Lead Payroll Business Analyst

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)