Senior Analyst, HRIS - Workday
Position Summary
As ICU Medical transitions to Workday, this role will support the implementation of Workday, with a focus on the Integrations and Reporting/Analytics workstreams, by assisting with requirements documentation, testing, data validation, reporting, and post-go-live support. Working under the direction of the Workday Program Manager, the HRIS Manager and senior project team members, this position will partner with the functional HR, Finance, IT & Training business leaders to ensure integrations requirements are collected and mirrored in our Workday platform. Reporting & Analytics will also be a key focus for this role. Ensuring current data reporting is available and no business gaps are created with the deployment.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Workday Report Development
- Design, build, and maintain advanced Workday reports (Advanced, Matrix, Composite) and complex calculated fields across HCM, Recruiting, Compensation, Benefits, Absence, Talent, and Payroll.
- Build reporting solutions that account for Workday security model impacts (domain, role-based, and user-based security), ensuring accurate, appropriately scoped data for each audience.
- Build and manage dashboards and discovery boards to deliver self-service analytics to HR leadership and COE partners.
- Serve as an escalation point for report defects, performance issues, and complex data interpretation questions, and evaluate new reporting features with each biannual Workday release.
Integrations
- Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain Workday integrations using EIB, XSLT, Document Transformation, Core Connectors, Cloud Connect, Studio, and Workday Web Services (SOAP/REST APIs).
- Develop and support inbound and outbound integrations across Workday HCM, Payroll, Benefits, Finance, and various third-party vendors.
- Partner with Workday analysts and business stakeholders to gather integration requirements and translate them into scalable technical designs.
- Own the full integration lifecycle, including requirements gathering, functional and technical design, development, UAT, deployment, and post-production support.
- Design and maintain custom reports that serve as data sources for outbound integrations, including web service-enabled reports (RaaS) consumed by downstream systems and vendors.
- Develop integration audit, reconciliation, and error reporting to monitor data flows between Workday and connected systems.
- Partner with the HRIS team on reporting requirements for integrations built on EIBs, Core Connectors, Studio, and Orchestrate, and validate report-based integration outputs during testing cycles and biannual releases.
- Ensure all integrations comply with data privacy, security, and audit requirements, aligning with organizational and regulatory standards.
Team & Platform Partnership
- Support Workday bi-annual releases by assessing potential impacts, conducting regression testing, and implementing required updates.
- Collaborate closely with the HRIS team on configuration changes, integrations, and platform enhancements that affect reporting.
- Mentor report writers and analysts, and contribute to reporting standards, naming conventions, and best practices.
- Advise on data quality, governance, and audit readiness, and identify opportunities to extend analytics beyond native Workday via Prism Analytics or Power BI.
Knowledge & Skills
- Strong technical expertise in Workday integrations (EIB, XSLT, DT, Core Connectors, Studio, SOAP/REST).
- Experience supporting integrations across Workday HCM and Financials.
- Ability to gather and translate business requirements into scalable, reliable integration solutions.
- Proficiency with web services and APIs.
- Advanced skills in Workday calculated fields and report creation.
- Strong ability to prioritize work, manage time independently, and follow through on tasks.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Basic project management skills, including scoping work, planning tasks, and communicating progress.
- This role involves interaction and collaboration with other departments and requires excellent judgment and interpersonal skills.
- Natural self-starter and creative problem solver with a continuous improvement mindset.
Minimum Qualifications, Education & Experience
- Must be at least 18 years of age.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Human Resources, Business, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent relevant work experience, is preferred.
- 6+ years of hands-on Workday reporting & integrations development and support experience in a production environment.
- Proficiency in EIB, XsLT, DT, Core Connectors, Cloud Connect, Studio, Workday Web Services (SOAP/REST APIs). Workday Certification preferred.
- Working knowledge of Workday Security concepts including domain and business process security policies, security groups, and ISU configuration.
- Proficiency in creating complex calculated fields and reports.
Work Environment
- This is largely a sedentary role.
- Typically requires travel less than 5% of the time.