In this role, you lead Workday HRIS initiatives within a prominent financial services organization. You will act as the functional SME, delivering hands-on configuration, testing, and optimization across Workday modules and HR technology, while guiding a team and partnering with payroll, benefits, and talent teams. You will oversee releases, testing, and continuous improvement, driving production readiness and best practices. This is an opportunity to shape Workday solutions and HR technology strategy in a cross-functional setting.
Responsibilities
Act as functional lead and subject matter expert for Workday and HR technology initiatives
Provide hands-on configuration, testing, troubleshooting across multiple Workday modules
Lead enhancements, releases, testing, and continuous improvement efforts
Mentor HRIS analysts and guide solution design and issue resolution
Partner with Payroll, Compensation, Benefits, HR, and Talent teams to deliver Workday solutions
Collaborate with technical teams on requirements, integrations, testing, and deployments
Support Workday releases, feature adoption, and production readiness
Perform impact assessments, root cause analysis, and configuration reviews
Develop documentation, testing materials, and knowledge-sharing resources
Recommend Workday best practices and opportunities for optimization
Key requirements
7+ years of HRIS experience with strong Workday expertise
Experience supporting multiple Workday functional areas (Compensation, Benefits, Time Tracking, Absence, Security, Payroll)
Strong understanding of Workday configuration, business processes, reporting, security, and testing methodologies
Experience building reports, dashboards, calculated fields, EIBs, and supporting data initiatives
Demonstrated ability to partner across business and technical teams
Experience coaching and developing HRIS analysts
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
strong communication skills
analytical thinking
mentoring and coaching
Workday HRIS expertise
Workday modules (Compensation, Benefits, Time Tracking, Absence, Security, Payroll)
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