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Senior Business Analyst, Workday

Elara Caring

Dallas, TX, United StatesOn-site

About the role

TL;DR

Own intake, prioritization, and delivery of Workday enhancements across HCM and Financial Management, partnering with stakeholders and technical, security, and governance teams. The role requires 7+ years in business analysis, enterprise applications, or product delivery, including at least 5 years with Workday and experience in both Workday HCM and Financial Management. You’ll handle requirements, testing and UAT, releases, production issue analysis, and essential business travel as needed.

As a Senior Business Analyst, Workday you’ll contribute to our success in the following ways:

  • Manage intake, analysis, and prioritization of Workday enhancements, requests, and process improvements across HCM and Finance.

  • Maintain and refine the enhancement backlog, evaluating business impact, scope, dependencies, risks, and resource requirements.

  • Partner with business stakeholders to gather requirements, document workflows, and translate business needs into actionable Workday solutions.

  • Collaborate with Workday technical, security, and governance teams to support system configuration, reporting, integrations, access controls, and compliance.

  • Develop and execute testing plans, coordinate user acceptance testing (UAT), resolve defects, and ensure changes are ready for deployment.

  • Support Workday releases and enhancement deployments through impact assessments, testing, implementation, and post-release validation.

  • Troubleshoot complex production issues, perform root cause analysis, and recommend long-term solutions to improve system performance and efficiency.

  • Monitor enhancement progress, backlog trends, testing quality, and recurring issues while communicating updates, risks, and recommendations to leadership.

What is Required?

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, Finance, Information Systems, or a related field; equivalent directly relevant experience may be considered.

  • 7 or more years of progressive business analysis, enterprise application, or product delivery experience, including at least 5 years working directly with Workday.

  • Demonstrated functional experience with both Workday HCM and Workday Financial Management is required.

  • Experience in a complex, multisite organization preferred.

  • Workday related training or credentials are preferred where available

  • SKILLS:

    • Advanced business analysis, facilitation, process mapping, user stories and acceptance criteria, backlog and demand management, test planning, defect triage, and cross functional communication.

    • Working knowledge of Workday business processes, role based security, audit controls, reporting, and integrations.

    • Comfortable using agile delivery and ticketing tools, spreadsheets, and documentation repositories.

  • Ability to travel for essential business activities as required and in accordance with company policies.

  • Meets applicable agency policies and procedures related to health screening and required testing

You will report to the Workday Product Owner, Platform Governance & Security

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