Senior HR Tech Analyst: Workday Compensation Expert

Toyota North America; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Team Member Vehicle Purchase Discount

401(k) with company match

Paid holidays and PTO

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Toyota North America is seeking an Advanced Compensation – Senior HR Technical Analyst to lead hands-on technical work in our Workday compensation ecosystem. You will own readiness for annual and off-cycle events, drive data integrity, and partner with work streams to ensure reliable execution in a complex HR tech environment.

The role is based in Plano, TX, with expectations to reside within commutable distance.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in HR Technology or HRIS.
• Experience supporting or leading annual compensation cycles and/or off-cycle changes in an HRIS environment.
• Gathering requirements, writing user stories or functional requirements, supporting testing, and partnering with technical teams through delivery.
• Strong analytical skills, including data validation, issue investigation, and root-cause analysis.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences and produce strong documentation.
• Working understanding of data privacy and access concepts for sensitive employee and compensation data.

Responsibilities

• Keep compensation cycles running strong (salary + hourly): Own end-to-end technical readiness for annual, mid-cycle, hourly events, and off-cycle compensation changes; ensure stable integrations and clean data flows across Workday and downstream systems.
• Operational excellence: Lead issue resolution, root-cause analysis, and defect prevention; establish regression planning, validation activities, and monitoring to improve reliability over time.
• Drive Job Catalog maturity & Job Profile data expansion: Steward job architecture data; ensure Job Profiles are accurate, complete, and structured to support analytics, career architecture, skills frameworks, and compensation modeling; define data governance rules, appropriate adoption and audit for business objects within the process.
• Technical analysis and solution leadership: Serve as the lead analyst for Advanced Compensation, helping define priorities, analyze business needs, translate requirements into technical documentation, and partner with Workday configuration and integration teams to support delivery without directly owning configuration work.
• Technical & data excellence: Ensure design patterns align with enterprise standards and Workday best practices; assess upstream/downstream impacts; partner with data and reporting teams to ensure compensation and job data are accurate, timely, and usable.
• Change & release management: Coordinate testing cycles, release readiness, communications, and training support for impacted users; proactively identify risks and drive mitigation and scenario planning.

Skills

HR Technology

HRIS

Requirements gathering

Data analysis

Documentation

Communication

Tools

Workday

Job description

Toyota North America is seeking an Advanced Compensation – Senior HR Technical Analyst to lead hands-on technical work in our Workday compensation ecosystem. You will own readiness for annual and off-cycle events, drive data integrity, and partner with work streams to ensure reliable execution in a complex HR tech environment.

The role is based in Plano, TX, with expectations to reside within commutable distance.