Senior Workday Compensation Analyst - onsite job

About the role

This role is onsite in Santa Clara, CA or Austin, TX. The position is for a Senior Workday Compensation Analyst.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Workday Advanced Compensation subject matter expert, leading design, configuration, and testing of compensation processes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements to deliver scalable, technology-driven outcomes, ensuring downstream consistency and data integrity.
• Ensure HR processes are thoughtfully designed, fully documented, and consistently executed across all HR systems through close collaboration with HR and HRIT.
• Manage the intake, scoping, and sizing of stakeholder requested technology enhancements through JIRA, ensuring successful execution of approved changes.
• Evaluate out-of-the-box functionality against business requirements to identify optimal solutions to meet those needs.
• Responsible for analyzing and testing new Workday features, supporting release planning, and taking ownership of unit, regression, pre-launch testing, and sign-off.
• Demonstrate a continuous improvement mindset, proactively identifying and recommending improvements to processes, technology, and data quality.
• Provide overall project management oversight for assigned HR system initiatives, leveraging strong planning, execution, and stakeholder management skills.
• Leverage HR and technical expertise to provide consultative guidance, influence solution design, and drive projects from concept through successful implementation.
• Ensure compliance with legal, security, and data governance standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree preferred in Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science, or Engineering
• Over 7+ years of experience as Workday functional expert in Advanced Compensation
• Strong communication skills, high attention to detail, and the ability to work both independently and in a collaborative team environment
• Ability to learn quickly and perform effectively under tight deadlines; a self-starter who takes initiative and assumes full ownership and accountability
• Strong capability to manage competing priorities in high-demand environment, navigate ambiguous directives, and analyze complex challenges to drive sound solutions

Preferred Skills, Knowledge, Experience

• Ability to learn quickly and perform effectively under tight deadlines; a self-starter who takes initiative and assumes full ownership and accountability
• Strong capability to manage competing priorities in high-demand environment, navigate ambiguous directives, and analyze complex challenges to drive sound solutions

Additional Information

• Time Type: Full time
• Employee Type: Assignee / Regular
• Travel: Yes, 10% of the Time
• Relocation Eligible: No