HR Systems Analyst III-Workday, Time & Payroll Config
About The Position
Join our team as an experienced Workday Time, Absence and Payroll analyst and play a critical role in optimizing and supporting complex configuration (including specialized union contracts & absence), reporting and continuous improvement. The HR Systems Analyst III serves as a functional configuration expert responsible for designing, building, testing, and optimizing Workday solutions across assigned modules. Working closely with HR Centers of Excellence (COEs), Payroll, and HR Operations, the incumbent translates business needs into scalable configuration—while partnering with Business Analysts on requirements/process design and with Workday Engineers on integrations, security architecture, and advanced technical components. The HR Systems Analyst III leads configuration changes, supports releases, triages escalations, maintains data integrity, and contributes to Workday governance and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- 4–7+ years hands-on Workday HRIS experience.
- Deep understanding of Workday capabilities and configuration.
- Ability to diagnose system issues and present scalable solutions.
- Delivers high-quality work within timelines.
- Works well across HR, IT, engineers, and business partners.
- This role is not eligible for sponsorship.
Nice To Haves
- Expertise with Workday business processes, calculated fields, condition rules, EIB, and security fundamentals.
- Experience with Workday release cycles and regression testing.
- Must be a self-starter and able to work collaboratively and cooperatively in a team environment
- Advanced Excel and proficiency with workflow/project tools (Visio, Jira, MS Project, PowerPoint).
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
Responsibilities
- Proactively identifies challenges, identifies root cause and designs scalable solutions and system configuration improvements
- Design and configure complex Workday business processes, condition rules, calculated fields, validations, alerts, notifications, eligibility rules, and EIB templates.
- Primary owner of complex workstreams and accountable for end-to-end module impacts
- Responsible for configuration integrity and sustainability
- Mentors HR Systems Analyst(s) II and serves as an escalation point for complex configuration
- Provide guidance to Tier 1/Tier 2 HR support teams.
- Lead semi-annual release impact reviews, remediation, and regression testing for respective module(s).
- Coordinate UAT with COEs and HR Operations.
- Partner with Workday Engineers on technical feasibility and migration processes.
- Collaborate with Business Analysts to translate requirements into functional design.
- Partners with product owners, HR leaders, an COEs to consult on HR System needs
- Maintain configuration documentation, decision logs, and standards.
- Ensure documentation and controlled migration processes are followed.
- Performs other job related duties as assigned or apparent.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical benefits coverage, dental plans and vision coverage.
- Health care and dependent care spending accounts.
- Short- and long-term disability.
- Life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment insurance.
- Employee and Family Assistance Program (EAP).
- Employee discount programs.
- Retirement plan with a generous company match.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
