Senior Workday HR Systems Analyst - Time, Absence & Payroll

Republic Services; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 99,800 - 137,300; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Retirement plan

ESPP

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Republic Services is seeking an experienced Workday Time, Absence and Payroll analyst to optimize configuration and support across modules. You will translate business needs into scalable Workday solutions, partner with COEs, Payroll, and HR Operations, and lead releases and UAT.

You will mentor junior analysts, ensure data integrity, and contribute to governance and continuous improvement while collaborating with engineers on integrations and security. This role is based in the U.S.

Qualifications

• 4–7+ years hands-on Workday HRIS experience.
• Deep understanding of Workday capabilities and configuration.
• Ability to diagnose system issues and present scalable solutions.
• Delivers high-quality work within timelines.
• Works well across HR, IT, engineers, and business partners.

Responsibilities

• Proactively identifies challenges, identifies root cause and designs scalable solutions and system configuration improvements
• Design and configure complex Workday business processes, condition rules, calculated fields, validations, alerts, notifications, eligibility rules, and EIB templates.
• Primary owner of complex workstreams and accountable for end-to‑end module impacts
• Responsible for configuration integrity and sustainability
• Mentors HR Systems Analyst(s) II and serves as an escalation point for complex configuration
• Provide guidance to Tier 1/Tier 2 HR support teams.
• Lead semi-annual release impact reviews, remediation, and regression testing for respective module(s).
• Coordinate UAT with COEs and HR Operations.
• Partner with Workday Engineers on technical feasibility and migration processes.
• Collaborate with Business Analysts to translate requirements into functional design.
• Partners with product owners, HR leaders, an COEs to consult on HR System needs
• Maintain configuration documentation, decision logs, and standards.
• Ensure documentation and controlled migration processes are followed.
• Performs other job related duties as assigned or apparent.

Skills

Workday HRIS

Workday configuration

Excel advanced

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Tools

Visio

Jira

MS Project

PowerPoint

Job description

Republic Services is seeking an experienced Workday Time, Absence and Payroll analyst to optimize configuration and support across modules. You will translate business needs into scalable Workday solutions, partner with COEs, Payroll, and HR Operations, and lead releases and UAT.

You will mentor junior analysts, ensure data integrity, and contribute to governance and continuous improvement while collaborating with engineers on integrations and security. This role is based in the U.S.