Workday Benefits/Absence System Analyst

What You'll Do

Avalara is an AI-first company. We expect every engineer, manager, and leader to actively leverage AI to enhance productivity, quality, innovation, and customer value. AI is embedded in our workflows, decision-making, and products and success at Avalara requires embracing AI as an essential capability, not an optional tool.

Avalara is looking for an experienced Workday subject matter expert to oversee, improve, design, and scale Workday Benefits and Absence areas. We ask that you have a passion to enhance product quality and to deliver a seamless experience in Workday through mastery on functional configuration and team player skills.

You will be part of our People Technology team and work with other internal business partners, and company management in the development and maintenance of Workday.

People Technology is a diverse team made up of subject matter experts that own multiple enterprise platforms and brings automation and scale to our People & Culture, Finance and IT programs.

You will report to the Senior Manager, People Technology.

What Your Responsibilities Will Be

• Must have 7+ years of experience with Workday**

You will

• Be responsible for global Benefits and Absence projects from business analysis to hands-on functional configuration ownership.
• Analyze complex business problems through effective documentation skills.
• Plan, execute and coordinate manual and automated testing with team members and business stakeholders.
• Mentor, influence and guide the workday experts and business team members through empathetic change management.
• Design and deploy plans and tweaks while ensuring reliability and scale through simplicity and speed.

What You'll Need to be Successful

• 7+ years of relevant professional experience supporting/implementing Workday Benefits and Absence areas.
• Understanding of the dependencies and downstream impacts across Workday modules and data feeds to other internal and external applications.
• Hands-on configuration experience of Workday Core HR, Benefits, Absence, Security and Business Processes.
• Create, deploy, and maintain Workday custom reports and dashboards for technology team.
• Ability to bring simplicity and speed to our programs.

Certifications:

• Workday Pro Certifications.
• Expertise with Time Tracking.