Human Resources Information System Specialist

Golden Opportunities; Chennai District; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Golden Opportunities is seeking an HRIS Specialist to optimize Workday and PeopleSoft configurations across Absence, Benefits, and Talent Management in a multi-country setup. You will partner with global teams to translate HR policies into system configurations in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities include building complex calculated fields, reports, and dashboards, managing UAT cycles, and supporting data migration, releases, and hypercare.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in HRIS with strong Workday/PeopleSoft experience.
• Hands-on across Absence, Benefits and Talent Management modules.
• Strong HR process knowledge and policy translation into config.
• Experience coordinating global release cycles and UAT.

Responsibilities

• Configure and maintain HRIS business processes, rules, validations, and routing.
• Develop and maintain complex calculated fields for eligibility and reporting.
• Design, update, and troubleshoot reports and dashboards.
• Lead regression testing and scope for UAT across stakeholders.
• Support data migration, cutover, and hypercare activities.
• Provide change management and training support.

Skills

Workday

PeopleSoft

Absence Management

Benefits Management

Talent Management

Reporting

UAT

Data Migration

Security

EIB

Stakeholder Management

Tools

EIB

Job description

Job Title: Human Resources Information System Specialist (HRIS)

Location: Chennai/Hyderabad

Candidate Expectation and Roles & Responsibilities:

5+ years of HR Information systems experience (e.g. Min. 3 years in Workday and PeopleSoft).

Hands-on configuration experience across Absence, Benefits and Talent Management modules.

Strong understanding of business process framework, calculated fields, reporting, EIB, and security.

Experience managing global release cycles and UAT coordination.

Strong functional HR knowledge, with the ability to understand HR policies and ways of working and translate them into system configuration.

Strong stakeholder management supporting global and regional users, with familiarity in managing country-specific requirements.

Familiar with multi-country governance standards and cross-country complexities.

Strong analytical and troubleshooting capabilities.

Able to quickly grasp new concepts, projects, and system functionalities, and adapt effectively in a fast-paced environment.

Configure and maintain business processes, condition rules, validations, notifications, eligibility rules, and routing logic.

Develop and maintain complex calculated fields used for eligibility, reporting, and security.

Design, update, and troubleshoot reports and dashboards.

Build and govern templates including validation rules, field mapping, and upload sequencing.

Review release notes and conduct detailed impact assessments.

Recommend feature enablement decisions aligned to policy and risk.

Define regression testing scope and strategy.

Develop and execute UAT scripts across global stakeholders.

Implement configuration updates related to releases

Lead requirements discovery and translate into Workday design.

Support configurations, reporting, and data migration, if applicable.

Manage testing, cutover, and hypercare.

Provide change management and training support.

Conduct deep triage of complex cross-module Workday issues.

Perform root cause analysis across configuration, integrations, and user processes.

Reproduce issues in sandbox environment.

Implement configuration fixes, data corrections, workarounds, and preventive controls