Workday Analyst

McCarthy Tétrault is a Canadian law firm that offers a full suite of legal and business solutions to clients in Canada and around the world. At McCarthy Tétrault, we offer challenging and rewarding career opportunities in our offices in Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Calgary and Vancouver. We are delighted to have earned the distinction of one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers for the thirteenth consecutive year in 2025.

Our culture is built on professional excellence, collaboration, innovation, thought leadership and entrepreneurialism. We embrace inclusion in all its forms and we provide the tools and opportunities to help our people develop to their full potential.

The successful candidate must have a minimum of 3 years of Workday configuration experience and will be responsible for the system administration of Workday across the firm, as well as the configuration of our active modules to suit the firm’s needs and alignment to business goals and strategy. McCarthy Tétrault employees benefit from a hybrid work environment.

• Acting as a Workday SME and support the delivery of Workday projects and improvements across active modules (e.g., HCM, PATT, Talent & Performance, Learning, Advanced & Core Compensation, Integrations, Reporting, including required Security and Tenant Management).
• Understanding system and process implications (conduct downstream system analysis), identifying gaps/opportunities, recommending and building scalable solutions best for McCarthy, including the maintenance of employee lifecycle processes and master data tables (such as organizational and job structures).
• Working cross-functionally with HR, IT, Finance, and other teams to understand business needs, identifying user pain points, and translating these into requirements.
• Supporting testing activities with stakeholders to ensure they sign off on their relevant modules, for example: partnering on the creation of test scenarios, supporting the execution of testing, fixing defects and escalating risks, to eventual delivery.
• Supporting stakeholders and relevant team on change management and training activities such as documentation of process and system changes, drafting/updating communications and training guides (including system documentation and user guides).
• Supporting Workday releases for responsible modules: review release notes, identify value-add functionality, execute testing and eventual enablement in production.
• Ensuring data integrity within Workday and downstream systems through ongoing validation and audit processes and analyses.
• Proactively identifying pain points and opportunities to improve the user experience, maximize automations, and ensure data integrity, compliance and governance.
• Creating, maintaining and generating standard and custom ad-hoc reports and dashboards to stakeholders, to meet business needs.
• Providing day-to-day support to HR, IT, Professional Resources system users as a part of Tier 2 HRIS support to develop user guides, troubleshoot and resolve issues/bugs, data fixes, in order to ultimately provide the best support and experience to our end users.

• Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Information Technology, or equivalent experience preferred – particularly certifications(s) in any Workday module(s).
• Minimum 3 years of Workday configuration experience in one or more of the following work streams: HCM, PATT (Payroll, Absence, Time Tracking), Talent & Performance, Learning, Advanced & Core Compensation, Integrations, and Reporting.
• Working knowledge of people processes and best practices, and a passion for aligning technology solutions to business goals and user needs.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proven track record of successfully navigating technical challenges and finding meaningful solutions that enhance our digital people experience.
• Advanced Excel skills working with large data sets utilizing advanced formulas and functionality.
• Excellent research and…