Sr. HRIS Analyst

We are reinventing global trade. 

The Opportunity:

Flexport helps more than 10,000 clients and suppliers lead all aspects of their supply chain operations. Started in 2013, we've raised over $300M from investors that include the Founders Fund, Google Ventures, First RoundCapital, Bloomberg Beta, Y Combinator, & Wells Fargo.

With offices on three continents, our team is as global as our client base and we’re excited to continue building a product and service they love. Wherever you are, whichever role you play, you’re guaranteed to share your day with committed, encouraging, and resourceful team members.

Flexport is looking for a Sr. HRIS Analyst who will propel us into our next phase of strategic expansion. Reporting to the Sr. HRIS Manager, we are looking for a thought partner to provide outstanding support in the implementation of new modules, releases and rollouts. If you consider yourself a Workday Ninja and exude passion, creativity, and customer obsession - you’ll thrive here. You will have an unprecedented opportunity to design our systems to allow Flexport to rapidly and efficiently scale.

You will:

• Provide subject matter expertise around optimizing and streamlining the HRIS system (Workday)

• Support complex Workday projects including configuration and implementation in one or more of the following areas: Security, Business Process Management, and/or Analytics and Dashboards

• Review business requirements, author technical design documents, and produce high quality solutions aimed at optimizing business processes spanning multiple technologies across the enterprise

• Advise business teams in assessing technology needs of third party solutions

• Assess compatibility with the HR Systems and recommend integration strategy and plan

• Involved in ensuring unit testing, and user-acceptance testing is complete and all potential scenarios are explored and vetted to be little to no risk in compliance in documentation

• Utilize a comprehensive understanding of multiple data structures and sources to lead complex, and sometimes unique, data manipulation using advanced data extraction and analytical tools and techniques

• Analyze issues, unexpected results or process flows; identify failures, and provide break-fixes related to existing and future Workday interfaces

• Create and automate workflows across modules and systems

• Provide ongoing recommendations to keep Workday business processes simple and efficient

• Partner with cross functional teams to identify, assess, and solve complex business problems in Workday with external applications across a wide array of HCM, IT, Payroll and other functional areas, where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors

• Collaborate on semi-annual Workday product update releases processes, including regression testing and contingency planning for larger project efforts

You should have: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Information Systems or equivalent

• Experience implementing/enhancing/maintaining a Workday HRIS on a global scale is a must

• Minimum 3 years of configuration experience with the Workday Product Suite, with expertise in at least three of the following product areas: Core HCM (required), Benefits, Advanced Compensation, Performance Management, Time Tracking and Absence Management, Payroll

• Minimum 3 years of experience in the following foundational areas: Custom Reporting and Calculated Fields, Business Process Configuration, Security

• Familiar with JIRA Sprint Planning methodology and self sufficient in tracking tasks and projects

• A solid understanding of the data housed in Workday in different domains and across different data structures, and expert ability to create and maintain complex calculated fields

• Superior analytical and technical skills for translating and analyzing business needs into requirements, driving projects, and delivering effective, value-adding solutions

• ​Exceptional technical aptitude and strong desire for learning new technologies and solution architectures

• Experience designing workflows with with the full employment lifecycle (recruiting, onboarding, career development, off-boarding)

• Demonstrated hands-on experience with basic Workday integration tools, including EIBs and reports as a service

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