Senior Workday Security Analyst

Architect and deliver scalable, enterprise-grade security frameworks across Workday’sHR and Finance modules aligning businessobjectivesand security best practices.

Lead the configuration and administration of Workday security, including, but not limited to:

• Domain security policies
• Business process security policies
• Role-based security groups
• User-based security groups
• Intersection and constrained security groups
• Segregation of duties (SoD)
• Tenantlevelsecurity architecture
• Authentication and authorization concepts
• Security inheritance and propagation

Continuously assess and mature the Workday security architecture by identifying gaps, reducing complexity and implementing improvements that enhance scalability, performance, and least-privilege access.

Design and manage secure authentication frameworks, including OAUTH, SAML, Step-Up, Whitelisting, Single Sign-On (SSO), ensuring seamless and secure integrations across enterprise systems.

Serve as a subject matter expert in troubleshooting and resolving complex security issues, ensuring timely resolution while maintaining system integrity and business continuity.

• Provisioning and deprovisioning users
• Managing role assignments
• Security group maintenance
• Troubleshooting access issues
• Creating and modifying security configurations
• Supporting tenant refreshes and migrations
• Running security audits
• Managing emergency access procedures

Proactively monitor Workday releases and emerging capabilities, assessing impact and driving adoption of new features to enhance security posture and operational efficiency.

• Establish and optimize user access governance, partnering with Finance, HR, IT, and business stakeholders to design efficient provisioning workflows.
• Plan, coordinate, and execute biannual User Access Reviews (UAR) with a focus on audit readiness and risk reduction.

Drive compliance with regulatory and internal control frameworks (e.g., SOX, GDPR) by designing effective controls, supporting audits, managing evidence collection, and leading remediation efforts to address identified risks.

Develop and maintain comprehensive, audit-ready documentation of security models, standards, policies, and procedures, ensuring transparency and consistency across the organization.

Define and execute a forward-looking Workday security roadmap that leverages new platform capabilities, enforces least-privilege access, and aligns with evolving organizational and regulatory requirements.

• Bachelor's degree inIT or related discipline
• 3–5 years of hands- on experience with Workday Security(Pro certification a plus)
• Experience working directly with internal controls and auditors to support audit requests
• Proven experience designing and implementing security architectures
• Experience with
  
  SoD,SOX compliance, User Access Reviews (UAR), and GDPR initiatives
• Strong Knowledge of authentication methods, includingOAUTH,SAML,SSO and tenant level security configurations
• Supporting large global organizations with complex securityframeworkand scaling for growth

• Excellent interpersonal,collaboration and communication skills with the ability to interact with Finance,HR,IT, and Cybersecurity teamsacrossall levels of the organization
• Demonstrated ability to effectively organize and prioritize work to meet established deadlines
• Excellent problem solving, critical…