Workday Principal Business Systems Analyst

On behalf of our client, Dice Talent Solutions is seeking a Workday Principal Business Systems Analyst to provide production support and execute new integrations as business needs arise.
This full-time (direct hire) position is based out of New York City, NY and works a HYBRID schedule, with Thursdays and Fridays as telework days. Candidates must be able to work on our client’s W2 (annual salary + benefits package). H1b visa transfer is available. No 3rd party Corp to Corp inquiries will be considered.
The successful candidate will have experience across all Workday modules, strong skills in troubleshooting and determining root cause analysis, and experience building new integrations. The environment includes Workday Studio Integrations, EIBs, Core Connectors, Payroll connectors, and benefit integrations. A strong understanding of integration architecture and the ability to research vendor API documentation in order to build an integration is required.
In this role you will liaise with IT, Finance, and Human Resources to design and cultivate Workday dashboards, scorecards and reports. You will foster organizational readiness to include optimizing Workday ERP efficiency, enabling continuous process improvement, driving cost reduction, and facilitating organizational growth.
RESPONSIBILITIES

• Engage with the business to provide technical guidance and oversight in the translation of complex business needs into requirements that can be used to design and develop Workday solutions.
• Captures functional business requirements by gathering, analyzing, and documenting requirements. Ensures system design fits the needs of the user.
• Designs, develops, configures, tests, maintains, and supports Workday system solutions. Ensures the required outcomes are built, tested, and delivered.
• Manages integration projects/initiatives to ensure delivery of quality solutions on time and within budget.
• Design and cultivate Workday dashboards, scorecards, and reports to evaluate workforce efficiency.
• Assist in the development and execution of capacity plans, timelines, and test scenarios for recurring upgrade cycles and future implementation phases. Communicate changes and enhancements via recurring upgrade cycles and future implementation phases to impacted users.
• Coordinate and execute systematic testing and deliver end user training.
• Identify business process improvement and standardization, pursue opportunities for cost reduction.
• Analyze incidents/requests; ensure issues and/or defects are identified, documented, and timely resolved.
• Edify and maintain constructive stakeholder relationships (Executive, HR, IT, etc.), solicit feedback to ensure ongoing service satisfaction.
• Using a strong understanding of business processes, services, and technology, identify opportunities for improvement, simplification, standardization, and automation.
• Assist in developing and maintaining a roadmap for Workday technology solutions.
• Safeguard system access and security and support system audits.
• Use client’s internal tools and become familiar with their unique development environment to provide superior custom-applications.
• Drive stability and scalability within the operational support team.
• Immerse yourself in customary HR, IT, and Finance communications, meetings, and activities to engender collegial support.
• Other duties as assigned.

REQUIRED Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.
• 6+ years of experience working in Workday required
• Workday Integration Certification preferred.
• Workday Studio Certification preferred.

Technical Competencies

• Comprehension and proficiency of Software as a Service (SaaS) architecture, design, configuration, and testing in various areas of Workday:
• Organizational Structure
• Business Process Configuration
• Domain and Business Process Security Policies
• Simple, Advanced, Matrix, and Composite Reporting
• Calculated Fields
• Workday Studio
• Workday Web Service Framework
• Workday Core Connector and Document Transformation
• Workday Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB)
• Workday Business Intelligence Reporting Tool (BIRT)
• XML, XPATH, XSLT
• Excellent experience defining business requirements, establishing current vs. future process mapping, and creating functional and technical Workday specifications.
• Familiarity with Workday administrative functions including tenant configuration, data loads, payroll configurations, and maintenance.
• Capacity to administer multiple, competing demands and work cooperatively with others.

Behavioral Competencies

• Flexibility: Ability to support a global enterprise including non-standard hours. Acuity for organizational change practices and behavior. Comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty.
• Problem solving: Works on significant and unique issues, where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles.
• Service orientation: Self-motivated to meet and exceed business requirements. Ability to build relationships to effectively understand and meet customer needs.
• Communication: Interactive ability to adapt style and persuasion to gain the cooperation of others and achieve results. Able to effectively interact with internal and external stakeholders
• Time management: Approaches work in an organized and systematic manner. Plans work and time effectively to manage conflicting or shifting priorities and achieve goals aligned with business needs. Ability to work under pressure, and time constraints in a fast-paced environment with stakeholders and users
• Mentoring: Always shares and transfers knowledge locally and globally to team members as needed.
• Teamwork: Ability to work effectively individually or in a group setting; encourages collaboration and knowledge sharing to build relationships.
• Facilitation: Ability to facilitate workshops that stimulate ideas, business requirements, and relative priorities from end users and customers.
• Data Synthesis: Strong ability to analyze complex workflows and processes. Knowledge of standard industry workflow patterns and their applications. Strong familiarity with user interface patterns and practices. Able to mock up user experiences to obtain rapid, iterative feedback.
• Critical Thinking: Skilled at breaking down requirements into independent, valuable stories that focus on user goals rather than technical aspects of the system. Ability to define and prioritize requirements for iterative deve