Remote Workday HRIS Analyst (Learning)

HR Tech Job; Houston (TX); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

HR Tech Job is seeking a Senior HRIS Analyst with strong Workday Learning experience to support an onboarding automation workstream and enhance learning administration, reporting, security, and completion tracking.

The role requires a blend of functional and technical analysis, business process assessment, project management, auditing, and gap analysis. You will evaluate the current Workday Learning environment, identify inefficiencies and access gaps, and help deliver changes aimed for January.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of HRIS / Workday experience at senior analyst or consultant level.
• Strong hands-on Workday Learning experience and configuration knowledge.
• Experience in functional/technical audits, current-state assessments, and gap analyses.
• Strong understanding of Workday security and reporting.
• Ability to automate processes and document scalable procedures.

Responsibilities

• Audit Workday Learning assignments and audiences.
• Review course assignments, learner populations, audience rules, and cadences.
• Identify unnecessary course assignments, missing populations, and required trainings that need to be cleaned up.
• Evaluate manual processes and establish clear ownership for completion tracking and exception reporting.
• Improve training completion processes.
• Establish and document a reliable process for tracking learning completions for employees who do not have regular computer/network access.
• Develop and document the mass-upload process for learning completions.
• Define access requirements, request procedures, user guidance, and data-quality controls.
• Help create a repeatable workload process that can be maintained after the engagement.
• Revamp Workday Learning reporting and security.
• Assess existing Workday Learning reporting capabilities and security permissions.
• Identify why managers, site HR, trainers, SMEs, and HR administrators lack appropriate access to training completion data.
• Recommend role-based, self-service reporting access to reduce manual report requests. Help streamline how training completion data is accessed and distributed.
• Perform current-state assessments, audits, and gap analysis across Workday Learning processes.
• Document findings, recommendations, process changes, and ownership.
• Partner with HRIS, HR, Learning, and business stakeholders to drive decisions and implementation.
• Provide additional functional and analytical support on the backend to help deliver the targeted January timeline of changes.

Skills

Workday Learning

HRIS experience

Audit skills

Business process analysis

Project management

Stakeholder collaboration

Gap analysis

Tools

Workday Security

Data reporting tools

Job description

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior HRIS Analyst with strong Workday Learning experience to support an Onboarding Automation workstream and help improve the organization’s learning administration, reporting, security, and completion-tracking processes. The role requires more than Workday configuration expertise. The ideal consultant will bring a blend of functional/technical analysis, business process assessment, project management, auditing, and gap analysis. They will evaluate the current Workday Learning environment, identify inefficiencies and access gaps, establish sustainable processes, and support the delivery of planned changes targeted for January.

Key Responsibilities:

• Audit Workday Learning assignments and audiences

• Review current course assignments, learner populations, audience rules, and review cadences.

• Identify unnecessary course assignments, missing populations, and required trainings that need to be cleaned up.

• Evaluate manual processes and establish clear ownership for completion tracking and exception reporting.

• Improve training completion processes

• Establish and document a reliable process for tracking learning completions for employees who do not have regular computer/network access.

• Develop and document the mass-upload process for learning completions.

• Define access requirements, request procedures, user guidance, and data-quality controls.

• Help create a repeatable workload process that can be maintained after the engagement.

• Revamp Workday Learning reporting and security

• Assess existing Workday Learning reporting capabilities and security permissions.

• Identify why managers, site HR, trainers, SMEs, and HR administrators lack appropriate access to training completion data.

• Recommend role-based, self-service reporting access to reduce manual report requests. Help streamline how training completion data is accessed and distributed.

• Perform current-state assessments, audits, and gap analysis across Workday Learning processes.

• Document findings, recommendations, process changes, and ownership.

• Partner with HRIS, HR, Learning, and business stakeholders to drive decisions and implementation.

• Provide additional functional and analytical support on the backend to help deliver the targeted January timeline of changes.

Skills and Requirements

5+ years of HRIS / Workday experience, ideally at a senior analyst or consultant level. Strong hands-on experience with Workday Learning. Experience conducting functional/technical audits, current-state assessments, and gap analyses. Strong understanding of Workday security and reporting, particularly around user access and role-based reporting. Ability to evaluate existing processes and identify opportunities for automation and process improvement. Experience developing and documenting scalable business processes and operational procedures. Strong BA/PM skill set with the ability to work across technical and functional teams. Must bring broader functional and analytical expertise beyond Workday configuration alone.

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [e-mail].