Workday Business Systems Analyst, People Systems

About the role

Anthropic is seeking a talented and driven Workday Business Systems Analyst to join our People Systems team. You'll own the technical configuration, testing, and operational excellence of our Workday HRIS across two domains: PATT and HCM.

Responsibilities

• PATT and HCM Configuration: Configure and maintain Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking configurations and business processes.
• Core HCM Foundation: Own core HCM data structures, business process frameworks, and the security model that underpins everything we do in Workday.
• Business Process Definitions: Design, build, and maintain business process definitions in both domains, including condition rules, calculated fields, custom validations, routing and approval logic, and notifications.
• Security and Data Audits: Support security and data audits in partnership with the broader team, using Workday delivered and custom audit reports to analyze access patterns, remediate exceptions, and uphold segregation of duties.
• Impact Analysis: Perform impact analysis before changes ship, including how HCM and security changes ripple into payroll, absence, and time data.
• Release Management: Lead testing and adoption for Workday's twice-yearly releases across both domains, assess new features, run regression testing on critical business processes and security, and drive rollout of features we opt into.
• Reporting and Dashboards: Build and maintain advanced, matrix, and composite reports and dashboards; support mass data changes via EIB.
• System Support: Triage and resolve day-to-day system issues, getting to root cause rather than patching symptoms.
• Process Automation: Drive process automation and optimization opportunities with the broader People team and partner functions.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on working knowledge of Workday Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking (PATT) configuration and design, business process configuration, and Security.
• Hands-on working knowledge of Workday Core HCM.
• Experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment and know how to flex between roles.
• Strong technical skills including understanding of Workday architecture, security models, and integration methodologies.
• Experience with full lifecycle Workday implementations and/or significant module expansions.
• Intellectually curious, you ask "why" before "how," explore root causes rather than symptoms, and stay current on Workday and adjacent HR tech because you want to, not because you have to.
• Approach problems with creativity, comfortable looking past the standard or obvious solution to find an answer that actually fits the business.
• Treat HR data security and privacy as a non-negotiable foundation in everything you build and maintain.
• Detail-oriented with strong documentation skills and a commitment to process excellence.
• Able to manage multiple competing priorities, with a bias toward flexibility and impact.
• A collaborative mindset and willingness to pick up slack even if it goes outside your job description.

Benefits

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. Annual Salary $270,000—$270,000 USD.

Logistics: Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience. Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience. Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position.

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this. We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work.

We are an equal opportunity employer and consider applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military status, or protected veteran status.