HR Technology Analyst
About The Position
General Motors is seeking a Senior Workday Functional Analyst to support and enhance its Workday environment. The role focuses on employee data management, mass data transactions, document generation, data conversion, and maintaining accurate, scalable Workday configurations. The analyst partners with HR, Payroll, Recruiting, Compensation, and IT teams on projects, enhancements, production support, and data initiatives. The position is based remotely. Candidates who live within a specified radius of a GM hub will be expected to report to that location three times a week or at another frequency set by their manager. The role is not eligible for relocation benefits. GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. General Motors describes its vision as a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions, and Zero Congestion, and says it aims to foster an inclusive workplace where employees feel they belong. GM states that it makes employment decisions on a non-discriminatory basis and offers reasonable accommodations to job seekers with disabilities.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of Workday functional experience, preferably supporting Workday Core HCM in a large enterprise environment.
- Hands-on experience with Workday Personal Information and Contact Information configuration and business processes.
- Experience creating, processing, troubleshooting, and validating Workday EIBs for mass data transactions.
- Experience with HR data migration, data conversion, data mapping, cleansing, transformation, reconciliation, and validation.
- Experience configuring and maintaining reference letters, employment letters, document templates, and other Workday-generated documents.
- Strong knowledge of Workday Core HCM and the Workday Business Process Framework.
- Experience with Workday reporting, calculated fields, security, and Business Process Security Policies.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex configuration, data, EIB, and business process issues.
- Understanding of data integrity, data governance, and HR data management best practices.
- Strong written and verbal communication, analytical, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects, production issues, enhancement requests, and data initiatives simultaneously.
- Familiarity with Workday configuration deployment and migration tools, including Tenant Compare, Configuration Change Tracker/Extracts, and Object Transporter (OX).
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting large-scale Workday implementations, acquisitions, reorganizations, or HR data migration/conversion projects.
- Exposure to Compensation, Recruiting, Absence, Benefits, and/or Payroll.
- Experience working in Agile or large enterprise HRIS environments.
- Workday certification in Core HCM and/or other relevant Workday modules.
Responsibilities
- Configure, maintain, and enhance Workday Core HCM, especially Personal Information, Contact Information, Staffing, Jobs & Positions, and employee data management.
- Configure and support Personal Information business processes, including routing, approvals, validations, condition rules, notifications, security, and employee self-service functionality.
- Create, test, process, and troubleshoot EIB files for high-volume and mass business transactions.
- Manage inbound EIB processing, including data preparation, transformation, validation, error resolution, reconciliation, and post-load verification.
- Support HR data migration and conversion, including extraction, cleansing, mapping, transformation, loading, reconciliation, and validation between legacy systems and Workday.
- Partner with business and technical teams to define data mapping and conversion requirements and ensure migrated data meets Workday configuration and business requirements.
- Configure and maintain reference letters, employment letters, document templates, and other employee-related Workday documents, including dynamic fields, calculated fields, conditional content, and business process integration.
- Perform mass updates and data corrections using appropriate Workday tools while maintaining data quality, integrity, and audit controls.
- Analyze and resolve EIB errors, data discrepancies, validation failures, and other complex Workday data issues.
- Configure and maintain Workday business processes, including routing, approvals, condition rules, notifications, validations, questionnaires, documents, and Business Process Security Policies.
- Support Workday production issues and serve as a Tier escalation contact for complex Core HCM, Personal Information, EIB, document, and data-related issues.
- Develop and use Workday reports and calculated fields to support data validation, reconciliation, migration, troubleshooting, and business requirements.
- Support unit, regression, data validation, and end-to-end testing for Workday enhancements and data loads.
- Review automatically available functionality delivered through Workday R1/R2 releases, assess business impact, and support regression testing.
- Review and disposition setup-required functionality delivered through Workday releases and coordinate configuration changes.
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to gather requirements, document solutions, and implement scalable system and data improvements.
- Build and maintain relationships with HR leaders, IT professionals, functional teams, and end users.
Benefits
- GM says it supports employee well-being at work and at home and provides Total Rewards resources; specific benefits are not listed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
