HRIS Payroll Lead - Workday Expert

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Miami, FL, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Energy
The Role
Lead and optimize global Workday Payroll implementations and integrations, act as payroll HRIS SME, partner with HR/Finance/IT/vendors, drive testing, releases, security, reporting, mentor HRIS team, and support continuous Workday improvement.
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At World Fuel, our employees are the key to our global success. We are industry leaders due to the innumerable talents of our approximately 5000 strong professional team. Our people thrive in an entrepreneurial and culturally-diverse environment, where innovative thinking, collaboration and efficient execution are highly valued. Our high-performance culture is what allows us to drive sustained growth. Stronger together, we promote an environment where individuals can thrive.
 

 

We're Hiring: HRIS Payroll Lead | Workday Expert

Join World Fuel Services, a global leader in energy distribution and logistics, powering the movement of people, goods, and businesses across air, land, and sea worldwide.

🔗 Learn more:
https://www.world-kinect.com/about-us

🚀 About the Opportunity

We're looking for an experienced HRIS Payroll Lead to join our team and serve as the technical leader for our global Workday Payroll ecosystem.

This is a highly visible, hands-on role where you'll partner with HR, IT, and business stakeholders to design, optimize, and deliver scalable payroll and HR technology solutions.

💼 What You'll Do

✅ Serve as a subject matter expert for Workday Payroll, providing hands-on technical leadership and solution design for complex payroll requirements, cross-functional initiatives and system enhancements.

✅ Lead and optimize payroll functionality within Workday, including configuration, maintenance, and enhancement of the Workday Payroll module for the US and UK, as well as integrations and support for countries using external providers.

✅ Support Agile delivery by contributing to backlog refinement, estimation, sprint planning, execution, and acceptance of work.

✅ Partner with HR, Finance, IT, and external vendors to translate business needs into effective technology solutions.

✅ Drive testing, release management, security controls, reporting, and data integrity initiatives.

✅ Support Workday enhancements, upgrades, and continuous improvement efforts.

✅ Mentor HRIS team members and provide technical leadership on complex projects.

✅ Help shape the future of our HR technology strategy through innovation and best practices.

🎯 What We're Looking For

✅ At least 5 years of experience managing Workday Payroll in a global environment, with demonstrated expertise in payroll integrations, configuration, business process management, security, testing, release management, reporting and third-party vendor interfaces.

✅ Demonstrated experience leading complex HRIS initiatives or workstreams.

✅ Strong understanding of Workday architecture and HR business processes.

✅ Proven experience leading complex HRIS projects and cross-functional initiatives.

✅ Experience with Core HCM, Compensation, Benefits, Talent Management, and Integrations is highly valued.

✅ Agile experience and Workday certifications are a plus.

🌎 Why Join World Kinect?

🌎 Global impact and visibility

🚀 Opportunity to lead enterprise-scale Workday initiatives

🤝 Collaborative, high-performing teams

📈 Career growth and continuous learning opportunities

📢 Let's Connect!

If you're passionate about HR technology, payroll transformation, and delivering world-class Workday solutions, we'd love to connect.

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/carloswfs1/

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World Fuel is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

 

World Kinect Corporation

Skills Required

  • 5+ years of Workday Payroll experience in a global environment
  • Payroll configuration expertise
  • Experience designing and managing integrations (Workday integrations and third-party payroll interfaces)
  • Business Process Management experience within Workday
  • Experience with Workday security controls and role-based access
  • Reporting, testing, and release management experience
  • Proven experience leading complex HRIS projects and cross-functional initiatives
  • Strong understanding of Workday architecture and HR business processes
  • Experience with Core HCM, Compensation, Benefits, Talent Management, and Integrations
  • Agile experience
  • Workday certifications
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The Company
HQ: Miami, FL
5,028 Employees

What We Do

Headquartered in Miami, Florida, World Kinect Corporation (NYSE: WKC) is a leading global energy management company, offering a broad suite of solutions across the energy product spectrum. In addition to our core energy and fuel offerings to customers in the transportation sector, we provide advisory services, sustainability and renewable energy solutions, as well as supply fulfillment for natural gas and power. We continue to focus on advancing the energy transition to lower carbon alternatives through expanding our portfolio of energy solutions and providing customers with greater access to sustainably sourced energy. For more information, visit https://corp.worldkinect.com.

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