Workday HCM Business Analyst
Location: Dover, DE Hybrid 3-days per week onsite
Duration: Contract
Interview process: Recruiter screening request will be sent via SMS and email; Team interview; Client Inperson interview
Job Summary
Key Skills: 3+ years of Workday functional/BA work on implementation or enhancement projects with a focus on HCM
Strong experience with the following Workday modules: Core HCM, Recruitment and Compensation
Top notch communication skills (verbal and written) required
Job Description
We are looking for a Business Analyst - PHCM Workday Core HCM, Compensation and Recruiting to support the State of Delaware’s One Delaware People and Human Capital Management (PHCM) project with a focus on Workday Core HCM, Compensation, and Recruiting. This position will be full-time contingent and hybrid.
What You’ll Do
- Support functional analysis and coordination across assigned Workday areas and track issues and decisions through resolution
- Review and validate PHCM business requirements against Workday capabilities and system integrator deliverables and identify gaps, partial fits, decisions and potential changes requiring functional lead review
- Document and review current-state and future-state end-to-end processes including handoffs, approvals, exceptions and cross-functional dependencies
- Work directly with functional leads and SMEs on Core HCM, Compensation and Recruiting business processes, configuration decisions and functional impacts
- Prepare for and participate in system integrator workshops and capture requirements, questions, decisions, action items and follow-up assignments
- Help develop and validate test scenarios and support system and user acceptance testing while documenting results, tracking defects and coordinating retesting with business teams
- Assist functional leads with data definitions, cleanup needs, conversion validation and business review of employee, position, compensation and recruiting data
- Identify dependencies with payroll, benefits, security, reporting, integrations, finance and organizational change management and raise impacts for resolution
- Maintain accurate requirements, issue, risk and decision logs and follow up with assigned owners while escalating blockers promptly
- Maintain project trackers and provide concise weekly updates on progress, open items, risks and next steps to the PHCM Project Manager
- Work independently against project priorities and raise blockers early
- Communicate clearly with functional SMEs, technical teams and project leadership
- Maintain organized and accurate records of requirements, decisions, test evidence and follow-up items
- Handle confidential employee and applicant information in accordance with State security requirements
- Work collaboratively across functional areas and adapt as design and testing priorities evolve
What You'll Need
Required:
- 5+ years professional experience
- Hands-on Workday Core HCM experience including worker and organizational data, staffing events, supervisory organizations and related business processes
- Hands-on Workday Compensation experience including compensation plans, eligibility, compensation changes and related approvals and processes
- Hands-on Workday Recruiting experience including job requisitions, candidate workflows, hiring processes and related business process configuration or support
- Three or more years of business analysis experience on Workday HCM systems implementation or enhancement projects
- Experience gathering, documenting and validating requirements and performing fit-gap analysis while documenting business processes and functional impacts
- Experience supporting design workshops, test scenarios, user acceptance testing and defect tracking tools
- Strong Excel and documentation skills with the ability to maintain clear trackers, decisions and status reports
- Ability to work effectively with functional business teams, technical resources, project management teams and implementation vendors
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Human Resources, Information Systems or a related field or equivalent work experience
- Ability to pass a State of Delaware and Federal FBI background check and comply with State requirements for handling confidential employee information
Preferred:
- Public-sector Workday implementation experience and familiarity with statewide HR operations
- Participation in a completed Workday HCM implementation including design, testing, deployment or post-go-live support
- Experience with classification and compensation, position management, recruitment and hiring processes in government or another large organization
- Knowledge of Workday business process frameworks, security roles, reporting and integrations related to Core HCM, Compensation and Recruiting
- Public-sector project experience including formal governance, independent oversight and stakeholder coordination
- Experience with data conversion, data quality review and cross-functional process dependencies
Physical Demands
- Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA and other federal, state and local standards
- Sedentary work that involves sitting or remaining stationary most of the time with occasional need to move around the office to attend meetings, etc.
- Ability to conduct repetitive tasks on a computer, utilizing a mouse, keyboard, and monitor
