Workday Security System Analyst

What You'll Do

Avalara is looking for an experienced Workday subject matter expert to oversee, improve, design, and scale Workday Security. 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 Sr. Manager, People Technology Architecture.

Must have 5+ years of experience with Workday.

1. Design, configure, and maintain Workday security roles, domains, and business process security policies.

2. Implement security controls according to organizational policies and regulatory requirements.

3. Manage role assignments, segregation of responsibilities, and user provisioning processes.

4. Provide daily security administration and troubleshooting within Workday through JSM and maintain documentation.

5. Monitor system security for unauthorized access, errors, and compliance violations.

6. Support security-related audits and compliance initiatives (e.g., SOX, GDPR).

7. Partner with HR, Finance, Payroll, and IT teams to gather requirements and recommend security solutions.

8. Translate business needs into Workday security configuration and ensure least-privilege access.

9. Conduct impact analysis for new features, releases, or configuration changes.

10. Develop and execute security test plans, including role validation and regression testing.

11. Validate new security features delivered in Workday releases and provide recommendations.

12. Create and maintain security design documents, process guides, and standard operating procedures.

13. Address compliance audit requirements and maintain system audit records

What Your Responsibilities Will Be

• Minimum of 5+ years of relevant professional experience in supporting/implementing Workday Security in a corporate HRIS/IT role.
• Supported Workday Security in a production environment
• Understanding of the impacts to modifying Security policies and understand end-to-end Security constructs
• Hands-on configuration experience of Workday Core HR, Security
• Create, deploy, and maintain Workday custom reports and dashboards
• Provide end user support and functional trainings

What You'll Need to be Successful

• Experience with Workday technologies - Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) Report Writer, Business Process Framework, Configurable Security, Calculated Fields
• Experience with Workday's Human Capital Management (HCM) suite and Security
• Other experience with Compensation, Payroll, Security, Recruiting and Time Tracking
• Workday Security PRO Certified
• Experience with SOX principles and concepts