HR Systems Analyst III

POSITION SUMMARY: Join our team as an experienced Workday Time, Absence and Payroll analyst and play a critical role in optimizing and supporting complex configuration (including specialized union contracts & absence), reporting and continuous improvement. The HR Systems Analyst III serves as a functional configuration expert responsible for designing, building, testing, and optimizing Workday solutions across assigned modules. Working closely with HR Centers of Excellence (COEs), Payroll, and HR Operations, the incumbent translates business needs into scalable configuration—while partnering with Business Analysts on requirements/process design and with Workday Engineers on integrations, security architecture, and advanced technical components. The HR Systems Analyst III leads configuration changes, supports releases, triages escalations, maintains data integrity, and contributes to Workday governance and continuous improvement. PRINCIPLE RESPONSIBILITIES: Proactively identifies challenges, identifies root cause and designs scalable solutions and system configuration improvements Design and configure complex Workday business processes, condition rules, calculated fields, validations, alerts, notifications, eligibility rules, and EIB templates. Primary owner of complex workstreams and accountable for end-to-end module impacts Responsible for configuration integrity and sustainability Mentors HR Systems Analyst(s) II and serves as an escalation point for complex configuration Provide guidance to Tier 1/Tier 2 HR support teams. Lead semi-annual release impact reviews, remediation, and regression testing for respective module(s). Coordinate UAT with COEs and HR Operations. Partner with Workday Engineers on technical feasibility and migration processes. Collaborate with Business Analysts to translate requirements into functional design. Partners with product owners, HR leaders, an COEs to consult on HR System needs Maintain configuration documentation, decision logs, and