Senior HR Technology Analyst - Hourly Compensation
About The Position
The Senior HR Technology Analyst for Hourly Compensation joins GM’s HR Solutions Enablement team, which builds scalable, cohesive HR solutions and provides Tier 2 support to business users. The role designs, configures, and maintains complex Workday hourly compensation processes across multiple countries and facilities with distinct requirements. It combines consultative problem-solving, end-to-end execution, and influence across teams to deliver accurate, compliant, auditable, and scalable solutions that improve system effectiveness, user experience, and operational scalability. The analyst serves as a Workday subject-matter expert and solution designer, translating hourly wage structures, step-progression rules, premiums, allowances, collective bargaining agreements, legislation, and compensation policies into sustainable configurations. The role partners with HR, Compensation, Payroll, Labor Relations, Technology, Integration, Reporting, and Analytics stakeholders. It may occasionally require work outside standard hours to support global stakeholders and critical projects. The position is based remotely. Candidates who live within a specified distance of a GM hub are 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, and GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of progressive experience in HR technology, HRIS, compensation, or a related field, including at least 4 years of hands-on Workday configuration experience focused on Compensation.
- Advanced knowledge of hourly compensation practices, including wage scales, step progression, premiums, allowances, and related eligibility rules, with the ability to model them in Workday.
- Fluency in Workday Compensation building blocks, including compensation packages, grades, grade profiles, steps, eligibility rules, and plan assignments, and understanding of how they work together.
- Experience building or supporting Workday custom reports and calculated fields related to compensation.
- Comfort using Workday EIBs and mass-update patterns to move data at scale, including validation, reconciliation, and post-load review.
- Ability to translate policy, legislation, and collective bargaining agreement language into clear, testable configurations and explain the logic to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience working across multiple countries or regions and navigating differing regulatory and contractual environments to implement complex hourly compensation solutions.
- Professionalism, discretion, and sound judgment when accessing sensitive employee information, using it only for legitimate business purposes and authorized work activities.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, attention to detail, data quality, and root-cause analysis.
- Ability to manage work independently in a structured, change-managed environment and consistently deliver commitments.
- Clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Nice To Haves
- Workday Pro certification in Compensation or comparable advanced Workday training.
- Experience supporting large hourly or manufacturing populations and understanding plant and operations environments.
- Experience translating union or collective bargaining agreements into Workday pay, step-progression, premium, and allowance designs.
- Experience across additional Workday domains such as Core HCM, Absence, Benefits, Recruiting, Talent, or Advanced Compensation.
- Understanding of Workday security fundamentals, including domain and business process security, role-based access, audit requirements, and internal controls.
- Experience leading or co-leading multi-country Workday initiatives or compensation optimizations and owning portions of a global roadmap.
- Ability to identify and responsibly apply AI-powered tools or agents, such as copilots, chatbots, or automation frameworks, to improve the end-user experience, Workday configurations, and business processes.
Responsibilities
- Design and configure end-to-end Workday solutions for global hourly compensation, including compensation packages, grades, grade profiles, steps, eligibility rules, and plan assignments.
- Configure and maintain base wage structures, wage scales, premium pay structures, differential rules, automatic step-progression schedules, local allowances, and country-specific pay components such as 13th- and 14th-month pay where applicable.
- Translate local collective bargaining agreements, country legislation, and compensation policies into clear, sustainable, and testable Workday solutions.
- Design and maintain compensation eligibility rules based on job profile, location, union or collective agreement, employee type, and other relevant attributes.
- Lead or support standardization and expansion projects, including discovery, design workshops, configuration, testing, deployment, and hypercare.
- Partner with Payroll and Integration teams to support accurate downstream pay calculations and payroll processing.
- Collaborate with Reporting and Analytics teams so compensation data supports reporting, compliance, benchmarking, and decision-making.
- Troubleshoot production issues involving compensation eligibility, rates, step progression, and allowances.
- Execute and coordinate unit, integration, regression, and end-user testing; develop test scenarios and document configurations and expected outcomes.
- Evaluate Workday releases and assess their impacts on Compensation configuration, integrations, reporting, security, and business processes.
- Apply Workday security and access controls; support data audits and control activities; and ensure configuration changes are documented, traceable, and approved through governance processes.
- Validate, reconcile, and execute EIBs and other mass data updates in accordance with data-quality and change-control standards.
- Use data and root-cause analysis to diagnose issues and identify opportunities for process improvement, automation, and a better user experience.
Benefits
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Health Savings Account
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Retirement savings plan
- Sickness and accident benefits
- Life insurance
- Paid vacation and holidays
- Tuition assistance programs
- Employee assistance program
- GM vehicle discounts
- Incentive pay program with payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
