Senior Workday Analyst, HRIS

Foundation for California Community Colleges; Sacramento (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

PTO and holidays

Medical, dental, and vision plans

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Wellness offerings

CalPERS retirement program

Tuition reimbursement

Public Service Loan Forgiveness

Job summary

FoundationCCC is hiring a Senior Workday Analyst, HRIS to support Workday HRIS across HCM, recruitment, onboarding, time tracking, and payroll in a remote CA environment.

The role partners with HRIS and IT teams, leads design and configuration, and mentors staff while ensuring data security, integrations, and cross‑functional alignment within a complex enterprise.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience administering, configuring, or designing Workday HCM.
• Experience with a net-new Workday HCM implementation or significant re-engineering is preferred.
• Experience across multiple HR functional areas (HCM, recruitment, onboarding, benefits, payroll, reporting).

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, and optimize Workday HRIS across HCM, Recruitment, Onboarding, Time Tracking, payroll.
• Lead testing and provide escalation support to Payroll and Finance teams.
• Mentor HRIS support staff and share Workday best practices.
• Manage security, data, vendor and tenant engagement within Workday domain.
• Translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and drive cross-functional alignment.

Skills

Workday HCM

HRIS administration

Cross-functional collaboration

Security administration

Vendor management

Testing & onboarding

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, information systems, HR, or related field

HR certification (SHRM-CP/SHRM-SCP/PHR) preferred

Tools

Workday Studio

EIBs

Core connectors

Job description

What You’ll Do

Senior Workday Analyst, HRIS100% Remote within California, Must reside in CaliforniaWe are seeking a Senior Workday Analyst, HRIS to join FoundationCCC in its mission of benefiting, supporting, and enhancing the California Community Colleges—the largest and most diverse system of higher education in the nation. Together, we are building stronger communities by getting students and colleges the resources they need to succeed and expanding pathways to economic and social mobility across California. Join us as we continue this important work to uphold the value of community colleges in building a brighter future.

This position within Business Systems is responsible for the domain design, configuration, and continuous optimization of Workday as the Foundation's enterprise HRIS platform, spanning HCM, Recruitment, Onboarding, Time Tracking, job classifications, benefits administration, data integrations (I/O), reporting, and payroll.This position works in close partnership with the Foundation's HRIS team, which provides frontline user education and mid-level functional support. This position serves as the escalation point for complex issues involving major loss of functionality, and as a cross-functional mentor and subject matter expert to the HRIS team, building its capability over time through knowledge transfer. Within the HRIS domain, this position is accountable for platform-level responsibilities: security administration, worktags, data management, vendor tenant access, escalated testing, and vendor and tenant engagement. It partners with Business Systems counterparts on cross-domain items such as worktags. The Foundation's Workday Platform Architect holds full, platform-wide system oversight across HCM and Finance; this position escalates cross-domain or platform-wide architecture decisions to that role rather than carrying them directly.Under general direction, this position serves as a subject matter expert and internal consultant, exercising independent judgment and discretion to evaluate platform capabilities, determine appropriate technical approaches, and advise HRIS and Business Systems leadership on system design, risk, and roadmap decisions. This position does not supervise staff, but it carries significant cross-functional influence and depends on strong consensus‑building skills to align HRIS, IT, and Business Systems stakeholders around shared solutions. Because Workday HRIS touches sensitive employee, compensation, and payroll data across the entire organization, this person must be skilled at building alignment across teams with competing priorities and earning trust without formal authority over the teams whose processes the platform supports.

Workday HRIS Platform and Domain Design

Deep, hands‑on expertise in Workday HCM (or a comparable top-tier enterprise HRIS/HCM platform), including recruitment, onboarding, job classifications and position management, benefits administration, reporting, and payroll.

Escalation, Testing, and Team Enablement

Leads feature updates and functionality testing, provides troubleshooting and escalation support to the Payroll and Finance teamsServes as a cross‑functional mentor and subject matter expert to HRIS support staff, advising on Workday best practices and troubleshooting techniques, supporting resolution of escalated issues, and leading knowledge transfer that builds and maintains internal subject matter expertise, reducing the volume of escalations over time.

Security, Data, and Vendor Management

Builds and maintains complex integrations (e.g., Workday Studio, EIBs, core connectors) within the HCM domain, built to the integration and security standards set by the Workday Platform Architect, supporting HR, benefits, and payroll data flows.

Digital Transformation and Stakeholder Engagement

Ability to translate complex technical concepts for HRIS and Payroll support staff and non‑technical stakeholders.A consensus‑building advisor able to work across HR, IT, and Business Systems, aligning stakeholders with competing priorities and earning trust without direct authority.

Attributes for Success

Bachelor's degree in business, information systems, human resources, or a related field, OR an equivalent combination of education and experience.7+ years of experience administering, configuring, or designing Workday HCM (or a comparable top‑tier enterprise HRIS/HCM platform), including demonstrated experience operating at an advanced configuration level.Experience with a net‑new Workday HCM implementation, or a significant re‑engineering of an existing Workday HCM tenant, is strongly preferred.Demonstrated experience across multiple HR functional areas (HCM, recruitment, onboarding, benefits administration, payroll, reporting).SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, or another HR certification is preferred but not required.Project Management certification (e.g., PMP, CAPM) is a plus but not required.Experience in an education or nonprofit environment is a plus.FoundationCCC blends the impact of a non‑profit, the culture of an entrepreneurial start‑up, and the scale of a state agencyWe’re recruiting for mission‑driven, passionate, equity‑minded individuals with a strong desire to impact and change people’s lives for the betterOur work holds great weight and responsibility, and the opportunity to impact the lives of millions of individuals in CaliforniaInnovation, creativity, collaboration, and entrepreneurship are encouraged as employees work to achieve organizational goalsTeam members are hired for their expertise in niche areas across our areas of impact and higher education overall, and for their knowledge of business, philanthropy, technology, communications, and more.

What we Offer

FoundationCCC is fully committed to a “remote-first” philosophy, and recruits and hires talent across the state in fully remote positions, where virtual work is possible. Our headquarters are located in Downtown Sacramento, just blocks from California’s State Capitol.BenefitsCompetitive compensation, generous PTO, and paid holidaysMedical, dental, and vision plans, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts (HSA), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and Wellness offeringsCalPERS retirement program and optional 403(b) and 457 Retirement plansCarrot reproductive health and fertility supportTuition reimbursementPublic Service Loan Forgiveness certified employer

Budgeted Annual Salary Pay Range:$120,000.00 - $125,000.00

Final salary and rates are based on education, experience, skills relevant to the role, and internal equity.