Workday HRIS Configuration Lead (Compensation, Advanced Compensation & Benefits)
About The Position
The Workday HRIS Configuration Lead is responsible for leading the design, configuration, and optimization of Workday across Compensation, Advanced Compensation, and Benefits. This role serves as the subject matter expert (SME) for Workday business processes (BPs) and system configuration, ensuring scalable, compliant, and efficient solutions that support enterprise compensation and benefits strategies. This position partners closely with Total Rewards, HR, Finance, Payroll, and Leadership to deliver high-impact system capabilities that enable accurate compensation administration, streamline benefits processes, and support data-driven decision-making.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of Workday configuration experience, with emphasis on Compensation and/or Benefits
- Deep expertise in Workday Business Process Framework
- Proven experience designing and supporting compensation cycles or benefits enrollment processes
- Strong understanding of Total Rewards operations and regulatory considerations
Nice To Haves
- Workday Pro Certification(s) (Compensation, Advanced Compensation, Benefits)
- Experience supporting complex or high-volume compensation cycles
- Familiarity with payroll integrations and downstream impacts
- Experience with reporting tools (e.g., Prism, composite reporting)
Responsibilities
- Serve as SME for Workday business process (BP) design and configuration across Compensation, Advanced Compensation, and Benefits
- Own end-to-end configuration including: Compensation and Benefits business process frameworks, Approval routing, eligibility rules, and validations, Calculated fields supporting pay, eligibility, and enrollment logic
- Design and optimize core processes such as: Compensation review cycles (merit, bonus, equity if applicable), Job change compensation impacts, Open enrollment and life event processing, Benefit eligibility and enrollment workflows
- Ensure processes are scalable, auditable, and aligned with compliance requirements
- Translate Total Rewards and Finance requirements into scalable Workday configuration solutions
- Establish and enforce configuration standards for compensation and benefits processes
- Ensure consistency across core HCM, Payroll, Recruiting, and downstream integrations
- Evaluate and implement enhancements from Workday bi-annual releases
- Own system configuration and roadmap for: Compensation: grades, ranges, eligibility, defaulting rules, Benefits: eligibility rules, plans, event rules, open enrollment configuration
- Ensure alignment of system configuration with compensation philosophy and benefits strategy
- Partner with Total Rewards to support annual planning cycles and ongoing program changes
- Act as primary HRIS escalation point for complex compensation and benefits issues
- Collaborate with analytics teams to ensure configuration supports reporting and insights
- Identify opportunities to automate compensation and benefits processes through Workday configuration
- Improve user experience for managers and HR teams during comp cycles and enrollment periods
- Drive adoption of new functionality across Total Rewards programs
Benefits
- Variety of health and wellness benefits
- Paid time off
- Holiday pay
- Early access to 50% of earned wages at any time through our myFlexPay program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
