Sr. People Systems Analyst

Harvey Harvey · AI Frontier · New York, NY · IT

This role is for a Sr. People Systems Analyst focused on Workday Compensation configuration. Responsibilities include maintaining compensation plans, supporting review cycles, building reports, managing integrations, and configuring security roles. The role requires deep expertise in Workday Compensation modules and experience with reporting, security, integrations, or benefits.

What you'd actually do

  1. Configure and maintain Workday Compensation plans, including base pay, bonus targets, one-time payments, equity grants, and compensation grade profiles across multiple countries.
  2. Support annual and mid-year compensation review cycles end-to-end — including integration with performance management tools, compensation change loads, compensation statements, and manager reporting.
  3. Build and maintain custom reports and dashboards in Workday to support People Ops, Total Rewards, Finance, Payroll, and cross-functional stakeholders with compensation data, headcount reporting, incentive compensation tracking, and compliance audits.
  4. Support the implementation and configuration of the Advanced Compensation module within Workday, including compensation planning cycles, merit increases, bonus calculations, and equity refresh processes.
  5. Manage Workday integrations related to compensation data — including connections to payroll systems, market data providers (e.g., Pave, Radford), ATS platforms (e.g., Ashby), and financial planning tools.

Skills

Required

  • Workday configuration
  • Workday administration
  • Workday Compensation modules
  • Workday custom report writing
  • Workday security configuration
  • Workday integrations (EIBs, Core Connectors, RAAS)
  • Stakeholder management

Nice to have

  • Workday reporting
  • Workday security roles
  • Workday integrations
  • Workday benefits
  • Advanced Compensation module
  • compensation planning
  • equity grant processes
  • compensation statements
  • market data providers (Pave, Radford)
  • ATS platforms (Ashby)
  • financial planning tools

What the JD emphasized

  • Minimum 5 years of experience in Workday configuration and administration, with deep hands-on expertise in Compensation modules
  • Proven experience supporting compensation review cycles within Workday
  • Strong proficiency in Workday custom report writing
  • Experience with Workday security configuration
  • Experience building and managing Workday integrations