Human Resources Analyst

Hybrid 4x - Birmingham, AL

SUMMARY

The Senior Analyst, HR- HCMS is responsible for configuring and maintaining HCM systems, ensuring innovation, automation, and compliance with federal, state, and local regulations and the company's internal policies, procedures, and guidelines. With Workday being the primary system to support, this role will focus on meeting the needs of business, investigating issues within the system, documenting changes, finding solutions, and growing the system’s ability to serve the department and business needs. Supports business partners with cyclical needs of the department and enterprise-wide system projects to grow and develop technology around business needs and improvements.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Acts as the subject matter expert for the following functional areas in Workday: Core HCM, Time & Attendance, and Scheduling.
• Configures and maintains HCM systems, ensuring proper documentation of processes and procedures and compliance with internal audit procedures and federal and state laws.
• Assists the Lead analyst with building roadmaps and project plans for new automations and initiatives for their business partners.
• Works closely with business leaders to determine needs, trends, problems, solutions, and automations.
• Communicates with Learning team on training, building, maintaining auditing practices, and investigating problems to find roots.
• Helps to lead any large changes within the system, ensuring there are no negative downstream impacts, and all changes are properly tested and documented to ensure a smooth transition.
• Stays abreast of System releases as it relates to their functional area, ensuring implementation and testing of any new initiatives or functions that would benefit the business.
• Investigate any issues or roadblocks within the HCM systems, finding the root cause and testing and implementing solutions.
• Perform HCM system release testing for new functionality.
• Partners with the Data Analytics team and IT team to ensure their functional area gets the support they need to utilize the HCM system to its full capacity.
• Protects the company’s assets and financial information by ensuring the accuracy and effectiveness of internal control procedures and informing management and/or appropriate officials of potential fraud risk.
• Measurable Outcomes: Staying abreast of HCM System release, problem-solving for their functional areas, and automation possibilities, continuously learning new applications and functions in HCM System.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or Information Technology preferred or equivalent experience.
• 4-6 years of related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience is preferred.
• Experience with Workday is required.
• PHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP, or SHRM-SCP preferred.
• Strong Excel and analytical skills.