Workday Student Analyst

WDBeacon; United States; Remote; USD 78,000 - 108,000; Full time

Job summary

Berklee seeks a Workday Student Analyst to support Workday Student operations across our campuses and online. Reporting to the Senior Director, Workday Strategy and Operations, the Workday Student Analyst will work closely with the Workday functional and technical leads, while technically supporting the Registrar and Academic Affairs.

This position will collaborate with business partners to identify, recommend, and implement system improvements and enhancements, including reporting, dashboards,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years in higher education student operations (registrar, admissions, advising, etc).
• Direct Workday Student experience is required.
• Strong ability to map complex business processes into diagrams/documentation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to translate technical concepts for diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support Workday Student operations across campuses and online.
• Configure modules (Admissions, Records, Advising) and ensure data quality.
• Test changes, participate in regression testing, and coordinate continuous testing.
• Support biannual Workday release cycles and change management.
• Create and maintain custom reports, queries, and dashboards; develop user training materials.
• Collaborate across student-services SMEs, operational staff, and management to translate requirements.

Skills

Workday Student experience

Business analysis

Process mapping

Communication

Stakeholder management

Self management

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Higher education operations experience

Tools

Google Workspace

Smartsheet

Job description

Job Description:

Berklee seeks a Workday Student Analyst to support Workday Student operations across our campuses and online. Reporting to the Senior Director, Workday Strategy and Operations, the Workday Student Analyst will work closely with the Workday functional and technical leads, while technically supporting the Registrar and Academic Affairs. This position will collaborate with business partners to identify, recommend, and implement system improvements and enhancements, including reporting, dashboards, and configuration changes that will enable Workday to support Berklee’s strategic and operational priorities. The role will also function as a quality assurance and change management advocate to manage Workday’s bi-annual release cycles.

At Berklee, creativity, innovation, work-life balance, and mission-driven work guide our culture. Operating in a deeply student-centered environment, staff work collaboratively across teams to empower student success. Remote work is possible for this position.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Request Management & Troubleshooting: Support intake tickets for Workday student-related requests; support enhancement requests, reporting requests, brakes/fixes; and troubleshoot system issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement permanent solutions.
• Module Configuration & Workflows: Maintain and configure Workday Student modules, including Admissions, Records, and Advising, and partner with the Workday platform team to enforce data quality standards and optimize workflows.
• Testing & Change Control: Test all changes and participate in change control; participate in Workday Student project testing and regression testing; build regression and acceptance test scenarios and coordinate continuous testing strategies with business process owners; and test integrations between Workday and external systems using Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB).
• Implementation & Deployment: Support final implementation phases (building into production, testing, validations, report validation) and support deployment tasks including catch up, first registration, operational training.
• Reporting, Documentation & Release Management: Create and maintain custom reports, queries, and user dashboards; create and maintain end-user training materials, documentation, and job aids; monitor the Workday Community for upcoming feature updates; and analyze, assess impact, prototype, test, and deploy changes for biannual Workday releases.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Consult with and collaborate across student-services SMEs, operational staff, and management, and analyze and translate functional specifications and change requests into technical specifications to design functionality based on business and technical requirements.

Required Experience & Skills

• Education & Professional Experience: Bachelor’s degree and relevant business analysis and/or business analyst training and experience required, along with 3+ years experience or exposure to higher education student administrative operations required (e.g. registrar operations, admissions/recruiting, academic program/curriculum administration, academic advising, student accounts, financial aid, etc). Direct experience with Workday Student required.
• Technical Aptitude & Systems: Strong understanding of data integration between systems and/or experience working with IT, strong understanding of data integrations and system architecture, and experience with other Higher Ed ERP/CRM systems (Colleague, PowerCampus, Salesforce) is preferred.
• Business Process Analysis: Intellectual curiosity with a proven ability to map complex business processes into visual diagrams/documentation.
• Communication & Stakeholder Management: Excellent written and verbal communication skills – including the ability to impart ideas in both technical and user-friendly language, demonstrating natural ease and effectiveness working across levels and teams with varying levels of ambiguity or uncertainty, and ability to translate technical jargon into user-friendly language for diverse stakeholders.
• Relationship Building: Strength and experience building relationships and collaborating across lines of difference, balancing stakeholders needs, managing expectations, and leading/owning cross-team projects with great attention to detail, as well as a proven track record of building positive relationships within a highly diverse campus community.
• Self Management: Self-motivated ability to work independently, prioritize multiple tasks, and manage ambiguity.
• Productivity Tools: Experience with Google Workspace/G Suite productivity apps (e.g. Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, etc) and Smartsheet preferred.

Hiring Range: $78,000 to $108,000; salary dependent on relevant experience and education. Please visit the Total Rewards page to learn more about the benefits of working at Berklee.

This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” employment relationship.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Equal Employment Opportunity at Berklee:

We support an inclusive workplace where everyone excels based on personal merit, qualifications, experience, ability, and job performance. Berklee affirms that inequality is detrimental to our faculty, staff, students, and the communities we serve. Our goal is to make lasting change through our actions. Berklee is committed to providing fair and equitable consideration of all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, ancestry, age, national origin, place of birth, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, or status as a member of the armed forces or veteran of the armed forces, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.

As part of this commitment, Berklee will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact the Human Resources Team at [e-mail] or call 617-747-2375.

*Currently enrolled Berklee students are not permitted to apply for staff or faculty positions.*

Employee Type:Staff