Workday HCM Configuration Analyst
About The Position
We are seeking a skilled professional with deep expertise in Workday HCM to support and enhance technology solutions across targeted customer segments. This role partners closely with senior HR leaders to leverage Workday in achieving strategic business objectives, including configuring system functionality and optimizing business processes. The ideal candidate will collaborate across teams to deliver effective solutions, proactively identify opportunities to better support internal stakeholders, and contribute to continuous improvement efforts. This position also plays a key role in mentoring junior team members while working alongside senior colleagues to drive innovation and operational excellence.
Requirements
- Four-year college degree and at least 3 years of experience in business environments with emphasis on information technology, business strategy, consulting, project management, process analysis and design, systems architecture, or equivalent combination of experience
- Demonstrated experience working in Workday HCM
- Completion of formal Workday training (e.g., Workday HCM Fundamentals, + other Workday functional area training)
- Advanced Workday experience across configuration, business processes, reporting, and security
Nice To Haves
- Workday Pro certification in one or more functional areas
- MBA, MIS, or similar experience and/or education
- Accountability
- Accountable for driving initiatives
- Assess downstream impacts
- Business fluency
- Collaboration and customer focus
- Consulting agility
- Cross university visibility
- Design thinking
- Prioritization
- Problem solving and root cause analysis
- Project and change management
- Workday and subject matter expertise
Responsibilities
- Tier 3 support for inquiries that require deep subject matter expertise
- Workday enhancements/new functionality and testing
- Analytics/dashboard requirements definition, and report/scorecard creation.
- Creation of Human capital data analytics for leaders (e.g., turnover, tenure, etc.)
- Configuration and maintenance of Workday business process and workflows, approvals, routing, and notifications
- User-based, role-based security configuration, domain security policy inclusions/exclusions, BP security policy inclusions/exclusions, etc.
- Proactively partner with departments and Functional CoE’s to understand unit business issues, analyze data, and suggest ways to leverage Workday to enhance their services
- Define HR technology requirements
- Creation of EIB and mass data change templates and processes
- Provide oversight and guidance for all system configuration changes
- Support Workday data governance policy and processes; perform data quality and compliance audits
Benefits
- 401k. BYU automatically contributes 8% at no cost to you. Additionally, if you contribute 5%, BYU adds an additional 4% (Rehires may qualify for different retirement plans)
- Excellent work-life balance: 13 paid holidays + 22 days paid vacation + 12 sick days, accrued annually
- Employee assistance program, available to the employee and all members of their household
- Tuition benefits for employees and eligible family members
- Access to athletic facilities
- Excellent medical/dental benefits
- Short/long-term disability benefits
- Paid parental and maternity leave
- Wellness Program
- Free on-campus parking
- Free UTA passes for employees, spouses, and qualified dependents
- Discounts at the BYU Store and for many events at BYU
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
