll audit and compliance initiatives, including process reviews, control assessments, and remediation tracking, in partnership with Payroll leadership and key stakeholders
- Drive process improvement efforts across payroll operations to improve accuracy, compliance, and scalability
- Support payroll compliance reviews related to federal, state, and local regulations, internal controls, and audit readiness
- Assist with document and maintain process flows, controls, and SOPs to support consistency, transparency, and operational maturity
- Own and manage internal payroll projects and initiatives end to end, including scope definition, timelines, dependencies, risk tracking, and execution
- Partner with Payroll leadership to prioritize initiatives and ensure alignment with strategic payroll objectives
- Flex across initiatives as business needs evolve, providing hands on support where needed to ensure successful delivery
- Develop and deliver weekly status reporting for payroll initiatives, audits, and operational priorities, clearly communicating progress, risks, and next steps
- Support leadership with slide design, storytelling, and visual reporting to effectively communicate payroll initiatives and outcomes
- Partner with payroll teams to support data preparation, analysis, and reporting needed for audits, leadership reviews, and operational decision making
- Create and maintain Excel based reporting, trackers, and analytical tools to support payroll initiatives and immediate reporting needs
- Leverage payroll knowledge and analytical skills to identify trends, risks, and insights that inform leadership decisions
- Act as a payroll knowledge resource to support teams during audits, projects, and process changes, along with hands on support to payroll leadership and teams during peak periods, audits, or initiatives
- Partner cross functionally with HR, Finance, Tax, Benefits, IT, and vendors to support payroll initiatives and information requests
- Assist with invoice management, supporting tracking, validation, and issue resolution as needed
- Flex across payroll workstreams based on immediate business needs — this role is expected to shift focus as priorities change
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
- 6-8 years of payroll experience in a multi-state, high-volume environment required
- Demonstrated experience leading payroll audits, process improvement initiatives, or cross functional projects
- Strong working knowledge of payroll systems and payroll operations (ADP experience preferred)