HRIS Lead: Workday & Analytics for Data Integrity

RXO; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision plans

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

EAP and development programs

Job summary

RXO in Charlotte, NC, is seeking a Lead HRIS Analyst to manage Workday and related HR systems, ensuring data integrity, reporting, and compliance. You will translate business needs into scalable HRIS solutions and drive system enhancements and releases.

The role requires 5+ years of Workday/HRIS experience, strong Excel skills, and a track record in project leadership and governance across HR domains such as HCM, Talent Acquisition, and Payroll.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive Workday or HRIS experience in an enterprise environment, including hands-on configuration, reporting, testing, audits, and HR operations support.
• Experience supporting Workday HCM, Recruiting/Talent Acquisition, Compensation, Time and Absence and Payroll touchpoints, Security, Reporting, and downstream system impacts.
• Proven experience leading projects, workstreams, release activities, requirements gathering, UAT/regression testing, deployment planning, and stakeholder support.
• Advanced Excel and HR reporting skills; experience with Workday Report Writer, calculated fields, dashboards, EIBs, integrations, or payroll-impacting reports preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day HRIS operations and support across Workday HCM, Talent Acquisition, Time and Absence, Payroll, Reporting, and related HR technology.
• Configure, test, and maintain Workday business processes, security, notifications, condition rules, calculated fields, reports, dashboards, templates, and system tables.
• Lead HRIS projects and workstreams, including requirements gathering, impact analysis, project planning, testing, deployment readiness, stakeholder communication, and post-launch support.
• Manage Workday release review activities, including feature evaluation, regression testing, UAT coordination, impact documentation, and adoption recommendations.
• Design, maintain, and validate Workday reports, dashboards, calculated fields, EIBs, audit files, and payroll-impacting reporting outputs.
• Support SOX-ready controls, approval processes, security reviews, audit evidence, payroll-impacting changes, and compliance-related HRIS activities.
• Serve as an escalation point for complex HRIS issues, troubleshooting defects, coordinating with vendors or support partners, and driving root-cause resolution.
• Maintain SOPs, job aids, testing scripts, release notes, checklists, process documentation, and knowledge articles for HRIS users and team members.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual work, simplify processes, reduce rework, improve governance, and strengthen stakeholder experience.

Skills

Workday HCM experience

HRIS governance

Project leadership

Advanced Excel

UAT/regression testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR, IS, CS

Tools

Workday

EIBs

Workday Report Writer

Job description

RXO in Charlotte, NC, is seeking a Lead HRIS Analyst to manage Workday and related HR systems, ensuring data integrity, reporting, and compliance. You will translate business needs into scalable HRIS solutions and drive system enhancements and releases.

The role requires 5+ years of Workday/HRIS experience, strong Excel skills, and a track record in project leadership and governance across HR domains such as HCM, Talent Acquisition, and Payroll.