Senior Payroll Analyst

Join Okta, a leading identity and access management company, as a Senior Payroll Analyst. In this role, you will be responsible for executing accurate and timely semi-monthly payroll operations across multiple US states for over 5,000 employees. You will also support broader AMER entities, including Canada, Argentina, Mexico, and Uruguay. As a subject matter expert in payroll processing, multi-state tax compliance, and benefit/equity reconciliations, you will drive operational excellence, implement workflow automations, and provide exceptional support to our growing employee base.

End-to-End Payroll Operations: Own and execute complex bi-weekly multi-state US payroll cycles, ensuring accurate calculations for base salary, variable compensation, retro adjustments, and termination payouts.

Responsibilities

• Tax & Statutory Compliance: Ensure strict adherence to federal, state, and local payroll tax regulations. Manage multi-state tax setups, resolve tax agency notices, and support year-end W-2 reconciliation and reporting.
• Process Automation & Efficiency: Identify opportunities to optimize workflows; develop and maintain automated reporting and reconciliation models using advanced Excel and data tools.

Requirements

Technical & System Expertise

• Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills; ability to clearly explain complex compensation and tax matters to employees and leadership
• Payroll & Tax Knowledge: In-depth understanding of US labor laws, FLSA classifications, multi-state withholding, reciprocal agreements, and payroll accounting principles (GL mapping, accruals, account reconciliations)
• Problem Solving & Autonomy: Strong analytical mindset with the ability to independently investigate payroll discrepancies, reconcile large datasets, and handle ambiguous scenarios
• Experience: 5+ years of progressive, end-to-end multi-state US payroll experience, ideally within a high-growth SaaS, tech, or large public enterprise environment

Advanced proficiency with Workday Payroll and Workday HCM

• Certifications: Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) or equivalent payroll accreditation is preferred
• Advanced Excel skills (VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, nested logic, pivot tables). Experience with Alteryx or other automation tools is a strong plus

Pay

USD 100,000 - 138,000

Benefits

• Deep experience with payroll vendor reporting tools, ticketing systems (e.g., ServiceNow), and time-tracking systems