Workday Workforce Management Administrator

Marathon Health LLC; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Marathon Health LLC is seeking a Workday Workforce Administrator to act as the functional SME for Scheduling, Time & Attendance, and Absence across our health center and virtual care teams. You will configure, optimize, and maintain these modules, partnering with Payroll, HRIS, and People Experience to ensure compliant, efficient processes.

This role requires hands-on configuration, testing, and continuous improvement to support accurate time capture and leave management.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Workday administrator for Scheduling, Time & Attendance, and Absence.
• Collaborates with Payroll, HRIS, and People Experience to ensure integrated processes.
• Configures, tests, and optimizes Workday modules to meet business needs.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the functional SME for Workday Scheduling, Time & Attendance, and Absence modules.
• Configure, test, implement, and maintain Workday functionality including time calculations and accrual rules.
• Configure business processes, notifications, security, validations, and system functionality.
• Continuously optimize Scheduling, Time & Attendance, and Absence to improve UX, efficiency, reporting, and adoption.
• Maintain functional documentation for configurations and change history.
• Troubleshoot system issues and provide functional support for time, attendance, absence, and scheduling.
• Own Jira Tickets and Workday Cases across Scheduling, Time & Attendance and Absence.
• Support compliance with wage and hour regulations through system configuration.

Skills

Workday Scheduling

Time & Attendance

Absence

Jira

Tools

Workday

Jira

Job description

Marathon Health is a leading advanced primary care provider, partnering with employer and union plan sponsors to improve health for millions of Americans. With nationwide onsite, nearsite, and network health centers, and virtual primary care, Marathon delivers a value-based model that enhances the healthcare experience for members and providers, while driving meaningful cost savings for plan sponsors. Marathon is proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work®, reflecting the company's commitment to building an inclusive, high-trust culture where all employees can thrive. Learn more at marathon.health

ABOUT THE JOB

The Workday Workforce Administrator serves as Marathon Health's functional subject matter expert for Workday Scheduling, Time & Attendance, and Absence, ensuring these modules are configured, optimized, scalable, and aligned with business needs across our health center workforce. This role combines Workday functional expertise with business process design, analytics, and continuous improvement to deliver an accurate, efficient, and compliant time capture, scheduling, and absence management experience for leaders and teammates. The Administrator is responsible for configuring, administering, optimizing, and continuously enhancing the Scheduling, Time & Attendance, and Absence modules, and partners closely with Payroll, HRIS, and People Experience to ensure these processes remain connected, compliant, and effective.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Workday System Administration & Configuration

• Serve as the functional subject matter expert for Workday Scheduling, Time & Attendance, and Absence modules.
• Configure, test, implement, and maintain Workday functionality including time calculations, time entry templates, work schedules, schedule tags, accrual rules, absence plans, and eligibility rules.
• Configure business processes, notifications, security impacts, validations, and system functionality aligned with organizational requirements.
• Continuously optimize Scheduling, Time & Attendance, and Absence functionality to improve user experience, efficiency, reporting, and adoption.
• Maintain functional documentation for system configurations, business processes, and change history.
• Troubleshoot system issues and provide functional support for time, attendance, absence, and scheduling processes.
• Ownership of all Jira Tickets and Workday Cases across Scheduling, Time & Attendance and Absence that require investigation & or configuration changes.
• Support compliance with wage and hour regulations, FLSA, and applicable state and local leave, sick time, and overtime requirements through system configuration.

Workday Release Management

• Review Workday feature releases and evaluate impacts to Scheduling, Time & Attendance, and Absence functionality.
• Recommend adoption of new Workday capabilities that improve business processes and user experience.
• Develop and execute testing strategies, including regression testing, for Workday updates, enhancements, and new functionality.

Time, Attendance & Absence Program Enablement

• Partner with Payroll to ensure accurate time capture, time calculations, and pay-impacting configurations.
• Configure and maintain scheduling functionality that supports staffing needs across health center and virtual care operations.
• Administer absence plans, accrual calculations, and leave of absence tracking, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Collaborate with HRIS, Payroll, and