Senior Lead HRIS Analyst, UKG

Stryker; Cork; On-site; EUR 62,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryker is seeking a Senior Lead HRIS Analyst to drive timekeeping and leave management through UKG Workforce Management. You will ensure production stability, support business operations, and lead enhancements aligned with HR technology strategy.

You will partner with HR, Payroll, Finance, IT, Compliance, Audit, and other stakeholders to optimize processes, support releases, and contribute to roadmaps. This is a senior role requiring strong analytical and collaborative skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required.
• 6+ years HRIS experience, with focus on production/live environments.
• Experience supporting timekeeping or leave systems (UKG Kronos) preferred.
• Demonstrated experience with production support, incident resolution, and root cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Serve as SME for UKG timekeeping and leave management, providing functional and technical support to HR users and support teams, focusing on European timekeeping and leaves functionality.
• Own production support and live-site stability by acting as escalation point for complex UKG issues, driving RCAs and corrective actions.
• Recommend and implement business process, reporting, and system changes to improve efficiency and user experience.
• Evaluate UKG releases and new functionality, assessing impacts and advising adoption within change control.
• Manage the enhancement backlog by evaluating, prioritizing, and delivering system improvements with business stakeholders.
• Configure, test, and document system, security, and reporting changes with clear test cases.
• Identify security issues/risks and provide solutions while supporting audit activities and ensuring controls.

Skills

UKG expertise

Production support

Root cause analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Security & compliance

Data reporting & visualization

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

UKG Workforce Management

Boomi integrations

BIRT reporting

Job description

Permanent Contract

The Senior Lead HRIS Analyst serves as the functional and technical expert for UKG Workforce Management, supporting timekeeping and leave management processes across the organization. This role is responsible for ensuring system stability, supporting business operations, managing enhancements, and driving continuous improvement of UKG solutions. The individual will partner closely with HR, Payroll, Finance, Compliance, Audit, IT, and business stakeholders to optimize processes, resolve complex system issues, and support ongoing product releases and roadmap planning. The role will lead requirements gathering, solution design, testing, production support, and adoption of new UKG capabilities while maintaining alignment with enterprise HR technology strategy.

What you will do:

• Serve as the subject matter expert for UKG (Kronos) timekeeping and leave management, providing functional and technical support to HR/business users and support teams, with a focus on European timekeeping and leaves functionality.
• Own production support and live-site stability by serving as the escalation point for complex UKG issues, driving root cause analysis, resolution, and corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Recommend and implement business process, reporting, and system changes that improve efficiency, user experience, and business outcomes.
• Evaluate UKG releases and new functionality (weekly, monthly, and twice-yearly), assessing impacts and providing recommendations for adoption within the change control process.
• Manage the enhancement backlog by evaluating, prioritizing, and delivering system improvements in partnership with business stakeholders.
• Configure, test, and document system, security, and reporting changes, defining tangible test use cases that align technology output to business objectives.
• Perform feasibility assessments of system/report modifications and enhancements, ensuring alignment with HRIS enterprise strategy and anticipating cause-and-effect impacts across integrated systems.
• Identify security issues/risks and provide solutions, while supporting audit activities and ensuring compliance with internal controls.
• Build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships with business users, business-facing HR, and HR COE teams, and provide consulting and insights to stakeholders at all levels.
• Create and manage reporting, data visualizations, and user interfaces, and train/educate users across the organization to enable best use of the system and reports.

Who we want:

• Service-oriented professionals who take ownership of system stability, issue resolution, and end-user experience.
• Continuous improvement practitioners who proactively identify enhancement opportunities and drive adoption of new functionality.
• Relationship builders who partner across HR, Payroll, Finance, IT, Compliance, and business teams to support ongoing operations.

What you will need:

Required

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required.
• 6+ years of HRIS experience required, with a focus on supporting production/live environments.
• Experience supporting timekeeping or leave systems, such as UKG (Kronos), strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience with production support, incident resolution, and root cause analysis.

Preferred

• 3+ years supporting UKG Workforce Management (or an equivalent timekeeping and leave management platform). Ideally in a Manufacturing environment
• 2+ years business-facing HR, HR COE, HR Operations, or role-related experience.
• Experience with UKG configuration, security, reporting, and troubleshooting.
• Experience supporting global / European timekeeping and leave processes.
• Experience with release management, tenant/environment maintenance, and change governance.
• Experience with Boomi integrations.
• Experience with BIRT report creation, data visualization, and workforce analytics.

United Kingdom Pay Ranges:

• United Kingdom: £51,700 - £86,200 GBP Annual

Ireland Pay Ranges:

• Ireland: €62,000 - €105,000 EUR Annual

Netherlands Pay Ranges:

• Netherlands: €68.400 - €127.000 EUR Annual

At Stryker, we believe transparency helps candidates make confident decisions about their next career step. Compensation is an important part of that process and we want to be clear about how pay is determined. The compensation information posted for this role may be presented as a salary range or a fixed amount depending on the role. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for incentive compensation (such as bonus and/or commissions where applicable), along with Stryker’s comprehensive benefits package.

If you’d like to learn more about the salary or the benefits associated with this role, your recruiter will be happy to walk you through the details as you progress through the hiring process.

Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually.