Workday Principal Business Analyst

About the role

The Principal Business Systems Analyst position at GIA is a key member of the Workday Global Business System team. Based in either Carlsbad, CA or New York City, this role involves liaising with IT, Finance, and Human Resources to optimize Workday ERP efficiency, enable continuous process improvement, drive cost reduction, and facilitate organizational growth.

Responsibilities

• Plans and directs the analysis of business problems to be solved with IT solutions.
• Works with the business to determine the core issue(s) that need to be solved and identifies opportunities to do things differently.
• Develops business cases that ensure benefits align to strategic and tactical business objectives.
• Captures functional business requirements by gathering, analyzing, and documenting requirements.
• Ensures system design fits the needs of the user.
• Designs, develops, configures, tests, maintains, and supports system solutions.
• Ensures the required outcomes are built, tested, and delivered.
• Identifies opportunities for improvement, simplification, standardization, and automation.
• Assists in developing and maintaining a roadmap for business technology solutions.
• Manages projects/initiatives to ensure delivery of quality solutions on time and within budget.
• Coaches and guides staff in business requirements gathering, as well as developing best practices in business analysis.
• May direct work of staff.
• Safeguards system access and security and supports system audits.
• Promotes alignment of objectives and programs with business leaders.
• Provides guidance on best practices for data extraction and analysis.
• Collaborates with others to contribute to the success of our customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.
• 6+ years of experience working in Workday.
• Workday Integration Certification preferred.
• Workday Studio Certification preferred.

Skills

• Comprehension and proficiency of Software as a Service (SaaS) architecture, design, configuration, and testing in various areas of Workday.
• Knowledge of Workday administrative functions including tenant configuration, data loads, payroll configurations, and maintenance.
• Ability to define and prioritize requirements for iterative development.
• Experience with Workday Studio, Workday Web Service Framework, Workday Core Connector and Document Transformation, Workday Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), Workday Business Intelligence Reporting Tool (BIRT).
• Familiarity with XML, XPATH, XSLT.
• Strong ability to analyze complex workflows and processes.
• Knowledge of standard industry workflow patterns and their applications.
• Strong familiarity with user interface patterns and practices.
• Able to mock up user experiences to obtain rapid, iterative feedback.
• Skilled at breaking down requirements into independent, valuable stories that focus on user goals rather than technical aspects of the system.
• Action-oriented, influential collaboration to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Liaise with global stakeholders to adopt new functionality as needed.
• Identify business process improvement and standardization, pursue opportunities for cost reduction.
• Analyze incidents/requests; ensure issues and/or defects are identified, documented, and timely resolved.
• Edify and maintain constructive stakeholder relationships (Executive, HR, IT, etc.), solicit feedback to ensure ongoing service satisfaction.
• Capacity to administer multiple, competing demands and work cooperatively with others.
• Immersive in customary HR, IT, and Finance communications, meetings, and activities to engender collegial support.

Benefits

• Competitive medical, dental, vision, and matching 401-K plans (no vesting required).
• Paid vacation, sick and holidays.
• Tuition assistance.
• Commuter benefits.

Pay

$118,000 - $153,000

Schedule

This position can be based at either our corporate headquarters in Carlsbad, California or our office in New York City. We offer a flexible hybrid work arrangement, typically requiring 3 days in the office per week (subject to change).