Remote Workday Absence & HCM Senior Analyst

Crowe; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 69,000 - 136,500; Full time

Job summary

Crowe is seeking a Workday Absence & HCM Senior Analyst to support the delivery, optimization, and maintenance of Workday Absence, Skills Cloud and Core HCM across modules. You will configure, report, test, and manage projects while coordinating with Talent Solutions, IT, Payroll and vendors to ensure Workday meets business needs.

Two years of relevant Workday Absence and Core HCM configuration experience is required, along with strong communication and analytical skills.

Qualifications

• Minimum two years of experience in Workday Absence and Core HCM configuration.
• Requires professionalism: Diplomacy, confidentiality and confidence in dealing with sensitive information.
• High level of organizational and documentation skills, including great attention to detail and accuracy.
• Must be self-confident to be able to work and communicate with varying levels of clients.
• Strong ability to collaborate between teams and cross functional areas.
• Manages through complexity and deals effectively with change.
• Proficient with Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, advanced Excel skills.
• Excellent communication and customer service skills.
• Professional Services industry experience.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to manage multiple time-sensitive projects and prioritize effectively.
• Process optimization and technical curiosity oriented.
• Ability to translate Talent needs into system solutions.
• Desire to change the status quo, challenge assumptions and embrace ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Configure business processes including notifications, condition rules, embedded analytics and sub-processes.
• Configure and maintain global leave and time off plans, accruals, eligibility rules, waiting periods, carryover rules, and related business processes.
• Build, revise and test reports, including creating calculated fields, and ensuring data integrity.
• Manage EIB templates and/or Mass Operations Management solutions.
• Support Workday release assessments and testing for Absence and other areas as needed and coordinate enabling new features with Talent, IT and Finance.
• Maintain security groups in support areas, and create new security groups as needed.
• Configure Docs and mass distribute as needed.
• Own Absence, Time Off, Skills Cloud and Core HCM requests, and priorities, document requests and project status updates.
• Document business requirements, solution designs and testing plans.
• Execute research and analysis of best practices and solutions.
• Complete ad hoc projects and annual initiatives within Workday as needed.
• Support Absence and HR Compliance teams by recommending technology improvements that automate processes and reduce manual work; identify opportunities to optimize.
• Partner with Payroll team to ensure absence and time off plans map to appropriate earnings codes, troubleshoot issues and testing.
• Maintain global annual holiday calendars and create background check packages.
• Manage Skills Cloud governance and related configuration.
• Address roadblocks to deliver enhancements aligned with Talent's strategic vision.
• Support implementation of new modules, integrations and system enhancements within Workday, understanding any downstream impact to decisions.
• Help ensure consistent technology adoption across Talent teams and BUs.
• Manage and build strong stakeholder relationships with the ability to keep stakeholders engaged; responsible and proactive in working toward planned goals and objectives, while connecting the dots across various Talent functions.
• Collaborate with external vendors to optimize Workday integrations, particularly immigration, background check and I-9 integrations.

Skills

Diplomacy

Confidentiality

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Communication

Customer service

Collaboration

Change management

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Analytical thinking

Critical thinking

Multitasking

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field

Tools

Workday

EIB

Job description

Crowe is seeking a Workday Absence & HCM Senior Analyst to support the delivery, optimization, and maintenance of Workday Absence, Skills Cloud and Core HCM across modules. You will configure, report, test, and manage projects while coordinating with Talent Solutions, IT, Payroll and vendors to ensure Workday meets business needs.

Two years of relevant Workday Absence and Core HCM configuration experience is required, along with strong communication and analytical skills.