Summary: The Workday Payroll Tester role involves executing comprehensive payroll testing within the Workday system, focusing on UK and ROI payroll processes and compliance. The position requires hands-on experience in payroll testing, validation, and integration, ensuring accurate payroll outputs and statutory compliance. The tester will collaborate with various teams to resolve discrepancies and maintain payroll accuracy. This is a day rate contract position with an immediate start for a duration of three months.

Key Responsibilities:

• Execute end-to-end payroll testing in Workday, including standard payroll runs, adjustments, statutory payments and reporting and obtain sign off from the Business Lead
• Validate gross-to-net payroll calculations, deductions, and tax compliance.
• Perform UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and system integration testing (SIT) for payroll processes.
• Test payroll-related integrations with Workday, HMRC RTI (FPS & EPS), ROS submissions for ROI, pension providers, third party payroll and financial systems.
• Validate employee records, tax codes, NI categories, and pay elements.
• Execute leavers' payroll processing, including final payments and P45 generation.
• Ensure accurate payroll reconciliation by comparing Workday payroll outputs with Legacy payroll systems.
• Support parallel payroll testing, identifying discrepancies and working with teams to resolve issues.
• Log, track, and escalate defects in the test management system.
• Collaborate with Payroll, HR, Finance, and IT teams to ensure payroll accuracy and compliance.

Key Skills:

• Strong experience with Workday UK Payroll testing and validation.
• Knowledge of UK payroll legislation, including tax, NI, statutory payments (SSP, SMP, SPP), and pensions.
• Knowledge of ROI payroll legislation, including tax, benefits in kind, statutory payments, and pensions.
• Experience executing payroll parallel runs and payroll reconciliations.
• Hands-on experience with RTI (Real-Time Information) reporting to HMRC.
• Familiarity with pension auto-enrolment and deductions.
• Experience testing payroll integrations with Workday, including finance, HR, and external systems.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Experience logging and managing defects in test management tools.
• Experience with Workday Payroll configuration and troubleshooting (preferred).
• Knowledge of BACS/SEPA payment file processing (preferred).

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

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