Technical Payroll Analyst

Cloudscouts Software SolutionsNew York, New York

$55+ / hour

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Overview

Career level

Senior-level

Remote

Hybrid remote

Compensation

$55+/hour

Job Description

BA or Technical Payroll Analyst

Other titles: Business analyst, Technical analyst, Payroll analyst, Payroll Systems analyst, etc.

Hybrid 50%

Location: NY,NY

Contract: 9 months (possible extension based on client need)

The initiative for this project is to modernize and maintain payroll systems to ensure accurate and compliant processing of employee compensation and tax documentation. The Business Analyst will support key HR Payroll applications, focusing on implementing tax updates and regulatory changes, improving system reliability and data accuracy through rigorous testing and simulation, and translating business needs into actionable technical solutions. The role also ensures compliance with labor laws and contractual obligations, contributing to data integrity, transparency, and accountability in payroll operations. Additionally, the initiative promotes interoperability across related HR and timekeeping systems.

Top skills:

Business Analysis - experience analyzing and documenting business requirements, authoring functional and technical specifications, and translating them into actionable development tasks.
Payroll Systems - experience supporting Payroll (PMS) and W2 Amendment (W2AM) applications
Testing/QA - experience support both system and user acceptance testing
Mainframe experience (DB2, Cobol)

Job Description

Analyze and document business requirements, author functional specifications, review functional

specifications with business owners for approval, and review functional specifications with technical staff

during transition to technical design and coding phases of the project.

Author technical specifications for application changes and review technical specifications with staff

during the transition to technical design and coding phases of the project.

Author specifications for modifications to existing PMS programs to include new tax parameters on

transactional and pay calc based reports.

Work with technical analysts to research problems to find and implement solutions.

Supplement the activities of the FISA-OPA Integrated System Test team as necessary. The analyst will

be expected to author test cases, execute test cases, and document the results.

Supplement the activities of the end users by coordinating end user acceptance test activities or performing

user acceptance testing on their behalf, or both.

Run simulations of the business event processing to ensure that software modifications have not

introduced errors into the processes.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

Previous experience working with an enterprise wide, large-scale environment.

Experience Implementing Tax updates in a government or civil service environment.

Excellent understanding of systems development lifecycle methodologies.

Excellent communication (oral and written), interpersonal, and organizational skills required.

Strong MS Office 2010 and later; including Visio, Excel, Project, and Access required.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience and knowledge of PMS and PPMS (payroll processes), NYCAPS (personnel), CityTime

(timekeeping) and CHRMS canned reports and Ad Hoc facility.

Extensive knowledge of Fair Labor and Standards Act (FLSA) Overtime processing rules.

Extensive knowledge of contractual overtime processing rules.

Experience with application configuration design and set-up.

Knowledge and experience in IBM Mainframe environments, QMF, SQL, MS SQL Server.

Understanding of relational databases (e.g. DB2).

Proficiency running back-end/database queries for data analysis (DB2 on Mainframe).

Clearly document and explain problems and to work with others to resolve software defects while ensuring

technical compatibility and end user satisfaction.

Ability to demonstrate the ability to plan, manage time according to schedules, and status reporting.

Flexible work from home options available.

Compensation: $55.00 per hour

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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