Senior HRIS Analyst — Workday & Planning Lead

NextDecade Payroll Services, LLC; United States; On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

NextDecade is seeking a Senior Analyst, HRIS to configure, administer, and optimize Workday across Core HCM, Benefits, Time Tracking, Payroll, and Talent Acquisition. The role partners with HR, IT, and business stakeholders to ensure data integrity and efficient processes.

You will support Advanced Compensation and workforce planning in Workday Adaptive Planning, perform data validation, testing, and issue resolution, and help deliver reliable reporting and user training.

Qualifications

• 5–7+ years of progressive HRIS experience with Workday or similar HCM platform.
• Experience supporting Core HCM, Benefits, Payroll, and Talent Acquisition.
• Experience in requirements gathering, testing, UAT, and deploying enhancements.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a functional Workday resource for Core HCM, Benefits, Time Tracking and Scheduling, Payroll, Talent Management.
• Support Open Enrollment configuration, testing, production readiness, data validation, issue resolution, and post-enrollment reconciliation.
• Partner with Payroll to support Time Tracking configurations, Payroll testing, troubleshooting, processing support, and reconciliations.
• Support Talent Acquisition processes, including job profile and position management, template creation, business process optimization, and ATS enhancements and related reporting, as applicable.
• Participate in the future implementation of Advanced Compensation and support compensation cycles after deployment.
• Support workforce planning activities within Workday Adaptive Planning, including data validation, testing, reporting, and issue resolution in partnership with HR and Finance stakeholders.
• Configure and maintain business processes, eligibility and validation rules, notifications, security assignments, and related system settings.
• Support Workday releases, enhancements, integrations, data loads, unit testing, UAT coordination, and production deployments.
• Develop and maintain reports, calculated fields, audits, and recurring data-quality controls.
• Troubleshoot system issues, perform root-cause analysis, and coordinate resolution with internal stakeholders and external vendors.
• Document requirements, configurations, test results, decisions, issues, procedures, and training materials; provide user support and training.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Requirements gathering

Testing/UAT

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HR, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field

Tools

Workday

Workday Adaptive Planning

Job description

NextDecade is seeking a Senior Analyst, HRIS to configure, administer, and optimize Workday across Core HCM, Benefits, Time Tracking, Payroll, and Talent Acquisition. The role partners with HR, IT, and business stakeholders to ensure data integrity and efficient processes.

You will support Advanced Compensation and workforce planning in Workday Adaptive Planning, perform data validation, testing, and issue resolution, and help deliver reliable reporting and user training.