Salary: $56.23 - $65.54 Hourly
Location : Seattle Municipal Tower, 700 5th Ave., Seattle, WA
Job Type: Classified Civil Service, Regular, Full-Time
Remote Employment: Flexible/Hybrid
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Department: City Finance
Opening Date: 09/08/2026
Closing Date: 9/22/2026 4:00 PM Pacific

Position Description
The OCF is seeking to hire a Senior Management Analyst-Payroll (Sr. MSA) in Payroll serves as the City's lead functional expert for Workday Time Tracking, Absence, and Payroll, driving enterprise-wide configuration, governance, and operational reliability. This position is responsible for evaluating system performance, interpreting complex labor contracts affecting pay, coordinating cross department payroll operations, and ensuring timely, accurate, compliant compensation for City employees.

This role provides advanced functional analysis, leads design and testing for Workday updates, manages enterprise payroll, time and attendance and absence inputs for configuration, and partners closely with HR, Payroll, ITD, and departmental stakeholders across the organization. It provides influential leadership, training, and project guidance across decentralized teams and plays a critical role in maintaining a stable, audit ready Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) environment.
Job Responsibilities
• Lead strategic system configuration, governance, and performance evaluations for Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, Absence, and Compensation, ensuring alignment with policy, labor standards, and compliance requirements.
• Translate complex labor contract requirements into scalable, compliant system configurations while overseeing business processes, integrations, retro processing, audit controls, and payroll-related EIB data accuracy.
• Direct requirements gathering, prototyping, analytics-driven performance reviews, and testing governance for Workday configuration updates, releases, and weekly service changes to enhance usability, reliability, and efficiency.
• Conduct root-cause analysis and apply advanced reporting and analytics to detect anomalies, identify trends, support audits, and drive system improvements across payroll and HCM functions.
• Lead cross-functional solution design, stakeholder alignment, and citywide readiness efforts through coordination with HR, Payroll, Information Technology (ITD), Workday Subject Matter Expert (SMEs), developers, reporting analysts, and privacy/security teams.
• Provide clear communication, operational continuity, and issue resolution for decentralized departmental payroll teams while maintaining documentation standards and serving as backup support for payroll staff and leadership.

Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in business, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3 years advanced experience supporting or configuring Workday Payroll, Time Tracking or Absence.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex analysis, testing, or configuration work in a large organization.
• Experience interpreting labor or complex contract pay impacting rules, pay policies, or compliance requirements.
• Robust analytical and problem-solving skills using reporting tools or data analysis.
• Experience coordinating cross functional work in IT, HR, payroll, or financial environments.

(Or a combination of education and/or training and/or experience which provides an equivalent background required to perform the work of the class.)

While not required, the desired qualifications below reflect the experience, skills, and abilities that support effective performance in this role.

• Workday HCM certification(s) or equivalent experience.
• Experience supporting public-sector payroll operations and process development and mapping.
• Experience with multi-union environments and complex labor contract interpretation.
• Familiarity with enterprise testing governance or release management.
• Experience developing Workday dashboards, custom reports, or Enterprise Interface Builder (EIBs).

Additional Information
PAY
This civil-service position is classified as a Management Systems Analyst, Senior (Sr. MSA). The full pay range for this step-progression position is $56.23 to $65.54 per hour. New employees begin at Step 1 of the pay progression, which is $56.23 hourly. Current City employees' starting rate of pay will be based on Personnel Rules regarding promotions.
Work Environment

This position offers the flexibility of a hybrid work schedule . Employees are expected to be in-office three days per week. Individual schedules will be based on agreement between the employee and their supervisor and are subject to change. Collaborative, inclusive team environment.
Application Process:

Applications are reviewed after the posting closes. You must submit the following items to be considered for this position no later than 4:00pm Pacific Time on the scheduled closed date.

1. Completed NEOGOV online application.
2. Cover letter describing how your skills and experience align with the stated job responsibilities and qualifications.
3. Current resume indicating relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and education.

Your application may be rejected as incomplete if you do not include the relevant information in the application. Cover letters and/or resumes are not accepted in lieu of a completed application. Applications and/or Supplemental Questionnaires that state "see my resume" or "see my personnel file" are considered incomplete and will not be accepted.
PLEASE NOTE: This job advertisement is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.