Job Description - Senior Workday Product Analyst

Title: Workday Product Analyst

Location: Minneapolis, MN

Duration: 6 months plus

About this role:

This role will sit within the Candidate Scrum team under Talent Acquisition through all phases of the agile product management lifecycle. Working closely with the Product Owner and Talent Acquisition stakeholders to deliver innovation within the Product area.

In this role, you will:

• Evolve the Recruiting portfolio and roadmap in partnership with Product leadership, HRIS, our HR business owners, and other stakeholders across the business.
• Drive and maintain the Workday Recruiting capabilities within our HRIS team.
• Lead and facilitate workshops and discussions to effectively gather requirements and achieve a detailed understanding of client objectives and desired outcomes.
• Drive requirements, incorporating product expertise and industry knowledge to discover and validate what has real value to the business.
• Partner with client area to execute planning, conducting, and directing the analysis of overly complex business problems to be solved with automated systems (i.e., Workday).
• Manage multiple stakeholder groups including global business teams, risk management, compliance, legal, data privacy.
• Own and execute on system administration for Workday, including configuration, business processes, security & compliance, notifications, auditing, and data quality management.
• Drive and maintain capability-specific, vendor-led releases and system enhancements, including the configuration and development of new features, deploying enhancements, as well as creation and execution of test plans, user acceptance and regression testing.
• Assist in decomposing epics into effective user stories.
• Maintain task status in JIRA or similar Agile management tool.
• Work with user groups to resolve questions, assess user needs, and recommend changes.
• Ensure cross-functional dependencies are articulated, managed, and addressed to execute projects with quality and on-time.
• Contribute to delivering solutions that are long-term, large scale, and require consideration of global market dynamics, trends, regulatory impact, and risk management.

Required Qualifications:

• 5 years of Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.

Desired Qualifications:

• 2 years of experience configuring and managing HR systems, preferably Workday HCM.
• Experience implementing and supporting Workday functions including Core HR, Compensation, or Talent Management.
• Experience with Recruiting, Talent and Performance, or Onboarding configurations.
• Experience working as part of Agile teams.
• Experience leading and facilitating workshops and discussions to meet client objectives and desired outcomes.
• Experience with HR systems in a complex, regulated, global environment with multiple integrations.
• Ability to operate as part of cross functional work streams to execute projects with quality and on-time.
• Experience interpreting business and technical needs and translating them into user stories.
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong organizational, multi-tasking and prioritization skills.
• Knowledge of HR business processes.