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Posted May 27, 2026

Payroll Associate Manager

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Job Description: • Work in a team to implement and configure enterprise-scale Workday solutions for our global customer base. • Build relationships with customers, shaping and delivering solutions aligned to customer needs. • Provide excellent guidance to customers, understanding their business and requirements. • Support junior members of the team and share your knowledge with them. Requirements: • At least 2-3 years of Workday Payroll implementation experience. • At least 2 years configuring Workday Payroll implementation from E2E with the last 3 years. • Certification in Workday United States Payroll. • The ability to build complex payroll calculations. • Experience with multiple positions. • Experience with implementing multiple FEIN’s. • Strong understanding of state taxes, local taxes, and FLSA calculations. • An understanding of Workday Payroll, US Payroll, Time Tracking and Absence products and the interdependencies with Benefits, Time Tracking and Absence as well as other cross functional capabilities. • Experience with Payroll regulatory requirements (Tax, Garnishments, Common Pay Master), retirement benefits (401K etc.), payroll processing, Unions/Collective Bargaining Agreements and payroll accounting. • Excellent customer focus, able to assess customer needs, build relationships and manage customer expectations. • Strong communicator, able to communicate with customers and colleagues with impact, credibility and empathy, including in a remote working situation. • Sound ability to formally present to senior Client audiences. • Strong commercial awareness and full understanding of project and business dynamics. • Broad business and technology understanding and a good awareness of industry trends in either Human Resource management, Financials or Enterprise Resource Planning or Payroll. • Ability to work to tight deadlines and make sensible decisions under pressure taking a balanced view of Customer demands and Kainos commercials. • Ability to widen and maintain a network of external contacts. • Strong consulting skills e.g. presenting, leading workshops, demonstrating and explaining complex functionality or solutions to customers. • Willing to participate in PATT team internal discussions and help where possible. • Willing and able to act as a role model within the capability and mentor and/or line manage more junior consultants. • Willing to assist AMS with questions related to your subject area. • Able to implement improvements in tools and/or processes to help the practice. • Commercial understanding of utilization within a services organization and the importance of these targets. • Able to rotate through various Workday delivery services. • Able, if required, to travel to customer sites in the same region (minimal out of region travel may also be required). Benefits: • Kainos embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace Apply tot his job Apply To this Job