Lead, People Systems – Payroll, Absence and Time-Tracking

🕒 July 29

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 CA$116k - CA$145k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👥 People Operations

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Wealthsimple

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

🛡️ Insurance

💳 Fintech

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $393M Series E - Wealthsimple on 2025-10

Consulting • Insurance • Fintech

Wealthsimple is a Canadian financial technology company that provides consumer banking, investing, and wealth management services. It offers chequing accounts, savings, credit cards, self-directed trading (stocks, ETFs, options), cryptocurrency trading, managed portfolios, tax services, and advisory wealth management for high-net-worth clients. Wealthsimple combines digital-first banking and low-fee investing products aimed at retail customers, along with tools and educational content to support personal finance.

📋 Description

• Configure and maintain Payroll: pay components, earnings and deductions, pay groups, period schedules, and payroll-related business processes • Configure and maintain Absence: time-off plans, accrual rules, eligibility criteria, and leave types • Configure and maintain Time Tracking: time entry templates, validations, work calendars, and overtime calculations • Configure and maintain Core HCM foundations: supervisory organizations, staffing models, job profiles and job/compensation structures, custom organizations, and worker data integrity • Support annual and recurring People cycles in Workday, including compensation reviews, open enrollment configuration, and org restructures (mass supervisory org changes and job catalog updates) • Design, build, and maintain business process definitions in both domains, including condition rules, calculated fields, custom validations, routing and approval logic, and notifications • Partner with the Payroll team to troubleshoot configuration-driven payroll issues, including gross-to-net discrepancies, retro calculations, and off-cycle errors — the Payroll team owns processing; you own the configuration behind it • Bring a strong command of the Workday security model: role-based, user-based, and intersection security groups, domain security policies, business process security policies, and integration system users (ISUs), with sound judgment about when to leverage each as you configure and troubleshoot across domains • Support security and data audits in partnership with the broader team, using Workday delivered and custom audit reports to analyze access patterns, remediate exceptions, and uphold segregation of duties • Perform impact analysis before changes ship, including how HCM and security changes ripple into payroll, absence, and time data

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience as a Workday Business Systems Analyst, with demonstrated expertise in system configuration, testing, and implementation • Workday Pro accreditations or Workday partner certifications in HCM, Payroll, Absence, Time Tracking • Exposure to Workday Prism Analytics, Extend, or advanced reporting beyond standard report writer • Experience applying AI tools to HRIS or People operations work, or strong interest in building that muscle • Have deep hands-on working knowledge of Workday Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking (PATT) configuration and design, business process configuration, and Security • Have hands-on working knowledge of Workday Core HCM • Have worked in a fast-paced, high-growth environment and know how to flex between roles • Possess strong technical skills including understanding of Workday architecture, security models, and integration methodologies • Have experience with full lifecycle Workday implementations and/or significant module expansions • Are intellectually curious, you ask "why" before "how," explore root causes rather than symptoms, and stay current on Workday and adjacent HR tech because you want to, not because you have to • Approach problems with creativity, comfortable looking past the standard or obvious solution to find an answer that actually fits the business • Treat HR data security and privacy as a non-negotiable foundation in everything you build and maintain • Excel at building relationships and communicating effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels • Are detail-oriented with strong documentation skills and a commitment to process excellence • Have a track record of managing multiple competing priorities, with a bias toward flexibility and impact • Have a collaborative mindset and willingness to pick up slack even if it goes outside your job description

🏖️ Benefits

• Top-tier health benefits and life insurance • Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business • 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days per year • 90 days away: work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year • Employee resource groups, including Rainbow (2SLGBTQ), Women of WS, and Black at WS • Hybrid team with over 1,500 employees across North America