HRIS Analyst

Decca Consulting LLC

4d • Remote

About The Position

The Senior HRIS Analyst (Contract) specializes in Workday Time Tracking and serves as the functional expert for designing, configuring, optimizing, and supporting Workday Time Tracking solutions. The role partners with Payroll, Absence Management, HR Operations, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable workforce management solutions that support accurate time capture, labor-regulation compliance, and seamless payroll processing.

The analyst works with stakeholders to translate business requirements into system solutions, supports payroll-related workforce management processes, and provides guidance on Workday practices. The position is remote and requires working Central Time hours, Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM CST. The contract is for six months, with a possible extension. Interviews are conducted through Microsoft Teams.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of Workday functional configuration experience.
• At least 3 years of direct, hands-on Workday Time Tracking configuration experience.
• Strong experience configuring Workday Time Tracking, time calculations, time entry validations, and business processes.
• Experience supporting large, complex organizations and enterprise environments.
• Ability to gather, analyze, and translate business requirements into scalable system solutions.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder-management abilities.
• Experience supporting payroll-related workforce-management processes.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting U.S. and Canadian workforce regulations.
• Experience with Workday Absence Management, Workday Scheduling, Workday Payroll, or Workday Integrations.
• Knowledge of unionized and hourly workforce environments.
• Experience supporting global organizations with complex workforce-management requirements.
• Previous consulting or contract experience delivering Workday solutions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary subject matter expert for Workday Time Tracking.
• Design, configure, test, and deploy Workday Time Tracking solutions and enhancements.
• Configure and maintain time entry templates, time calculations and calculation groups, time entry validations, time attestations, time tracking codes, period schedules, eligibility rules, business processes, security configurations, notifications, and alerts.
• Partner with Payroll to ensure accurate time-to-pay processing.
• Configure and troubleshoot integrations between Workday Time Tracking, Payroll, Absence Management, and Scheduling.
• Support complex earnings calculations and payroll-processing scenarios.
• Investigate and resolve payroll discrepancies caused by time-tracking configuration or data issues.
• Ensure accurate processing of regular hours, overtime, shift premiums, holiday pay, and other pay-related calculations.
• Maintain compliance with federal, state, provincial, and organizational workforce regulations.
• Partner with HR, Payroll, Operations, Compliance, and IT stakeholders.
• Facilitate requirements-gathering sessions and solution-design workshops.
• Provide guidance on Workday best practices and workforce-management strategies.
• Communicate recommendations, risks, configuration impacts, and implementation plans.
• Support end-user training, adoption efforts, and knowledge-transfer activities.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed