Workday Business Systems Analyst, People Systems

Anthropic; California (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic in the United States is seeking a talented Workday Business Systems Analyst to own the configuration, testing, and operations of our Workday HRIS across PATT and HCM domains. You will refine payroll, absence, and time tracking setup and shape design decisions as they arise.

You will partner with Payroll, IT, Finance, and People teams to ensure secure, scalable HRIS processes, lead testing for Workday releases, and translate business requirements into reliable system configurations.

Qualifications

• Experience configuring Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking in Workday.
• Knowledge of HCM data models, org structures, and security.
• Ability to lead testing and adoption of Workday releases.

Responsibilities

• Configure and maintain Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking in PATT/HCM domains.
• Design and implement business processes, rules, validations, and approvals.
• Lead security and data audits, and analyze access patterns.

Skills

Workday

Payroll configuration

HCM

Security model

Testing

Business process

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Workday HRIS

Job description

About Anthropic

Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

Anthropic is seeking a talented and driven Workday Business Systems Analyst to join our People Systems team. You'll own the technical configuration, testing, and operational excellence of our Workday HRIS across two domains: PATT and HCM. Your deepest work will be on the PATT side, where you'll refine our existing payroll, absence, and time tracking configuration and shape PATT design decisions as they're made. On the HCM side, you'll own core HCM data structures, business process frameworks, and the security model that underpins everything we do in Workday. You'll be relied on as a system expert for both strategic guidance and hands‑on delivery.

This role is about moving the team forward, not just keeping the system running. The right candidate is passionate about where AI and internal tooling can make People Systems more effective, and treats "the way it's always been done" as a starting point to question rather than a constraint.

We're looking for someone who is naturally curious and an exceptional problem solver — the kind of person who looks beyond the obvious or "standard" Workday answer and asks why before how. You'll find success in this role if you thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment and know how to reprioritize without losing rigor. You'll partner across many parts of the business, from the broader People team to Finance, IT, and beyond, to make sure our HRIS is secure, scalable, and a true business enabler.

Responsibilities

PATT and HCM

• Configure and maintain Payroll: pay components, earnings and deductions, pay groups, period schedules, and payroll-related business processes
• Configure and maintain Absence: time-off plans, accrual rules, eligibility criteria, and leave types
• Configure and maintain Time Tracking: time entry templates, validations, work schedules and calendars, and overtime calculations
• Configure and maintain Core HCM foundations: supervisory organizations, staffing models, job profiles and job/compensation structures, custom organizations, and worker data integrity
• Support annual and recurring People cycles in Workday, including compensation review setup, open enrollment configuration, and org restructures (mass supervisory org changes and job catalog updates)
• Design, build, and maintain business process definitions in both domains, including condition rules, calculated fields, custom validations, routing and approval logic, and notifications
• Partner with the Payroll team to troubleshoot configuration‑driven payroll issues, including gross‑to‑net discrepancies, retro calculations, and off‑cycle errors - the Payroll team owns processing; you own the configuration behind it
• Bring a strong command of the Workday security model: role‑based, user‑based, and intersection security groups, domain security policies, business process security policies, and integration system users (ISUs), with sound judgment about when to leverage each as you configure and troubleshoot across domains
• Support security and data audits in partnership with the broader team, using Workday delivered and custom audit reports to analyze access patterns, remediate exceptions, and uphold segregation of duties
• Perform impact analysis before changes ship, including how HCM and security changes ripple into payroll, absence, and time data
• Lead testing and adoption for Workday's twice‑yearly releases across both domains: assess new features, run regression testing on critical business processes and security, and drive rollout of features we opt into

Across the platform

• Translate business requirements from our internal partners into scalable system design, and document configuration decisions as you go
• Build trusted relationships with partner teams, acting as a translator between technical configuration and business needs