An education organization is seeking a results-driven Senior Workday HCM Analyst to join the HR Technology team. The Senior Workday Analyst will play a critical part in the continued deployment of new functionality, developing solutions, and enabling the continued growth of the client.
***This is a hybrid role Tues-Thurs onsite in downtown NYC***

Responsibilities:
- Lead the configuration efforts for new and existing Workday functionality to provide maximum efficiency and effectiveness for employee and HR needs
- Guide others regarding Workday configuration changes to support the management of employee information changes (transfers, promotions, demotions, terminations, etc.), payroll and benefits updates, and changing information in appropriate systems
- Work with functional team members to understand requirements and communicate system capabilities/limitations
- Collaborate with key partners to create requirements documents, system configuration documents, detailed functional specification documents, test plans, and test cases
- Diagnose and resolve issues (e.g. end-user, work process, security, etc.)
- Maintain proper documentation to satisfy audit controls and compliance practices
- Provide standard and ad-hoc reporting from the Workday HCM application
- Create a true Workday HCM analytics capability for the organization
- Identify impact and enhancement opportunities associated with a new release and direct regression testing
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of Workday Business Process, Workday Reporting, and/or configurations experience
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university or equivalent work experience
- Advanced knowledge of Workday HCM and at least one other functional area: Benefits, Recruiting, Leave Management, Compensation, or Talent
- Solid project management skills that will help you track upcoming, ongoing, and past work products
- Experience using complex computer programs to mine data sources and look for trends
Desired Skills:
- Experience in Workday report writing, and dashboards
- Ability to analyze the data and articulate what data trends mean
- Demonstrated experience with the creation of evaluation tools, data analysis, and reporting
