Senior HRIS Analyst - Workday Payroll, Absence and Time Tracking Module

<p> </p> <p>Toast is driven by building the all-in-one restaurant platform that helps restaurants operate their business, increase sales, engage guests, and keep employees happy.</p> <p>Our People and Places team's ambition is that our People Experience is a key differentiator and reason for candidates to choose Toast and employees to stay at Toast, as much as our Products are today. Our People Products team goal is to amplify the People Team’s ambition by developing AI-powered conversational self-service products to deliver personalized employee experiences and insights in the flow of work through cloud based scalable, integrated, compliant products to unleash productivity and boost engagement of Toasters and possibly also ship to Toast customers.</p> <p>We are seeking a Senior HRIS Analyst (Workday - Payroll Configuration) to join our People Products team reporting into the HCM Solutions Architect on the People Products team. In this critical role, you will be responsible for system configuration across various functional areas within Workday that power our employee experience and operational excellence, with the first big initiatives focused on Toast’s global expansion and supporting US payroll. You'll work closely with People, Finance, and IT stakeholders to build scalable and successfully adopted solutions.</p> <p>Responsibilities:</p> <ul> <li>Serve as the subject matter expert across multiple areas of Workday, with specific focus on HCM, Configuration of Payroll (Expertise), Experience in Absence & Time tracking is a plus</li> <li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams (People Operations, Payroll, Total Rewards, IT etc.) to understand and improve business processes, providing Workday solutions that drive efficiency</li> <li>Lead end-to-end system configuration to support evolving business needs </li> <li>Continuously identify opportunities for process efficiency and system improvements, adopting a product-driven mindset to optimize Workday</li> <li>Understand data flows, business processes and system usages between Workday and other systems (both internal and external)</li> <li>Drive major Workday releases, including comprehensive plan for adoption of new features and regression testing for impacts to existing configurations</li> <li>Collaborates with business leaders to design and build reports to assist in data analysis, trends, and strategic planning</li> <li>Ensures compliance with data protection regulations and collaborates with various departments to manage security configurations and access controls. </li> <li>Evaluate requests for new products to determine alignment with existing Toast systems and overall systems strategy goals</li> </ul> <p>What you need to thrive? </p> <ul> <li&g