Senior Workday Analyst, HRIS

Foundation for California Community Colleges; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Generous PTO and holidays

Medical, dental, vision plans

CalPERS retirement and 403(b/457

Job summary

FoundationCCC seeks a Senior Workday Analyst, HRIS to lead the design, configuration, and optimization of Workday across HCM, recruitment, onboarding, time tracking, and payroll. The role collaborates with the HRIS team to provide education, support, and escalation for complex issues, while maintaining security, data integrity, and vendor integrations.

The position requires strong stakeholder engagement, ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences, and influence without

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, information systems, human resources, or related field.
• 7+ years of Workday HCM configuration/administration experience.
• Experience with net-new or major Workday HCM re-engineering preferred.
• Experience across HR functions: HCM, recruitment, onboarding, benefits, payroll, reporting.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, and optimize Workday HRIS (HCM, Recruitment, Onboarding, Time Tracking, job classifications, benefits, reporting, payroll).
• Collaborate with HRIS team; provide education and mid-level support; escalate complex issues.
• Manage security, worktags, data, vendor tenant access, testing, and cross-domain architecture decisions.
• Translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders; align HRIS, IT, and Business Systems stakeholders.

Skills

Workday HCM

Domain design

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

Workday Studio

EIBs

Core connectors

Job description

Senior Workday Analyst, HRIS

100% Remote within California, Must reside in California

We 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.

What You’ll Do

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 teams
  • Serves 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 agency

• We’re recruiting for mission-driven, passionate, equity-minded individuals with a strong desire to impact and change people’s lives for the better

• Our work holds great weight and responsibility, and the opportunity to impact the lives of millions of individuals in California

• Innovation, creativity, collaboration, and entrepreneurship are encouraged as employees work to achieve organizational goals

• Team 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.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, generous PTO, and paid holidays

• Medical, dental, and vision plans, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts (HSA), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and Wellness offerings

• CalPERS retirement program and optional 403(b) and 457 Retirement plans

• Carrot reproductive health and fertility support

• Tuition reimbursement

• Public Service Loan Forgiveness certified employer

To see the full job description, please email [e-mail].

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.