Senior Systems Analyst – HR Technology Services

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

📋 Description

• Assist in the execution of intricate HR technology projects, such as M&A, Phase X implementations, Workday enhancements, integrations, and strategic initiatives.

• Collect, analyze, and document both business and functional requirements for Workday and associated HR technology projects.

• Evaluate HR processes, Workday functionalities, and employee data to uncover gaps, dependencies, and opportunities for improvement.

• Convert business requirements into functional specifications while coordinating solution design and implementation resources.

• Aid in data conversion through mapping, cleansing, validation, reconciliation, mass data loads, and ensuring readiness for downstream integration.

• Analyze extensive data sets using Excel and other analytical tools.

• Oversee work across M&A integrations, Phase X projects, Workday enhancements, Time & Absence, and additional initiatives.

• Maintain activity trackers, schedules, milestones, action items, and dependencies.

• Monitor commitments, identify obstacles, resolve issues, and sustain delivery momentum.

• Facilitate discussions about requirements, solution design, implementation sequencing, testing readiness, and deployment across various workstreams.

• Recognize risks, issues, downstream impacts, and suggest appropriate actions.

• Lead working sessions, status meetings, testing status meetings, and defect triage meetings.

• Coordinate SIT, UAT, regression, and end-to-end testing across Workday domains, integrations, downstream systems, and stakeholders.

• Support testing strategies, scenarios, timelines, execution plans, and prerequisite readiness.

• Track testing progress, defects, blockers, risks, decisions, and readiness for deployment.

• Assist in cutover preparation, production validation, and stabilization post-implementation.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Human Resources, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• Over 7 years of experience in supporting enterprise Human Capital Management (HCM) systems, HR technology implementations, business analysis, or related projects.

• Extensive experience with Workday HCM, covering core HR processes, reporting, employee data, business processes, and cross-functional system dependencies.

• Strong understanding of HR and Payroll business processes along with employee data flows between Workday and downstream applications.

• Proven experience in supporting complex Workday implementations, M&A integrations, enterprise enhancements, or large-scale HR technology initiatives.

• Experience working with large data sets, performing data analysis, reconciliation, and validation using Microsoft Excel.

• Proven ability to coordinate activities among various functional and technical teams, managing dependencies, tracking progress, and ensuring timely delivery of tasks.

• Experience in requirements gathering, functional analysis, testing, data conversion, and implementation activities.

• Exceptional organizational skills, meticulous attention to detail, and problem-solving capabilities, along with the ability to independently handle multiple priorities.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Demonstrated initiative, accountability, proactive identification of issues, follow-up, and effectiveness in a fast-paced global environment.

• Preferred: Experience in coordinating or leading Workday SIT, UAT, regression, or end-to-end testing.

• Preferred: Skills in testing management, defect tracking, test scenario development, and cross-system impact analysis.

• Preferred: Experience with M&A integrations, Phase X implementations, or divestitures.

• Preferred: Knowledge of Workday integrations including EIBs, PECI, WECI, PICOF, and downstream HR/Payroll systems.

• Preferred: Familiarity with ADP GlobalView or other enterprise payroll platforms.

• Preferred: Expertise in Workday Reporting, Time Tracking, Absence Management, Security, or other HCM functional domains.

• Preferred: Experience with Smartsheet or similar project and testing coordination tools.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement.

• Standard Monday–Friday work schedule.