Hybrid Workday Product Lead – HCM, HR Systems

at Gartner

• Job title: Workday Product Lead – HCM, HR Systems
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $86,000 - $118,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Irving, United States

About the role

• HR Systems Product Lead managing Workday HCM technologies to drive growth and improve HR processes at Gartner. Collaborating with stakeholders to enhance HR Systems functionalities and resolving issues.

Responsibilities

• Evolve the Compensation & Benefits, and Time & Absence technology portfolio and roadmap in partnership with HRIS leadership, our HR business owners, and other stakeholders across the business.
• Maintain relationships with key business partners to ensure visibility and partnerships for issue resolution and enhancements.
• Drive and maintain the Workday Compensation, Benefits, and Absence capabilities within our HR Systems team.
• 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.
• Support operational excellence in our existing systems of record, continuously evolving processes, ensuring the priority resolution of issues and application of project management principles for longer term initiatives.
• Manage bug/issue resolution processes: root cause analysis, impact analysis and driving solution design; in addition to implementing, testing and deploying solutions.
• Support Reporting & Analytics team for the definition and testing of report & dashboard needs of the organization including requirements gathering, designing and testing.
• Configure, test and process mass data loads via the Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB).
• Support Compliance enablement via HRIS systems and processes, including liaising with key contacts to understand changes in regulatory environment.
• Execute quality assurance efforts to ensure the accuracy of data and information.
• Participate in requirements gathering sessions with functional subject matter experts, IT and users.
• Support broader HR Systems HCM team in handling end users inbound request and escalations including the development of knowledge management collateral to support training and education efforts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field preferred.
• Minimum 2 years of experience configuring and managing Workday HCM and other HR systems, including experience with business processes, data structure, domain and BP security, EIBs, reporting & calculated fields, data auditing.
• Annual benefits and compensation cycle management is a plus (i.e., Open Enrollment and Annual Merit Compensation Review).
• Knowledge of HR business processes.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
• Experience developing reports and calculated fields in Workday.
• Strong service orientation with a high sense of ownership and accountability.
• Proven ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong work ethic and motivated to achieve goals and exceed expectations.
• Exceptional time management skills and an ability to handle multiple assignments and meet deadlines.
• A ‘systems’ thinker with a process orientation and significant attention to detail.
• Superior interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
• High level of executive presence.
• Change management experience preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Limitless growth and learning opportunities.
• A collaborative and positive culture - join a diverse team of professionals that are as smart and driven as you.
• Enjoy the flexibility of working from home and the energy of collaborating with peers in our dynamic offices.
• 20+ PTO days plus holidays and floating holidays in your first year.
• Extensive medical, dental insurance and vision plan.
• 401K with corporate match, immediate vesting.
• Health-and-wellness-related allowance programs.
• Parental leave.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Gartner Gives Charity Match.