Senior Specialist, Workday HCM

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Replacement of a temporary position Job Type: Employee Anticipated Duration in Months (for contracts and temporary assignments): 12 Job Family:
Business Systems Analysis # of Open Positions: 1 Faculty/Service
- Department: HR Systems Team, FIN-HR Applications and Support Campus:
Main Campus Union Affiliation: SSUO Date Posted (YYYY/MM/DD): 2026/08/20 Applications must be received BEFORE (YYYY/MM/DD): 2026/08/31 Hours per week: 35 Salary Grade: SSUO Grade 11 Salary Range: $95,594.00 - $

Reporting to the Senior Manager, HR Applications and Support, provides guidance and support to clients by translating business requirements into technical specifications particularly in relations to Human Capital Management, such as compensation, talent management, recruitment, time and absence, payroll, HR AI Components. Configures, maintains, and develops Workday (and similar cloud applications in the HR application ecosystem) modules on Human Capital Management and supports their comprehensive testing.

Performs data analytics, develops reporting, and supports process optimization initiatives. Works closely with units across campus and possesses a solid understanding of business operations, policies, regulatory requirements, systems, and priorities in relations to Human Capital Management. Possesses a customer-centric mindset and directly supports stakeholders and product owners on their requests. Delivers training, develops user guides, and supports change management initiatives.

Its work directly contributes to administrative efficiency and service quality. Supports management with insights conducive to strategic and impactful decision-making. Maintains the effectiveness and efficiency of its systems to meet business objectives and reporting obligations.

• Business and technical support:
  Intimately understands customers’ operational and strategic needs and provides expert advice to improve procedures or system configurations. Offers a simple, seamless, and collaborative stakeholder experience to customers. Reviews system capabilities and workflows and identifies ways to simplify the client’s experience. Addresses inefficiencies or configuration issues and escalates as necessary. Assists clients in the evaluation of their current processes and identifies new techniques to take full advantage of system capabilities.
  
  Keeps apprised of evolving industry tools and business processes and recommends improvements.
• Business process & system maintenance:
  Maintains and modifies business processes, workflows, naming conventions, and data masters in accordance with approved design principles, governance frameworks, and institutional business rules, procedures, and policies. Assigns security roles and develops custom reports. Identifies and resolves quality problems and troubleshoots and fixes bugs. Monitors master data relationships, ensures master data integrity (by addressing record duplications, format inconsistencies, incompleteness, inaccuracies, etc).
• Change management:
  Supports continuous improvements and change management efforts across the University and ensures smooth transitions from current to desired business practices.

• University Degree in Commerce, Administration, Business Technology Management or/and an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience supporting business units and their system needs.
• Experience supporting Workday HCM and Payroll (configurations, business process, reporting, AI components…) Thorough knowledge and experience of HR business processes, rules, policies, priorities, and regulations related to Human Capital Management, compensation and/or pension and benefits.
• Experience in project and change management.
• Knowledge of the administrative operations of public institutions.
• Experience with Microsoft Excel, Business Intelligence, or other data management tools to manipulate, convert, clean, and present complex data.
• Knowledge of computing principles and the configuration and development of HR technical applications.
• Experience conducting…