HRIS Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee the HRIS operating model and Workday roadmap for designated areas.

• Assist in the deployment of new Workday products, modules, significant enhancements, releases, and cross-functional HR technology initiatives.

• Manage vendors, address risks, oversee timelines, and evaluate adoption outcomes.

• Guide requirement gathering and complete solution design for business processes, workflows, approvals, notifications, reporting, integrations, and controls.

• Be responsible for Workday architecture and high-risk configurations within assigned HRIS areas.

• Establish and enforce change-control and release protocols, which include testing, migration, production validation, rollback planning, and implementation documentation.

• Manage Workday security and data privacy governance, conduct access reviews, and maintain audit documentation.

• Direct integration, data governance, reporting, and analytics standards; supervise data audits and complex issue resolution.

• Define the HRIS support and knowledge management model, providing Tier 2 and Tier 3 escalation support.

• Conduct root-cause analysis and ensure that procedures, job aids, training, and release communications reinforce user adoption.

• Collaborate with HR, Payroll, Finance, IT, Internal Audit, Legal/Compliance, and local HR to transform approved requirements into system solutions.

• Lead, mentor, and develop the HRIS Analyst team.

• Set standards for basic Workday data entry and guarantee cross-training, backup coverage, and business continuity.

• Establish governance and priorities for reporting and analytics in areas such as workforce, compliance, sustainability, and operational reporting.

• Perform additional duties as assigned.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, HRIS, Information Systems, Business, or a related discipline, or a suitable combination of education and experience.

• A minimum of six years of progressive HRIS/HCM experience.

• At least three years of practical experience in Workday configuration and administration.

• Proven experience leading at least one Workday module, major enhancement, or business process improvement from requirements to deployment and stabilization.

• Advanced knowledge of Core HCM, Workday business process configuration, security, reporting and calculated fields, data loads, and integrations.

• Experience managing cross-functional projects and vendor relationships.

• Intermediate to advanced capability in Workday functional configuration and troubleshooting.

• Strong understanding of HR, payroll, total rewards, talent acquisition, recruiting, and employee lifecycle processes.

• Familiarity with Workday security, role-based access, segregation of duties, data privacy, audit controls, and change management.

• Working knowledge of Workday integrations, including EIBs, delivered connectors, web services/APIs, and integration monitoring.

• Proficient in reporting and data analysis, including the creation of custom reports, calculated fields, dashboards, data validation, and Microsoft Excel.

• Strong skills in project coordination, requirements gathering, testing, documentation, and change-adoption processes.

• Good judgment, risk awareness, and the ability to make decisions with incomplete information while escalating as necessary.

• Strong leadership, coaching, stakeholder management, vendor management, and effective communication skills.

• Excellent problem-solving abilities, attention to detail, organizational skills, and capability to manage competing priorities.

• Proven discretion in handling sensitive information.

• Willingness to travel up to 5%.

🏝️ Benefits

• Travel up to 5%.

• Equal employment opportunity consideration regardless of protected status.