Staff Product Analyst
Leads strategy, configuration, testing, and optimization of Workday Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking programs, partnering with People, Payroll, Finance, and IT stakeholders. Requires 7+ years of Workday configuration experience and strong reporting, testing, and stakeholder-management skills.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Define the product vision and multi-year roadmap for Workday Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking.
- Partner with People, Payroll, Finance, IT, and other stakeholders to translate business needs into functional requirements and configuration designs.
- Lead configuration of business processes, calculations, eligibility rules, pay components, and related workflows.
- Manage the full lifecycle from discovery and requirements gathering through testing, deployment, maintenance, and adoption.
- Build Workday reports, dashboards, and hubs to monitor performance, identify trends, and recommend improvements.
- Manage third-party vendor relationships, including ADP, and ensure reliable data flows and service-level compliance.
- Lead UAT, regression testing, troubleshooting, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
- Create documentation, user guides, and training to drive adoption of Workday features.
- Ensure configurations comply with global privacy requirements and internal security standards.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience configuring Workday Payroll, Absence, and/or Time Tracking.
- Deep functional expertise in Workday Payroll, including general ledger, pay components, and taxes, as well as Absence and Time Tracking.
- Experience designing business processes, calculated fields, and eligibility rules.
- Experience leading tenant configuration, UAT, and regression testing.
- Advanced ability to build custom reports, dashboards, and hubs.
- Strong stakeholder communication, influence, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience working in an Agile environment, managing backlogs, and delivering iteratively.
- Must work on U.S. soil and qualify as a U.S. person under applicable federal requirements.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Workday integrations such as PECI, PICOF, or Studio.
- Experience with Workday Extend.
- Workday certification in Payroll, Absence, or Time Tracking.
Compensation and Benefits
- Annual base salary for the San Francisco Bay Area: $148,000–$203,500 USD.
- Annual base salary for California excluding the San Francisco Bay Area, Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington: $132,000–$181,500 USD.
- Equity, bonus, health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, PTO, and parental leave may be available under applicable plans and policies.
Skills
Workday Payroll, Workday Absence, Workday Time Tracking, Workday Reporting, Calculated Fields, Eligibility Rules, Uat, Regression Testing, Workday Integrations, Peci, Picof, Workday Studio, Workday Extend, Agile
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