Senior Payroll Data Migration Specialist, Workday
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Senior Workday payroll migration specialist coordinating multi-country data migrations for Spyrosoft, a software engineering company. Ensuring accurate, compliant payroll data through cleansing, ETL, reconciliation, and validation.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinate payroll data migration activities across multiple countries, ensuring alignment with the global migration methodology
- Ensure migration documentation, deliverables, and supporting evidence are complete, consistent, and traceable
- Consolidate migration progress, track key milestones, and provide status updates across participating countries
- Assess migration readiness, identify potential risks, and provide recommendations to the Global Project Manager and Programme Manager
- Define and oversee data cleansing strategies to ensure data quality and migration readiness
- Monitor Extraction, Transformation & Loading (ETL) processes from legacy HR/payroll systems into the target environment
- Establish reconciliation frameworks to validate the accuracy and completeness of migrated data
- Perform or coordinate payroll data reconciliations, including headcount, salary totals, tax configurations, and other critical payroll elements
- Collaborate with international stakeholders, local country teams, and technical teams to resolve migration-related issues
- Ensure compliance with data protection, confidentiality, and security requirements when handling sensitive employee information
Requirements:
- Hands-on experience with Workday – mandatory
- Business-fluent English, both written and spoken
- Proven experience in complex, preferably international, data migration projects
- Strong understanding of HR and payroll data structures, processes, and dependencies
- Practical experience with data mapping, data cleansing, data validation, and reconciliation
- Good understanding of ETL processes and data migration methodologies
- Experience in stakeholder coordination and project management
- Ability to work effectively with international teams and country-level stakeholders
- Understanding of data protection and security principles related to sensitive personnel and payroll data
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a global project environment
- Previous experience in global Workday implementations or payroll transformation programmes (nice to have)
- Experience coordinating multi-country payroll migrations (nice to have)
- Familiarity with payroll compliance requirements across different countries (nice to have)
- Experience with migration readiness assessments, cutover planning, and post-migration validation (nice to have)


















