Senior HRIS Analyst (Workday)

EarnIn

12h•$153,130 - $226,000•Hybrid

About The Position

EarnIn is seeking a Senior HRIS Analyst to own and evolve its Workday platform, with a primary focus on payroll administration and strong expertise in Core HCM. The role also supports other Workday functional areas, including Time and Absence and Advanced Compensation. The analyst designs, configures, and optimizes scalable payroll and people systems, ensuring accurate payroll, data integrity, and efficient processes across the employee lifecycle. This role partners with People, Finance, Total Rewards, Payroll, Accounting, and IT to translate business needs into system solutions. It contributes to EarnIn’s Intelligent Work Systems transformation by developing AI-enabled, cross-system workflows and using AI tools to support documentation, testing, analysis, and system design. The role may be based in or near Mountain View, California, with two days per week in the office, or remotely in PT or CT time zones.

Requirements

At least 3 years of hands-on Workday Payroll configuration and administration experience; required.
At least 5 years of HRIS experience with deep Workday expertise.
Strong configuration experience in Workday Payroll and Core HCM.
Experience with Workday Business Process Framework, Security, and Advanced Reporting, including Calculated Fields.
Experience partnering cross-functionally with stakeholders in People, Accounting, Payroll, Finance, and IT.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Experience creating structured documentation and leveraging AI tools to enhance system design, testing, and analysis.
Advanced analytical and technical skills for translating and analyzing business needs into requirements, driving implementations, and delivering effective solutions.
Strong technical aptitude and a desire to learn new technologies and solution architectures.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Workday Advanced Compensation.
Experience with Workday Time and Absence.
Experience with Workday Talent/Performance modules.
Experience with Workday Extend.
Experience in global and matrixed organizations.
Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Information Systems, or equivalent.
Experience designing workflows across employment lifecycle areas such as recruiting, onboarding, career development, and off-boarding.

Responsibilities

Administer Workday Payroll configuration end-to-end, including pay groups, earnings, deductions, and payroll-impacting business processes.
Serve as the primary systems point of contact for Payroll Operations and support accurate, on-time pay processing.
Own the configuration and ongoing optimization of Workday Payroll and other assigned areas of Core HCM, including security frameworks.
Support configuration and troubleshooting across other Workday functional areas, including Time and Absence.
Design and maintain business processes, workflows, and system controls across the employee lifecycle.
Lead system enhancements, releases, and feature adoption in assigned areas.
Design solutions that support end-to-end business processes across systems, including access governance, compliance, and cross-functional workflow orchestration.
Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and automate People processes through Workday and integrated systems.
Drive scalable solutions that reduce manual effort and improve data accuracy.
Contribute to the Workday roadmap by defining and prioritizing enhancements based on business impact, scalability, and system health.
Establish and maintain system governance and best practices.
Partner with People Operations and external Workday support to manage escalations, prioritize issues, and resolve recurring problems systemically.
Maintain data consistency and integrity across Workday and downstream financial systems, including reconciliation of workforce data used in financial reporting and planning.
Develop and maintain system documentation, including business processes, decision logic, and architecture diagrams; use AI tools to accelerate documentation, identify logic gaps, and propose enhancements.
Troubleshoot system issues, identify root causes, and implement scalable fixes.
Build and maintain advanced Workday reports, dashboards, and calculated fields.
Partner with stakeholders to deliver actionable insights across People and Finance and maintain consistent, accurate workforce data.
Translate business requirements into system solutions in partnership with People Ops, Accounting, Payroll, Total Rewards, Finance, and IT.
Serve as a subject matter expert on Workday capabilities and limitations.
Support Finance with workforce planning, budgeting, and actuals reporting by ensuring accurate and timely workforce data.
Support UAT strategy and ensure high-quality system deployments.
Use AI and structured methodologies to define test strategies, generate test cases, support design reviews, and identify logic gaps or architectural improvements before deployment.