# Senior HRIS Analyst

**Company:** [Earnin](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/earnin)
**Location:** Mountain View, CA
**Role:** People Ops
**Salary:** $184k – $226k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Workday, core hcm, workday security, business process framework, advanced reporting, calculated fields, workday integrations, eib, workday studio, workday api, advanced compensation, Payroll, talent management, Performance Management
**Posted:** 2026-07-29

> Senior HRIS Analyst owning and optimizing Workday Core HCM and Security. Design scalable people systems, integrations, AI-enabled workflows, reports, and governance while partnering with People, Finance, and IT teams. Requires 4+ years HRIS experience with deep Workday configuration expertise.

## Job Description

## Workday Configuration & Ownership
- Own configuration and ongoing optimization of Workday Core HCM and Security frameworks
- Design and maintain business processes, workflows, and system controls across the employee lifecycle
- Lead system enhancements, releases, and feature adoption

## Security & Data Governance
- Design and manage Workday security architecture (roles, domains, permissions)
- Ensure compliance with audit, privacy, and data governance standards
- Partner with IT and Security teams on access controls and risk mitigation

## System Strategy & Optimization
- Ensure Workday is not operated in isolation but as part of a broader enterprise ecosystem; design solutions that support end-to-end business processes across systems, including access governance, compliance, and cross-functional workflow orchestration
- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and automate People processes through Workday and integrated systems
- Drive scalable solutions that reduce manual effort and improve data accuracy
- Contribute to the Workday roadmap by defining and prioritizing enhancements based on business impact, scalability, and system health
- Establish and maintain system governance and best practices
- Partner with People Operations and external Workday support to manage escalations, prioritize issues, and drive systemic resolution of recurring problems
- Ensure data consistency and integrity across Workday and downstream financial systems, including reconciliation of headcount, compensation, and organizational structures used in financial reporting and planning.
- Develop and maintain system documentation (business processes, decision logic, architecture diagrams); leverage AI tools to accelerate documentation, identify logic gaps, and propose enhancements

## Reporting & Insights
- Build and maintain advanced Workday reports, dashboards, and calculated fields
- Partner with stakeholders to deliver actionable insights across People and Finance
- Ensure consistency and integrity of workforce data

## Cross-Functional Partnership
- Partner with People Ops, Total Rewards, Finance, and IT to translate business requirements into system solutions
- Act as a subject matter expert on Workday capabilities and limitations
- Act as a key partner to Finance in supporting workforce planning, budgeting, and actuals reporting by ensuring accurate and timely workforce data
- Support testing strategy (UAT) and ensure high-quality system deployments
- Leverage AI and structured methodologies to define test strategies, generate test cases, support design reviews, and proactively identify logic gaps or architectural improvements prior to deployment

## Integrations & Troubleshooting
- Partner with technical and business teams to support Workday integrations and data flows
- Troubleshoot system issues, root cause errors, and implement scalable fixes
- Partner closely with Workday architects and platform engineers to align on architecture, ensure scalable solutions, and support enterprise-wide workflow design

## Requirements
- 4+ years of HRIS experience with deep Workday expertise
- Strong configuration experience in Core HCM & Security
- Experience with Workday configuration including Business Process Framework, Security, and Advanced Reporting (Calculated Fields)
- Experience partnering cross-functionally with People, Finance, and IT teams
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience creating structured documentation and leveraging AI tools to enhance system design, testing, and analysis
- Advanced analytical and technical skills for translating and analyzing business needs into requirements, driving implementations, and delivering effective, value-adding solutions
- Exceptional technical aptitude and strong desire for learning new technologies and solution architectures
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, or similar tools) as part of your software development workflow

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with Workday’s systems below is a plus: Advanced Compensation, Payroll, Integrations (EIB, Studio, API exposure), Talent/Performance modules
- Experience supporting Workday implementations or major system transformations is a plus.
- Experience in global and matrixed organizations is a plus.
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Information Systems, or equivalent is a plus.
- Experience designing workflows across different areas in the employment lifecycle (recruiting, onboarding, career development, off-boarding) is a plus.

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