HRIS Manager

• Lead Walbec Group's HRIS team and run the Workday platform day to day
• Serve as Platform Administrator and approve day-to-day production changes
• Enforce sandbox-first protocols, intake controls, documentation, testing, and downstream validation
• Sign off on semi-annual Workday releases after impact assessment and regression testing
• Maintain governance documentation, change logs, and configuration decision records
• Configure Workday business processes, security, calculated fields, custom reports, and EIBs
• Personally perform configuration during peak cycles, analyst absences, and critical incidents
• Review, test, and reject analyst and managed-services partner work when warranted
• Lead design for new module deployments
• Configure and administer the Workday security model and run access review cycles
• Maintain the HRIS backlog and delivery plan against the SVP-set roadmap
• Own change management and communications for new modules and material configuration changes
• Lead cross-module, analytical, and strategic reporting
• Own tenant-wide data integrity and data quality remediation planning
• Oversee the Workday-to-CMiC payroll interface and production integration portfolio
• Coordinate with IT on integration infrastructure, connectivity, and identity
• Manage managed-services partners, Tier 3 escalations, consultants, and staff augmentation resources
• Own Workday-side delivery for annual benefits Open Enrollment and other recurring annual events
• Directly manage the HRIS Business Analyst and Integrations, Payroll & Benefits Analyst
• Establish cross-training, resolve ownership issues, and coach analysts technically and managerially

• Seven or more years of Workday experience, including at least one full deployment carried through go-live and into stabilization
• Hands-on Workday configuration in a production tenant, with depth in Core HCM — business processes, security, calculated fields, custom reports, and EIBs
• Experience operating a Workday tenant inside an organization, rather than exclusively implementation consulting
• Direct people management of HRIS or technical analysts, including work assignment, performance management, and development
• Hands-on Workday security administration in a production tenant, with the ability to design, configure, and defend a security model
• Ownership of Workday release management, including impact assessment, regression testing, UAT coordination, and release sign-off
• Integration oversight capability, with sufficient fluency in EIB, Core Connectors, and Studio to scope, direct, test, and reject partner work
• Demonstrated ability to apply and enforce governance standards with functional leaders outside the direct reporting line
• Experience directing external consultants and staff augmentation resources, including onboarding them to internal standards and holding them accountable to defined deliverables
• Experience delivering annual benefits Open Enrollment in Workday, including event build, testing, cutover, carrier feed readiness, and post-enrollment reconciliation
• Clear, plain communication with field-facing managers and executive leadership
• Workday Pro certification in HCM, and in one or more additional modules (preferred)
• Working depth in at least two of:
  Absence, Benefits, Recruiting, Learning, Compensation (preferred)
• Experience with a Workday payroll interface to a third-party payroll or ERP system (preferred)
• Managed-services or vendor management experience against a defined scope of work (preferred)
• Construction, materials, manufacturing, transportation, or another field-heavy, multi-entity workforce experience (preferred)
• Union environment experience (preferred)
• Post-go-live stabilization experience specifically (preferred)
• Experience taking over a live tenant from a departing owner and establishing documented, independent operation (preferred)

Demonstrates extensive expertise in Workday configuration and administration, including security management, release management, and integration oversight. Proven ability to lead HRIS teams, manage change, and ensure data integrity while delivering strategic reporting and governance.

• Workday Configuration
• Workday Security Administration
• Release Management
• Integration Oversight
• People Management

• Workday HCM
• EIB
• Core Connectors
• Custom Reports
• Calculated Fields
• Business Processes
• Security Model Design
• Impact Assessment
• Regression Testing
• Data Quality Remediation

• Clear Communication
• Team Leadership
• Coaching
• Cross-Training
• Performance Management

• Workday Pro Certification in HCM

• Construction
• Manufacturing
• Transportation
• Union Environment
• Multi-Entity Workforce

• Workday
• CMiC
• Integration Infrastructure