Senior Workday HRIS Analyst

ImmunityBio, Inc. is a late-stage immunotherapy company developing next-generation therapies that drive immunogenic mechanisms for defeating cancer and infectious disease. The company’s immunotherapy platform is designed to activate both the innate (natural killer cell and macrophage) and adaptive (T cell) immune systems to create long-term “immunological memory.”

Position Summary

The Senior Workday Analyst serves as a subject matter expert and a proficient knowledge resource for HR business processes and projects involving the development, implementation and testing of systems modifications. Responsible for researching, analyzing, troubleshooting, and resolving issues that impact data quality and integrity. Ensures system security is administered appropriately.

Essential Functions

• Provide day to day systems support for Workday and other HR systems including troubleshooting data and system issues, recommending solutions, and implementing enhancements and fixes within the context of approved methods
• Act as the Workday Reporting expert with deep knowledge of current functionality, design concepts, touch points with HCM, Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, Absence, Talent and Time Tracking, dashboards, embedded analytics, and calculated fields. This includes analyzing moderately complex, system generated or manual reports and queries; producing and/or overseeing scheduled and ad hoc reporting.
• Provides a full range of HRIS functions, including business process configuration, security administration, and system update.
• Performs periodic audits of critical data elements, systems configuration, and system processes.
• Reviews existing procedures and processes and suggests “technology” solutions based on improving data accuracy, improving and eliminating manual processes. Assists in the review, design, development, and testing of data and processes during system conversions, upgrades and addition of software packages.
• Develop, deliver, document and test solutions for complex business needs.
• Analyze current functionality, troubleshoot and test for production defects and propose enhancements.
• Maintains and updates HRIS systems (i.e. database files and tables) and system documentation to support policy and process changes as well as testing. Provide technical guidance and works .independently but closely with the functional HR areas
• Work closely with HR Business Partners to understand business processes, goals and gaps; and provide suggestions, reports, and/or solutions while considering impacts across all HR functioning areas.
• Responsible for understanding business requirements, supports configuring the Workday HCM product and creating documentation as needed.
• Participate in the change management and go live support processes.
• Assists in performing unit testing and system testing to ensure requirements are met. Work closely with project team during user acceptance testing (UAT), including tracking issues through to resolution and securing end user acceptance signoff.
• Safeguard system access and security, and support system audits.
• Stay informed of new functionality available in Workday and drive the deployment of new feature releases.
• Assist with the creation of detailed technical requirements from high-level business requirements.
• Perform impact and risk analysis for moderately-sized changes.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent field
• 5+ years’ relevant experience in a corporate environment required
• 3+ years’ experience developing Workday custom reports and complex calculated fields
• Experience configuring HRIS software applications and custom reports
• Familiarity with Workday administrative functions including tenant configuration, data loads, payroll configurations and maintenance
• Experience with at least one full implementation of Workday, with demonstrated Workday technical and integrations experience

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Proven record of accomplishment of effectively interacting with internal and external stakeholders
• Demonstrated experience working in a fast-paced environment with stakeholders and users
• Enthusiastic about solving complex, system-to-system integration problems
• Working knowledge of Workday to include experience with configuration and business processes.
• Experience configuring, testing and deploying new Workday functionality
• 5+ years of progressive experience in supporting HRIS development projects, and, business process and project risk assessment.
• Experience with Workday Recruiting, Performance Management, Talent, Security, Integrations, EIB loads, and/or Advanced Compensation a plus
• Requires technical and analytical skills and knowledge of business processes and methodologies

Working Environment / Physical Environment

• Remote

ImmunityBio is a mandatory vaccination employer for COVID-19 and its variants. The Company requires that its employees be fully vaccinated as of their start date. If you require a medical or religious accommodation we will engage in the interactive process with you. Proof of vaccination will be required prior to start. If we make you an offer and you are not yet vaccinated, we will accommodate a delay in start date. ImmunityBio may also mandate that its employees receive vaccine boosters, and all accommodation laws will be followed.