Workday HR & Payroll Functional Analyst

Overview

Functional owner of Workday HCM and Payroll business processes end to end, supporting one of ApplyBoard's school partners in Florida. Translates People and Payroll needs into scalable, well-governed Workday configurations.

What you'll do

• Support lifecycle HCM business processes (recruiting, onboarding, compensation, benefits, payroll)
• Manage hire-to-retire processes: job requisition, hire, onboarding, change job, transfers, leaves, termination and offboarding
• Manage organization, supervisory and position management, including headcount governance and position restrictions
• Configure the Business Process Framework: approval routing, condition rules, validation rules and notifications
• Integrate data validation and perform data conversion using EIBs
• Configure Workday business processes and workflows
• Test and deploy system updates and enhancements
• Troubleshoot user issues and system errors
• Manage security roles and permissions
• Coordinate with HR, Payroll, IT, Finance and vendors
• Support Workday's biannual software releases
• Recommend process improvements and automation opportunities
• Configure merit, bonus and equity cycles, including grid configuration, eligibility rules, validation logic and executive readouts
• Manage compensation change processes and the downstream pay impacts they trigger
• Manage absence plans, accruals and time-off business processes
• Manage benefits enrollment, life events and carrier-facing data accuracy, including ACA reporting and 1094-C and 1095-C support
• Support payroll business processes, including pay calculation validation and audit
• Run payroll parallel testing for releases and for any configuration change that touches pay
• Coordinate general ledger, tax and carrier integrations with the integration team
• Optimize recruiting and applicant tracking workflows and the onboarding experience
• Support talent and performance processes such as check-ins, calibration and development

What you'll need

• 5+ years of hands-on Workday HCM with direct ownership of business process configuration (routing, conditions, validations)
• Production Workday Payroll experience, including parallel testing and pay calculation validation
• Proven reporting depth across advanced, matrix and composite reports and calculated fields
• Hands-on configuration of Core HCM, position management, compensation, absence and benefits (role-based security profiles)
• Strong stakeholder partnering, able to run requirements sessions and turn business needs into governed configuration
• Working command of Workday security concepts and the bi-annual release and regression cycle
• EIBs, integration data validation and data conversion experience

Nice to have

• Workday Payroll and HCM related certifications
• Higher education experience across faculty, staff, adjunct and student-worker populations and academic-calendar pay cycles
• ACA and other HR compliance reporting experience
• Exposure to related systems such as ADP, an applicant tracking system, Okta and ServiceNow