Senior HRIS Lead - Workday & Reporting Expert

RXO Inc.; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision plans

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

EAP

Career and Leadership Development

Volunteer days

Job summary

RXO Inc. in Charlotte, NC, is seeking a Lead Analyst, HRIS to own and advance our Workday HR systems. You will translate business needs into scalable HRIS solutions, uphold data integrity, and support system enhancements and releases.

You’ll lead day-to-day HRIS operations across Workday HCM, Talent Acquisition, Time and Absence, Payroll, and reporting. Strong Excel and HR reporting skills, plus experience with Workday security, EIBs, and SOX controls, are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive Workday or HRIS experience in an enterprise environment.
• Hands-on configuration, reporting, testing, audits, and HR operations support.
• Experience with Workday HCM, Recruiting/TA, Compensation, Time & Absence, and Payroll.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day HRIS operations across Workday HCM, TA, Time and Absence, Payroll, Reporting, and related HR technology.
• Configure, test, and maintain Workday business processes, security, notifications, calculated fields, reports, dashboards, 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

Talent Acquisition

Payroll

Reporting

Security & SOX

UAT & Testing

Dashboards & EIBs

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HR/IS/CS

Tools

Workday

EIBs

Dashboards

Job description

RXO Inc. in Charlotte, NC, is seeking a Lead Analyst, HRIS to own and advance our Workday HR systems. You will translate business needs into scalable HRIS solutions, uphold data integrity, and support system enhancements and releases.

You’ll lead day-to-day HRIS operations across Workday HCM, Talent Acquisition, Time and Absence, Payroll, and reporting. Strong Excel and HR reporting skills, plus experience with Workday security, EIBs, and SOX controls, are essential.