Staff Hris Analyst, People Technology - Workday

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This role is for a Staff HRIS Analyst focused on Workday, responsible for owning and evolving people systems. The role involves driving the HRIS roadmap, leading Workday configuration and releases, building and governing integrations, defining security and access governance, creating reports and dashboards, and driving mass data changes. The ideal candidate will have deep Workday expertise, experience in a public company with SOX ITGC requirements, and an AI-forward approach to people technology, actively experimenting with AI tools to automate workflows and accelerate analysis.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the HRIS product roadmap—proactively identifying gaps, championing improvements, and driving system evolution that reduces friction and enables scale across People operations.
  2. Push past surface-level requests to diagnose root needs, challenge assumptions, and co-design solutions that are durable, efficient, and built to last.
  3. Lead Workday configuration, release readiness, and testing for annual People programs and system updates to support on-time launches and smoother releases.
  4. Build and govern integrations across the People technology ecosystem, including troubleshooting issues and improving system reliability and uptime.
  5. Define and enforce security and access governance practices across People systems—navigating SOX ITGC requirements with fluency, keeping innovation moving rather than stalled.

Skills

Required

  • Deep, hands-on Workday expertise across HCM, compensation, benefits, time tracking, talent, performance, and security
  • Experience building and scaling people technology in a public company environment
  • Working knowledge of SOX ITGC requirements
  • Ability to approach people systems with a product ownership mindset
  • Strong integration experience, including Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) and related Workday ecosystem tools
  • Strong communication skills
  • Sound judgment in assessing business impact, downstream effects, and change management implications
  • Consulting instincts and presence
  • Intellectual curiosity and a bias for action

Nice to have

  • Actively experimenting with and applying AI tools to automate workflows, accelerate analysis, and eliminate manual work
  • Helping the team build the literacy to do the same

What the JD emphasized

  • public company compliance requirements
  • SOX ITGCs
  • SOX ITGC requirements