Senior Workday Configuration Analyst – HCM

Role Overview

• Provides integral support to the Human Resources and Payroll organizations for their technology needs collaborating with HR Business Partners, COEs and HR Shared Services across all business segments.
• Establishes cross-functional relationships throughout HR Technology and Human Resources to ensure solutions and initiatives are effectively designed and implemented.
• Works with dedication and motivation with colleague satisfaction as key goal.
• Collaborates with business and technical partners to support the Workday Core HCM functional area 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.
• Ensure 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, creating 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.
• 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.
• 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 processes and operational issues; acting as a thought partner and modeling creative problem-solving to impact business decisions.
• Generate reports and analytics to support various business needs.

Requirements

• 5+ years' experience configuring the Core HCM product area for domestic and international colleagues.
• 4+ years' experience with calculated fields, complex reports and various configurations in Workday.
• 4+ years' experience configuring, maintaining 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.
• 2+ years' experience collaborating with SaaS vendors to provide timely resolution for defects.

Tech Stack

• Cloud

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision coverage
• paid time off
• retirement savings options
• wellness programs