Sr. Workday Analyst - Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking

What You Will Experience in This Position

• Configure and maintain Workday business processes, security, organizations, reports, dashboards, calculated fields, notifications, and integrations support.
• Develop and implement solutions across Workday modules including Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking.
• Potential for using Workday modules such as HCM, Compensation, Benefits, Talent, Recruiting, and Learning support functions as applicable.
• Analyze business requirements and translate them into scalable Workday configurations.
• Troubleshoot system issues and perform root cause analysis.
• Lead Workday improvement projects from requirements capturing through deployment.
• Serve as the primary functional lead for new Workday releases, feature adoption, and optimization initiatives.
• Coordinate testing activities, user acceptance testing (UAT), and production deployments with implementation partners and external consultants.
• Partner with HR Centers of Excellence, Shared Services, Payroll, Finance, and Compliance teams to provide strategic recommendations and education regarding system development, process improvements, Workday capabilities and established guidelines.
• Support change management and end-user adoption activities.
• Ensure data quality, governance, and audit readiness while supporting compliance and regulatory reporting requirements.
• Set up and sustain role-based security while performing periodic security audits and access reviews.
• Ensure Workday configurations align with internal controls and compliance standards.
• Support SOX, privacy, and audit requests as applicable.

You Have

• Bachelor degree in HR, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field preferred, or equivalent experience considered.
• 5+ years of Workday experience required.
• Hands-on Workday configuration, security, and reporting experience with a specific focus in Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking.
• Workday Pro certification(s) preferred.
• Experience supporting a global organization in Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking is required.
• Agile experience is required.

Benefits to Support the Lives of Our Employees

Pay Transparency

nVent’s pay scale is based on the expected range of base pay for this job and the employee’s work location. Employee pay within this range will be based on a combination of factors including knowledge, skills, abilities, experience, education, and performance. Where federal, state, or local minimum wage requirements exist, employee pay will comply.

Compensation Range: $89,300.00 - $165,800.00

Depending on the position offered, employee may be eligible for other forms of compensation, such as annual incentives.

Benefit Overview

At nVent, we value our people and their health and well-being. We provide a broad benefits package with meaningful programs for eligible full-time employees that includes:

• Medical, dental, and vision plans along with flexible spending accounts, short-term and long-term disability benefits, critical illness, accident insurance and life insurance.
• A 401(k) retirement plan and an employee stock purchase plan — both include a company match.
• Other supplemental benefits may include tuition reimbursement, caregiver, personal and parental leave, back-up care services, paid time off including volunteer time, a well-being program, and/or legal & identity theft protection.