Senior HCM Analyst, Workday

Senior Hcm Analyst, Workday

At Cast & Crew, we've empowered creativity and supported the global entertainment industry for decades. Together with our family of brands - Backstage, CAPS, Checks & Balances, Final Draft, Media Services, Sargent-Disc, and The TEAM Companies – we operate as a combined entertainment technology and services provider offering industry standard screenwriting accounting software, digital payroll products, data & reporting, and a host of creative tools.

The industry continues to move faster than ever, and the need for our expertise, our technology, and our people has never been greater. We are a production's best ally every step of the way. #One Cast One Crew

The Senior HCM Analyst, Workday, serves as a functional and technical subject matter expert responsible for the administration, maintenance, optimization, and continued evolution of our Workday HCM.

The role will own core Workday system support and ongoing process improvement, while partnering with People Systems leadership, HR Business Partners, HR Operations, and other cross-functional stakeholders on business enablement, strategic initiatives, integrations, and system enhancements. The role requires strong Workday configuration expertise, including business processes, integrations, reporting, and security, as well as experience working in a global or multi-entity environment with country-specific requirements.

Success requires both reliable ownership of the system's day-to-day functional needs and a continuous-improvement mindset: resolving immediate issues while strengthening the processes, configuration, and technical foundation behind them.

Core System Support & Administration

• Serve as a primary Workday HCM subject matter expert, independently troubleshooting and resolving complex system, configuration, data, and process issues.
• Own ongoing Workday administration and maintenance across Workday foundational structures and functionality, such as business processes, positions, job profiles, supervisory organizations, security, reporting, organizational changes, integrations, and file feeds.
• Build Workday capability across the People team by providing guidance, training, and support for routine system tasks, data maintenance, and reporting, while serving as the escalation point for issues.
• Diagnose and correct business process errors, configuration issues, data discrepancies, and downstream impacts to maintain system stability, accuracy, and an effective end-user experience.
• Maintain system integrity and data quality through proactive monitoring, audits, testing, documentation, and issue resolution.
• Monitor and support integrations, scheduled processes, file feeds, and related interfaces; investigate failures and coordinate resolution with internal technical teams and external partners as needed.
• Create and maintain system documentation, configuration references, process workflows, testing materials, and user guidance to support sustainable system administration.

Process Improvement & Automation

• Maintain a continuous pipeline of Workday enhancements and process improvements that reduce manual work, strengthen controls, and improve the employee and manager experience.
• Evaluate existing workflows and configure sustainable solutions using Workday functionality, including notifications, approvals, routing, validations, eligibility rules, calculated fields, and related automation.
• Design, test, implement, and document enhancements to support evolving HR processes and business requirements, including global or country-specific needs.
• Proactively identify opportunities to simplify processes, eliminate redundant steps, improve data quality, and increase appropriate employee and manager self-service.
• Develop and maintain system documentation, configuration records, process workflows, testing materials, and user guidance to support sustainable operations and knowledge transfer.

Business Enablement & Reporting

• Partner with People & Culture, cross-functional teams, and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into effective Workday solutions.
• Develop and enhance reports, dashboards, business processes and other configurations in partnership with process owners, balancing business needs with system governance and controls.
• Partner with process owners to prioritize enhancements and assess requests for technical feasibility, dependencies, security considerations, downstream impacts, and scalability.
• Provide technical guidance and enable adoption for stakeholders, communicating and documenting complex Workday concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Strategic, Technical & Cyclical Initiatives

• Partner with People leadership and cross-functional teams on strategic Workday initiatives including integrations, job architecture, large-scale automation, and new or expanded functionality.
• Design, test, and deploy practical enhancements supporting evolving business and geographic needs, including new processes or…