# Workday Systems Payroll- HCM Manager

**Company**: Carta
**Location**: San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; Seattle, WA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $160,000 - $190,000 in New York and San Francisco
$153,000 - $180,000 in Seattle
**Category**: Human Resources
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Job Overview

As a Workday Systems Payroll- HCM Manager at Carta, you will shape how 2,000 employees experience Workday across the globe, ensuring pay is accurate, compliant, and delivered without friction.

## Responsibilities

- Own Payroll Configuration: Lead the configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of the Workday Payroll module, ensuring accurate and compliant calculations, earnings, deductions, and pay results every pay cycle.

- Build Scalable Integration: Design payroll configuration that integrates cleanly and scalably with Core HCM, Time Tracking, Absence, Compensation, and Benefits, partnering with HRIS and Integrations teams as needed.

- Own the Stakeholder Relationship: Serve as the primary liaison between Payroll and People teams, owning the payroll stakeholder relationship and translating business needs into Workday configuration.

- Anchor in Core HCM: Maintain a strong working knowledge of Core HCM , organizations, business processes, and staffing , to ensure Payroll decisions align with the broader HCM foundation.

- Drive Testing & Releases: Lead payroll-impact analysis, regression testing, and validation for Workday releases and configuration changes before they reach production.

- Troubleshoot & Resolve: Serve as the escalation point for payroll configuration issues, partnering with Payroll Operations to diagnose root causes and implement fixes.

- Document & Govern: Maintain clear configuration documentation and governance practices so payroll setup stays auditable, consistent, and easy to hand off.

## Requirements

- 6-8+ years of hands-on Workday Payroll configuration experience.

- Strong background in Core HCM, including organizations, staffing, and business process configuration.

- Solid understanding of payroll fundamentals: earnings, deductions, tax setup, and pay calculation.

- Experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders, especially the People/HR team, to translate business needs into system configuration.

- Comfortable managing configuration changes through testing, validation, and release cycles.

- Strong attention to detail and a compliance-first mindset.

- Proficient in core payroll mechanisms, including earning and deduction setups, tax configurations, and pay calculations.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Hands-on experience with Time Tracking and/or Absence Management configuration.

- Exposure to Workday integrations (EIB, Core Connectors) and how Payroll configuration feeds downstream systems.

## Salary

- $160,000 - $190,000 in New York and San Francisco.

- $153,000 - $180,000 in Seattle.

## Skills

### Required
- Workday Payroll
- Core HCM
- Payroll configuration
- Time Tracking
- Absence Management

### Nice to have
- Workday integrations
- EIB
- Core Connectors

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