UKG Project Analyst, Payroll

Role overview

Primary duties

• Collect and document current pain points through extensive engagement with business units, departments, and Pay & Client Services.
• Analyze payroll, scheduling, and time administration processes to identify risks, inefficiencies, and opportunities to standardize and improve service delivery.
• Advise the project team and contribute input toward long-term goals and improvements.
• Identify system-functionality and time-and-pay best-practice improvements, and share findings with the Business Project Lead.
• Build collaborative relationships with clients, leaders, business-unit timekeepers, IT, and Payroll.

Qualifications

• Requires a Payroll Compliance Professional (PCP) designation through the National Payroll Institute and at least five years of progressively responsible payroll experience.
• Experience must include payroll-related projects and time and attendance initiatives.
• Requires business analysis, requirements gathering, and payroll process-improvement experience.
• Requires advanced understanding of workforce management, payroll, time and attendance, and business best practices.
• Experience with PeopleSoft HCM is required; UKG Pro Workforce Management and Telestaff experience is preferred.
• Requires intermediate proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.
• Requires ability to apply collective bargaining agreement requirements and payroll best practices to scheduling and time administration.
• Strong communication, collaboration, relationship-building, analytical, and problem-solving skills are required.
• A completed two-year Business Administration diploma is considered an asset.

Workstyle

• The position may be eligible for work from home as one of several flexible work options, subject to operational requirements, employee suitability, and changing corporate direction.

Pre-employment