Workday Systems Payroll- HCM Manager

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.