Workday Payroll Manager

Vistra Corp•Irving, TX

About The Position

The Payroll Manager is responsible for the end-to-end oversight and governance of Vistra’s payroll operations processed in Workday. This role ensures payroll is executed accurately, timely, and is in full compliance with federal, state, and local regulations while maintaining strong internal controls, audit readiness, and data integrity. The Payroll Manager owns payroll process design, compliance, controls, escalations, and outcomes, and serves as a key partner to HR, Planning, Accounting, and Tax teams.

Requirements

At least two (2) years of experience leading
10+ years of progressive experience in Payroll, HR Operations or HR systems
Experience operating in a Workday Payroll environment (required)
Proven experience leading or supporting payroll process changes, system enhancements, testing, or implementations
Experience leading highly effective teams
Experience gained through college degree programs and/or certifications is applicable to above skills
Minimum: High School Diploma

Nice To Haves

Payroll certifications are preferred but not required

Responsibilities

Develop, maintain, enforce the full end-to-end payroll processing cycle, ensuring its accurate and timely processing within the Workday platform
Approve payroll results prior to finalization and ensure appropriate funding authorization
Provide Tier 3 escalation support for complex payroll issues and policy interpretation
Ensure compliance with all federal, state, and local payroll laws and regulations
Oversee payroll tax accuracy and support tax filing, reconciliation and issue resolution
Support internal and external audits and ensure timely implementation of audit recommendations
Proactively identify and mitigate payroll-related risks
Serve as key partner to HR, Planning, Accounting and Tax tams on payroll impacts related to compensation, benefits, and workforce changes
Ensure timely and accurate GL interfaces, reconciliations, and payroll funding
Drive process standardization, automation, and continuous improvement within Workday Payroll module
Recommend, review and approve payroll changes and system enhancements
Lead payroll testing activities related to system updates, regulatory changes, and configuration changes.
Produce and review payroll reporting and analyses
Monitor payroll performance and identify trends, issues, and improvement opportunities
Develops mutually agreed upon Vendor and HR Services delivery goals, objectives, expectations and outcomes related to payroll processing, time keeping, and tax compliance
Effectively lead a team of payroll analysts/ specialist to accomplish payroll team objectives.