Senior HRIS Analyst-Absence Management

The Senior HRIS Analyst will support the design, configuration, and administration of Inspire Brand's HR absence management and people related systems and processes.  This individual will serve as a subject matter expert in Workday Absence Management, including business process management, report writing, configuration, data management, data extraction, and integration liaison between vendors and IT – Enterprise Applications. The role collaborates closely with our Benefits and HR Operations teams, as well as other HR/Payroll Centers of Expertise and our multi-brand HR Business Partners to analyze and document current processes and procedures with a consultative approach to improve the efficiency of the business operations within Workday or other integrated platforms. This individual will play both a technical and functional role depending on who they are collaborating with.  

For this role, we seek a results-oriented, highly motivated, and passionate professional with a proven history of delivering high quality Workday solutions. 

This position will sit in the Atlanta Support Center with expected working hours to fall in line with Eastern Standard and Daylight Savings time. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Configure and implement Workday business process updates and enhancements, business process security policies and Absence Management domain security policies, including leading testing and data validation, and ensure that overall system performance is aligned with business objectives. 

• Work closely with HR Centers of Expertise, HR Business Partners and technical teams to gather and define requirements, provide recommendations through a consultative approach, document changes for change control purposes, design, demo, and implement solutions, and ensure user ease of adoption. 

• Support all Absence Management activities within Workday, including change and enhancement requests related to Absence Management processes, plans, calculations, rules and tables, eligibility criteria, time off types, and payroll interdependencies. Knowledge and exposure to additional payroll processes would also be beneficial.  This role leads the end-to-end process of configuration and design sessions, business processes, eligibility rules, reporting, testing, and deployment to production. 

• Create, review and participate in functional and regression testing for all system fixes, upgrades, patches, and other maintenance—including bi-annual Workday releases and new system features.