HRIS Business Analyst: Workday Specialist (Remote)

Guaranteed Rate, Inc.; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 110,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Medical benefits

Paid time off

Remote work

Job summary

Guaranteed Rate, Inc. is seeking a Business Analyst, HRIS to support Workday and related HR technologies. You will translate business needs into clear requirements, maintain process documentation, and coordinate testing across teams.

The role emphasizes requirements gathering, documentation, and collaboration with business and technology partners to drive delivery from discovery through implementation, with a focus on process improvement and data accuracy.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in business analysis, HR technology, enterprise applications, project delivery, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience gathering and documenting business requirements, processes, and test scenarios.
• Strong process analysis, documentation, facilitation, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to translate business needs into clear, actionable requirements and work effectively across business and technology teams.

Responsibilities

• Gather, document, and validate business requirements for Workday enhancements, issues, and projects.
• Translate business needs into clear requirements, process flows, user stories, acceptance criteria, and supporting documentation.
• Analyze current-state processes and document future-state requirements, identifying gaps, dependencies, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Facilitate requirements and process discussions with business and technology stakeholders.
• Maintain requirements, process documentation, decisions, and other functional artifacts throughout the solution lifecycle.
• Support backlog refinement by ensuring requests are complete, documented, and ready for technical evaluation and delivery.
• Partner with business and technical resources throughout design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Develop test scenarios and scripts; coordinate and execute functional testing, document defects, and support retesting and business acceptance.
• Track requirements, decisions, dependencies, issues, and action items through delivery and elevate risks or gaps as appropriate.
• Support release readiness, stakeholder communications, training, and change activities.
• Analyze business processes, recurring issues, and user feedback to identify opportunities for simplification, automation, and improved user experience.

Skills

Business analysis

Requirements gathering

Communication

HR technology

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business or Information Systems or HR or related field

Tools

Workday

HR systems

Job description

Guaranteed Rate, Inc. is seeking a Business Analyst, HRIS to support Workday and related HR technologies. You will translate business needs into clear requirements, maintain process documentation, and coordinate testing across teams.

The role emphasizes requirements gathering, documentation, and collaboration with business and technology partners to drive delivery from discovery through implementation, with a focus on process improvement and data accuracy.