Lokesh Jatta
Cincinnati
Summary
Workday HRIS and Payroll Specialist with over 4 years of experience in payroll processing, workforce management, and compliance reporting. Expertise in configuring Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence Management, ensuring accurate payroll and compliance with labor laws. Proven track record in resolving discrepancies, optimizing workforce planning, and enhancing payroll accuracy. Strong analytical skills with experience in creating complex reports and dashboards to support data-driven decision-making.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Workday Payroll & Time Tracking Specialist
Answer Financial
CA
06.2024 - Current
- Managed and maintained Workday Payroll & Time Tracking modules, ensuring seamless workforce management and payroll accuracy
- Resolved complex time data and workforce scheduling issues, ensuring compliance with labor regulations and company policies
- Processed bi-weekly payroll, handling multi-state taxation, retroactive adjustments, bonus taxation, and high-visibility payroll transactions
- Conducted payroll audits to validate data integrity, compliance, and accurate time-tracking records
- Developed custom reports and dashboards to track time data, payroll accuracy, and workforce attendance
- Collaborated with HR and IT teams to optimize time tracking workflows, absence management, and workforce scheduling
- Ensured data integrity, performed audits, and resolved discrepancies with Workday
- Provided support for steady state processes such as benefit enrollment processes, payroll processing and compliance reporting
- Implemented best practices in Workday benefits, including open enrollment, plan configurations and vendor integrations
- Optimized payroll processes, ensuring compliance with labor laws and tax regulations
- Partnered with HR and Finance teams to enhance operations and administration
- Generated reports related to payroll accuracy, benefits enrollment, deductions, and compliance
- Developed, modified and maintained workday reports and dashboards to support HR and Finance teams
- Supported data-driven decision-making by providing insights from Workday Reports
- Acted as a Workday SME and collaborated with HR, Benefits, Payroll, IT and Finance teams
- Led Workday implementation, enhancement, and upgrade projects for Benefits and payroll
- Documented system configurations, business processes, and end-user training materials
- Conducted end-user training and provided ongoing support for Workday Users in payroll and benefits administration
- Provided update policies and controls according to current process while ensuring compliance under ITGC/ITAC
- Identified and reported any compliance issues or violations and work with the appropriate teams to resolve them
- Performed tasks in support of contingent Worker profile management in Workday
- Responsible for processing bi-weekly payroll timely and in compliance with all federal, state and local regulations
- Calculated and processed complex and high-visibility transactions, including multi-state adjustments, bonus taxation and retroactive adjustments
- Analyzed complex payroll issues, developed solutions while communicating with teams and internal stakeholders
Workday HRIS Consultant
DXC Technology Private Limited
India
05.2021 - 12.2023
- Configured and maintained the Workday System, specifically the recruiting and compensation modules, to align with organizational requirements and best practices
- Configured and customized Workday to align with organization’s evolving needs and business requirements
- Configured and optimized Workday Time & Absence, Payroll, and Workforce Scheduling to meet evolving business needs
- Monitored and resolved payroll discrepancies, ensuring accurate time tracking and compliance with labor laws
- Partnered with HR and Payroll teams to define business requirements, ensuring seamless payroll processing
- Designed custom payroll reports for tracking time data accuracy, employee attendance, and workforce management insights
- Assisted in HR Shared Services by troubleshooting timekeeping issues, payroll disputes, and compliance violations
- Led system testing for Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence Management enhancements
- Reviewed and followed-up with release summaries, facilitate breakout sessions with COEs, and managed release testing
- Utilized a strong knowledge of the company’s business systems, industry standards/trends and best practices to identify opportunities to improve business processes
- Served as the HRIS partner supporting
- Updated about current trends in HRMS, focusing on product/service development, delivery, and support
- Applied relevant technologies to improve system effectiveness
- Supported ad-hoc reporting requests across the organization
- Served as subject matter expert, providing technical support and guidance to system end users
- Resolved HRIS Tickets in a timely manner, ensuring smooth system operations
- Evaluated and maintained various Workday modules, including performance & talent, payroll, benefits, time & absence, HCM reporting, and dashboards
- Collaborated with HR and Stakeholders to gather business requirements and translate them into effective system configurations and enhancement
Workday Integration Analyst
Bruce Power Innovation
India
03.2019 - 04.2021
- Participated in the ongoing requirements gathering, designing, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of configuration for new integration functionality and enhancement between workday and other systems using Workday studio, EIB, Workday Webs Services, API and other integration tools
- Communicated with third-party vendors regarding file transfers, specifications, and issue resolution
- Troubleshooted and resolved production support issues and resolved defects timely
- Proficient with XML, Xpath and XSLT
- Designed workflows to solve business and technical problems
- Developed and managed Workday Payroll & Time Tracking integrations using EIB, PECI, PICOF, and Core Connectors
- Worked closely with third-party payroll vendors to ensure accurate workforce data transfer and payroll processing
- Designed custom reports and dashboards for tracking time & attendance trends, payroll audits, and compliance metrics
- Conducted payroll variance analysis and provided workforce planning insights for HR and Finance teams
- Trained as a technical system matter expert (SME) for reporting and integration development
- Assisted with software implementation and upgrades as necessary
- Configured audit reporting to monitor and maintain data integrity
- Analyzed requests and prepared reports for various surveys, publications, internal project needs and routine delivery of key HR metrics
- Communicated about complex, technical information concisely with non-technical personnel
- Consulted with various firm stakeholders to interpret data results and formulated narratives which support the data for various internal and external requests
- Assisted with data management and reporting of EEO, AAP and other HR Compliance requirements
- Identified opportunities to reduce cycle times and streamlined report
Education
Masters - Information Technology
Valparaiso University
USA05.2024
Skills
- Payroll Processing
- Workforce Scheduling
- Time Data Integrity
- Multi-State Payroll
- Retroactive Adjustments
- Labor Law Compliance
- Payroll Audits
- ITGC/ITAC Standards
- SOC Reporting
- Time & Attendance
- Leave Management
- Workforce Analytics
- EIB
- Studio
- PECI
- PICOF
- Custom Reports
- Calculated Fields
- Workday
- ADP
- Kronos
- Microsoft Excel (VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables)
- Jira
- ServiceNow
Timeline
Workday Payroll & Time Tracking Specialist
Answer Financial
06.2024 - Current
Workday HRIS Consultant
DXC Technology Private Limited
05.2021 - 12.2023
Workday Integration Analyst
Bruce Power Innovation
03.2019 - 04.2021
Masters - Information Technology
Valparaiso University
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