Sr. Business System Analyst, Compensation

What youll be doing

- Configure and maintain Workday Compensation module elements, including compensation packages, grades, grade profiles, matrices, eligibility rules, and compensation review/merit cycles
- Partner with Total Rewards to translate compensation strategy (base pay, bonus, equity, allowances) into scalable Workday configuration
- Lead annual and off-cycle compensation events (merit, bonus, and stock cycles) end-to-end, including planning, testing, mass data loads via Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), and validation
- Build and maintain compensation grades, guidelines, and eligibility rules to support pay equity and market-competitive pay decisions
- Partner with Payroll and Finance to ensure accurate downstream processing of compensation changes
- Provide global production analysis and support (break/fix analysis, reporting, business process administration, etc.) for Compensation
- Troubleshoot and resolve compensation-related issues, working cross-functionally with HRBPs and Payroll
- Manage Workday releases (bi-annual updates) by reviewing new compensation features, assessing impact, and coordinating regression testing
- Rigorously document compensation configuration and business processes to build operational excellence
- Ensure data integrity across compensation data, working closely with cross-functional teams to identify improvement opportunities
- Train end-users and peers on compensation processes and self-service functionality as needed
- Maintain the security groups and access policies tied to compensation data as a light, supporting part of the role

Our humble expectations

- You have 5+ years of work experience in Workday Compensation maintenance/configuration
- Proven experience leading full compensation review cycles (merit, bonus, stock) within Workday
- You are passionate about system optimization and employee experience
- You are a strong business thinker, able to use ‘first principles’ to solve challenging business problems at their root level




- You are data-driven, able to analyze data with strong attention to detail and accuracy, and passionate about telling the story behind the data hence turning the data into configuration
- You are a self-motivated, rapid learner, excited about further developing your analytical and problem-solving skills
- Basic working knowledge of Workday security concepts (security groups, domain policies) as they relate to compensation data access
- You are results-oriented, always evaluating whether our team’s activities are achieving the desired, measurable impact
- You are an owner, always looking for opportunities to learn and better your work product
- You are comfortable and thrive in a fast-paced, continually changing team-oriented environment and able to manage multiple deadlines simultaneously
- You have a BA/BS degree in quantitative or business fields, or equivalent work experience
- You have an analytical mindset and a “People First” mentality with demonstrated ability to work through complex, ambiguous problems using data and creating configuration solutions based on that data
- You have strong written/verbal communication
- Workday certified in Compensation preferred

Next steps

If you are excited about working in a high-growth environment, taking ownership, and being part of an extremely ambitious team, then click below to apply and get the conversation going!

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