Senior Workday Business Analyst – HCM & HRIS Solutions

Motion Industries; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Industries in Birmingham, AL is seeking a Senior Workday Business Analyst to translate requirements into Workday specifications, and to partner with HR, Payroll, Finance and IT to deliver scalable Workday solutions.

You will own end-to-end processes, support testing, and drive continuous improvement across Workday modules, ensuring data quality, compliance and a great employee experience.

This role offers a path to influence enterprise HR systems within a large multi-function organization.

Qualifications

• Translate business requirements into functional specifications, user stories, and tests.
• Lead requirements sessions and workshops with HR, Payroll, Finance, and IT partners.
• Analyze current-state processes and design future-state Workday solutions.
• Partner with configuration, reporting and security teams for scalable Workday solutions.
• Support Workday enhancements, releases, upgrades, regression testing, and production support.

Responsibilities

• Serve as liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams to gather Workday requirements
• Lead requirements sessions, process reviews, and discovery workshops with HR, Payroll, Compensation, Benefits, Talent, Finance, and IT partners
• Translate business needs into clear functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and testable requirements
• Analyze current-state processes, identify gaps, recommend improvements, and support future-state design aligned with Workday capabilities and business objectives
• Partner with configuration, integration, reporting, and security teams to ensure Workday solutions are scalable, secure, compliant, and operationally effective
• Support Workday enhancements, releases, upgrades, regression testing, production support, and defect resolution across assigned functional areas
• Develop and maintain documentation, including business requirements, functional design documents, test scripts and support procedures
• Coordinate and support system testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing, issue triage, and business readiness activities
• Monitor integration health, data trends, and user feedback to recommend support improvements
• Maintain strong knowledge of Workday functionality, release updates, business process framework, reporting, security concepts, and HR technology best practices

Skills

Requirements gathering

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

Technical translation

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems or HR

Tools

Workday HCM

Workday integration

HRIS systems

Testing tools

Job description

Motion Industries in Birmingham, AL is seeking a Senior Workday Business Analyst to translate requirements into Workday specifications, and to partner with HR, Payroll, Finance and IT to deliver scalable Workday solutions.

You will own end-to-end processes, support testing, and drive continuous improvement across Workday modules, ensuring data quality, compliance and a great employee experience.

This role offers a path to influence enterprise HR systems within a large multi-function organization.