Workday Payroll & Financial Analyst

Workday Payroll & Financials Analyst

Location: 100% Remote (occasional on-site travel during Workday implementation, negotiable)

Hire Type: FTE / Direct Placement

Position Summary

This is a senior role responsible for Workday architecture, governance, integration, and optimization. Leads enterprise-wide Workday initiatives, including system design, configuration, and strategic roadmap development. The individual acts as a senior liaison between stakeholders, IT, and Enterprise Leadership to ensure solutions align with evolving business needs, regulatory requirements and long-term technology strategy.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Skills:

• Designs and configures Workday modules across assigned functional area.
• Oversees complex Workday integrations using Workday Studio, EIB, and middleware platforms.
• Leads performance tuning, system audits, data quality governance, and compliance activities.
• Develops advanced security frameworks, role-based access models, and audit controls.
• Defines enterprise reporting standards leveraging Workday Reporting and Prism Analytics.
• Manages technical aspects of Workday system upgrades, including configuration updates, regression testing, and validation of new features.
• Ensures technical readiness for Workday release cycles and coordinates upgrade-related tasks across teams.

Communication and Influencing Skills:

• Develops and manages detailed work plans and timelines for Workday projects.
• Identifies resources needed to complete assigned tasks and provides timely status reports.
• Drives consensus among functional stakeholders and IT on system solutions.
• Facilitates leadership briefings to present technical strategy, project milestones, and ROI analyses.
• Authors strategic documentation and governance standards.

Customer Relationship Skills:

• Develops strong relationships with business end-user communities and external Workday partners.
• Clearly articulates Workday concepts, design decisions and impacts.
• Serves as advisor to business leaders regarding Workday capabilities and opportunities.
• Champions user adoption and optimization initiatives.

Cross-Functional Integration and Reporting:

• Leads design, build, and testing of Workday integrations.
• Develops and documents data transformation rules and reconciliation procedures.
• Leads efforts to standardize and streamline reporting practices.
• Collaborates with enterprise architecture teams to ensure Workday interoperability and scalability.
• Coordinates integration testing and validation during Workday upgrade cycles to ensure seamless functionality across systems.
• Partners with cross-functional teams assess impact of new Workday features on existing integrations and reporting frameworks.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree or 6 years equivalent experience
• Workday Pro Certification PMP, ITIL
• Workday certified HCM and Fin preferred

Experience

• 6+ years of progressive experience in Workday systems design, implementation, and support
• Experience leading Workday implementations and governance.
• Experience in healthcare or higher education