Sr Workday Analyst – Core HCM Compensation

Sr Workday Analyst – Core HCM Compensation

Requirements

• 5+ years Workday HCM and Compensation experience.
• 5+ years’ experience configuring Core HCM, Compensation and Absence Management product areas for domestic and international colleagues.
• 4+ years’ experience working on calc fields, complex reports and various configurations in Workday.
• 4+ years’ experience configuring and debugging Business Processes and building solutions in Workday.
• 3+ years’ experience working with HR technology landscape, including cloud computing and mobile technologies.
• 3+ years’ experience working with business to gather requirements, perform fit gap analysis, design solutions, create functional designs, configuring Workday application, performing user acceptance testing, and maintaining the health of the product. Ability to create necessary documentation in each phase.
• 3+ years’ experience generating reports for analysis, data auditing and supporting requests from various business teams.
• 2+ years’ experience collaborating with SaaS vendors to provide timely resolution for defects.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with business and technical partners to support the Workday Core HCM and Compensation functional areas and roadmap, including the established list of global priorities.
• Understands the needs of the business and evaluates Workday capabilities through research and testing.
• Maintains clear and up to date list of key deliverables and timelines, developing plans to achieve those targets and proactively communicating progress to a variety of stakeholders.
• Ensures that the delivered product meets or exceeds the business’ needs and business objectives.
• Supports enhancements, project requests and defects, providing optimal and timely solutions.
• Gathers requirements, business process optimization, fit-gap analysis, functional design, configuration and testing. Creates necessary documentation in each stage.
• Collaborates with key cross-functional partners to maintain transparency, consistency in delivery, and set expectations.
• Actively participates in Workday’s semi-annual release process, engaging with release team on cross-functional initiatives and liaising with Business Leads on critical impacts and upcoming enhancement opportunities. Supports regression testing and guide regression testing teams.
• Awareness of new and planned Workday functionality, actively engaging with the Workday Community to prepare and communicate changes that could impact business.
• Leads the translation of business requirements to technical solutions and creating appropriate timelines.
• Responsible for fit-gap analysis, functional design, configuring the application, user acceptance testing and maintenance of the software solution.
• Maintains up to date documentation in tracking tools.
• Performs and supports user acceptance testing and creates necessary documentation including test plans, test scenarios, test cases and test results.
• Ensures adherence to industry best practice, actively engaging with Workday Community on future releases. Encourages product innovation and alternative ways of approaching business.
• Integrates relevant data and information and apply the findings to positively impact the Workday strategy and share key insights and actions based on data and metrics.
• Challenges partners to think differently regarding HR and Payroll business processes and operational issues act as a thought partner and model creative problem-solving to impact business decisions.
• Generates reports and analytics to support various business needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting HR and Payroll systems for large organizations with non-exempt employees.
• Experience working on other Workday areas including Absence Management.
• Experience supporting international employees.
• Strong organizational, analytical, time management, and problem-solving skills.
• The ability to develop and sustain relationships with business partners and stakeholders, including working with business partners to optimize their business processes.
• A strong customer service orientation.
• The ability to work effectively in a team environment while managing multiple tasks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• A strong work ethic, a self-starter, and be able to be highly productive in a dynamic, collaborative environment.
• Experience with Project Management, Change Management and Communications.