Sr Business Analyst Workday

About the role

The Sr. Workday Analyst acts as a strategic subject matter expert, responsible for the ongoing support, configuration, and optimization of the organization's Workday platform to ensure seamless alignment with evolving business priorities and organizational objectives.

Responsibilities

• Strategic subject matter expert (SME) for Workday functionality, configuration, and best practices.
• Owns ongoing functional design. Collaborate with IT on deployment, and maintenance of the Workday platform, including business processes, workflows, approvals, notifications, and master data values (e.g., job profiles, roles, locations).
• Provides day-to-day end-user support, troubleshooting, and technical guidance.
• Configure, test, validate, and implement system changes, enhancements, and new modules/features.
• Maintain system security roles and permissions, ensuring appropriate access and compliance with data privacy and protection standards.
• Manage system security roles and permissions, ensuring appropriate access and compliance with data privacy and protection standards.
• Lead governance processes and maintain accountability for data governance and system compliance.
• Partners with HR, Payroll, Finance, IT, and other stakeholders to document business requirements and collaborate with IT to translate into technical solutions.
• Support change management initiatives and ensure system alignment with organizational needs and employee experience goals.
• Build and maintain complex reports to analyze HR data, identify trends, risks, and opportunities for process improvement.
• Contribute to the development of actionable HR insights that enhance engagement and business performance.
• Acts as a consultative partner to HR Business Partners, COEs, and functional leaders.
• Leads Workday-related projects, road mapping exercises and resource planning to continuously improve service delivery and system capabilities.
• Stays current with Workday releases and HR technology trends. Evaluate new functionality to identify opportunities for innovation and improved system usage.
• Drive deployment of feature releases and system maintenance to meet evolving business requirements.
• Consistently models the Company values and expected behaviors.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science (B.S) HRIS or Related Field Required.
• 5+ years Workday experience, including system administration, configuration, reporting, and module expertise (e.g. Core HCM, Benefits, Compensation, Payroll, Talent, Learning, Expense, Safety, Time Tracking, Absence Managment).
• Proven experience across the Workday implementation lifecycle (design, build, testing, deployment) and business process configuration.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot system issues and deliver effective solutions.
• Excellent cross-functional communication and interpersonal skills to engage and translate technical concepts for diverse audiences.
• High attention to detail, accuracy, and commitment to data integrity and confidentiality.
• Able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment and deliver timely resolutions.
• Experience with enterprise HR or Financials applications and system integrations.
• Demonstrated ability to support change management and drive continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• High level of integrity, discretion, and confidentiality.
• Workday Certifications (e.g. Core HCM, Reporting, Security) and analytics platform certifications (e.g. Tableau, Power BI) are a plus.

Skills

• Strategic thinking and problem-solving.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Data analysis and reporting.
• System administration and configuration.
• Change management and continuous improvement.
• Collaboration and partnership.
• Technical knowledge of HRIS systems.

Benefits

• An opportunity to work for a company that is 100% employee-owned.
• Annual company performance bonus in addition to base salary.
• Defined career paths so you’ll always know what’s next and what steps can get where you want to go.
• Professional development opportunities including tuition reimbursement and unlimited free access to LinkedIn Learning courses.
• A competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, PTO, and paid holidays.
• Expanded onsite wellness clinic offering preventive care services such as wellness screenings, annual physicals, and related lab work at no cost to employee-owners.
• Activities including department outings, holiday parties, and our annual company-wide Thanksgiving Dinner.

Pay

• Competitive compensation based on experience and qualifications.

Schedule

• Full-time position.