Workday Payroll Tester

Company : James Gray Associates

Job Type : Contract

Remote / Work from Home

Number of Applicants

000+

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Job Description - Workday Payroll Tester

Workday Payroll Tester - ASAP Start - 3 months - Day rate contract

This role requires hands-on Workday Payroll testing experience and strong knowledge of UK and ROI payroll processes, statutory requirements, and payroll integrations.

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.

Required Skills & Experience
Essential 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 kins, 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.

Preferred:

Experience with Workday Payroll configuration and troubleshooting.
Knowledge of BACS / SEPA payment file processing.

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JGA are dedicated to delivering the best possible candidate experience. Due to the high volume of applications, we regret that we are not always able to respond to every individual applicant. If your application is shortlisted, a member of our team will be in touch. Thank you for your understanding.

JGA Recruitment Group Ltd ("We") are committed to equality of opportunity for all applications regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. We strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply.

We are also committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We are a specialist Payroll and HR recruitment agency and recruitment business as defined in the Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 (our business).These statements together with our privacy notices set out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.

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