HRIS Workday Configuration Analyst / Senior

American Electric Power•Columbus, OH

1d•Remote

About The Position

This role plays a critical part in ensuring Workday effectively supports HR operations and strategic initiatives, enabling accurate data, streamlined processes, and an enhanced employee experience. The HRIS Analyst assists in the maintenance and support of Workday HCM, including configuration, data analysis, and the bi-annual releases. This role involves troubleshooting and resolving technical support tickets, generating, and analyzing HR reports to provide insights for decision-making, configuring business processes, and participating in user training sessions to support end-users. Additionally, the HRIS Analyst will maintain data integrity and ensure compliance with data privacy regulations. The Senior role also includes solution design, advanced analysis and HR data support including complex reporting.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, or Human Resources; Or Associate’s degree with 2 years of relevant work experience; Or HS diploma/GED with 4 years of relevant work experience (for Analyst).
2 years of relevant work experience is required (for Analyst).
HR systems experience is preferred.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, or Human Resources; Or Associate’s degree; Or HS diploma/GED with 7 years of relevant work experience (for Senior Analyst).
Minimum of 4 years of Workday application support, process configuration, HR data maintenance experience required (for Senior Analyst).
Workday Pro certification(s) preferred.
Reporting tools (Calculated Fields).
Data privacy/compliance knowledge.
HR Business Process acumen in 2-3 HR functional areas (Core HCM, Recruiting, Payroll, T&L, Compensation, or Learning.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and prioritization skills.
Effective communication and ability to manage multiple deadlines.

Nice To Haves

Workday Pro certification(s)
Reporting tools (Calculated Fields)
Data privacy/compliance knowledge
HR Business Process acumen in 2-3 HR functional areas (Core HCM, Recruiting, Payroll, T&L, Compensation, or Learning)

Responsibilities

Configure and customize Workday to align with the organization’s evolving needs and business requirements.
Identify enhancement opportunities and assess impacts on downstream systems.
Evaluate, build, and maintain various Workday modules
Support ad-hoc reporting requests across the organization.
Manage a diverse and fluid workload commonly including multiple assignments and variable deadlines.
Troubleshooting and resolving technical support tickets
Generating, and analyzing HR reports to provide insights for decision-making
Configuring business processes
Participating in user training sessions to support end-users
Maintain data integrity and ensure compliance with data privacy regulations.
Solution design, advanced analysis and HR data support including complex reporting.