Technical Workday Program Manager / Business Analyst
Must Haves:
- 8+ years of experience as a Workday Program Manager or Workday Business Analyst
- Strong experience with Workday HCM and HR business processes, including onboarding, benefits, and employee lifecycle management
- Strong background in process mapping, documentation, and requirements gathering (BRDs, SOPs, workflows)
- Strong experience facilitating stakeholder communication and ask the right questions to uncover process gaps, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities
- Experience managing multiple concurrent workstreams in a fast-paced environment
- Experience coordinating across HR, IT, third-party vendors, and business stakeholders
Plusses:
- Experience with Workday Benefits, Payroll, Recruiting, or Business Process Framework
- Exposure to Workday Extend initiatives
- Experience supporting Workday integrations with third-party vendors
- Prior experience supporting onboarding transformation or automation initiatives
Day to day:
We are seeking a Workday Program Manager / Workday Business Analyst to support HR transformation initiatives focused on employee onboarding, benefits administration, and payroll process improvement. This individual will partner with HR, IT, vendors, and leadership to facilitate discovery sessions, document business requirements, map current and future-state processes, and drive stakeholder alignment across multiple workstreams.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead discovery sessions to understand current processes, challenges, and improvement opportunities.
- Document business requirements, process flows, SOPs, and current/future-state workflows.
- Drive alignment across onboarding, benefits, payroll, and broader HR process initiatives.
- Coordinate stakeholders, vendors, and project teams to ensure requirements and deliverables are clearly defined.
- Identify process gaps, dependencies, risks, and opportunities for standardization and automation.
- Translate business needs into actionable functional requirements for Workday-related initiatives.
- Manage project documentation, communications, action items, and multiple concurrent workstreams.
This role is ideal for a consultative professional who understands Workday business processes, excels at requirements gathering and documentation, and can keep complex initiatives moving without immediately jumping to technical solutions.