Business Analyst, Workday Technology

About Bridgewater

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors.

Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles.

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment for excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.

Our Culture

Bridgewater’s unique success is the direct result of our unique way of being. We want an idea meritocracy in which meaningful work and meaningful relationships are pursued through radical truth and radical transparency. We require people to be extremely open, air disagreements, test each other’s logic, and view discovering mistakes and weaknesses as a good thing that leads to improvement and innovation. It is by continually striving together for the highest levels of truth and excellence that we create meaningful work and meaningful relationships. Within this culture, Diversity and Inclusion is a top priority because it is essential to finding the best talent in the world, enabling our idea meritocracy, and creating an environment where all types of people can thrive. We have a full-time team as well as affinity networks that work on these issues - If you would like to learn more, please let your Bridgewater recruiter know.

About the Technology Department:

The Technology team at Bridgewater engineers systems to understand the world. These systems synthesize and industrialize our global understanding into a hive mind of macroeconomic knowledge which enables us to educate and collaborate with the world’s most influential central banks and policy makers and carefully and strategically manage the world’s most important capital. Our technologists are engineering highly available, high performing and highly secure cloud platforms and infrastructure which support and scale our investing operations.

Position Summary:

We are searching for a driven and analytical problem solver for the position of Workday Business Analyst. This individual will primarily focus on supporting the Workday HCM and Payroll Modules. This position is part of Bridgewater’s fast-paced Workday technical team that is responsible for implementing new Workday modules, delivering enhancements, bi-annual upgrades, and day-to-day support for the entire Bridgewater population. The incoming Business Analyst will be responsible for partnering with business users to create solutions that will achieve department goals by analyzing financial/HCM technology and process needs. This individual will be responsible for requirements gathering, delivering functional business analysis for technology and process transformation projects, and implementation of solutions within Workday. The ideal candidate would possess the ability to dynamically shift between technical and business project needs and should be equally knowledgeable within each of these realms.  A member of this team must be hard working, confident, with excellent ability to multitask, deal with ambiguity, prioritize, and be goal-oriented.

The preferred candidate would possess Workday HCM and Payroll experience implementing the modules while adhering to the Workday methodology, though Payroll experience is not a requirement. Workday security expertise is also a plus.

We think you'll click with us if you:

• Can drive complex, high-value projects involving multiple partners to success, on time
• Anticipate problems and complications, and formulate solutions to unblock the progress of the project
• Act as an owner, assume responsibility and drive issues to resolution
• Constantly raise the bar, never satisfied that anything is good enough
• Can balance pragmatism, excellence and agility with good logic

You'll drive the following responsibilities:

• Assessment of business needs and utilization of Workday to deliver optimal solutions for Bridgewater
• Implementation of technology solutions in the Workday HCM (and potentially the Payroll) Module
• Providing strong day-to-day support to all Bridgewater customers
• Partner with business users to create solutions that will achieve department goals by analyzing financial/HCM technology and process needs
• Gather requirements, delivering functional business analysis for technology and process transformation projects, and implementation of solutions within Workday

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