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Salary: USD 184,000 - 226,000 / annual
EarnIn is seeking a Senior HRIS Analyst to own and evolve the Workday platform, with primary focus on Workday Payroll, Core HCM, and Security. This is a strategic role that designs, configures, and optimizes scalable people systems to enable business growth and operational efficiency.
You will act as a strategic partner to People, Finance, Total Rewards, Payroll, and IT teams, translating business needs into system solutions while ensuring payroll accuracy, data integrity, and streamlined processes across the employee lifecycle. The company is undergoing an Intelligent Work Systems transformation, evolving from manual operations to AI-enabled, cross-system workflows that scale across the enterprise.
Key responsibilities include:
**Payroll & Workday Configuration Ownership:**
- Administer Workday Payroll configuration end-to-end, including pay groups, earnings, deductions, and payroll-impacting business processes
- Serve as primary systems point of contact for Payroll Operations, ensuring accurate, on-time pay processing
- Own configuration and ongoing optimization of Workday Payroll and Core HCM, including security frameworks
- Support configuration and troubleshooting across other Workday functional areas (Time and Absence, Advanced Compensation)
- Design and maintain business processes, workflows, and system controls across the employee lifecycle
- Lead system enhancements, releases, and feature adoption
**System Strategy & Optimization:**
- Ensure Workday operates as part of a broader enterprise ecosystem; design solutions supporting end-to-end business processes across systems
- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and automate People processes through Workday and integrated systems
- Drive scalable solutions that reduce manual effort and improve data accuracy
- Contribute to the Workday roadmap by defining and prioritizing enhancements based on business impact and scalability
- Establish and maintain system governance and best practices
- Ensure data consistency and integrity across Workday and downstream financial systems
- Develop and maintain system documentation; leverage AI tools to accelerate documentation and identify logic gaps
- Troubleshoot system issues and implement scalable fixes
**Reporting & Insights:**
- Build and maintain advanced Workday reports, dashboards, and calculated fields
- Partner with stakeholders to deliver actionable insights across People and Finance
- Ensure consistency and integrity of workforce data
**Cross-Functional Partnership:**
- Partner with People Ops, Accounting, Payroll, Total Rewards, Finance, and IT to translate business requirements into system solutions
- Act as subject matter expert on Workday capabilities and limitations
- Support testing strategy and ensure high-quality system deployments
EarnIn is a fintech pioneer in earned wage access, enabling community members to access their earnings as they earn them without mandatory fees, interest rates, or credit checks. The company has strong backing from A16Z, Matrix Partners, DST, and Ribbit Capital.
**Requirements:**
- 3+ years of hands-on Workday Payroll configuration and administration experience (required)
- 5+ years of HRIS experience with deep Workday expertise
- Strong configuration experience in Workday Payroll and Core HCM
- Experience with Workday configuration including Business Process Framework, Security, and Advanced Reporting (Calculated Fields)
- Experience partnering cross-functionally with stakeholders in People, Accounting, Payroll, Finance, and IT
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience creating structured documentation and leveraging AI tools to enhance system design, testing, and analysis
- Advanced analytical and technical skills for translating business needs into requirements and delivering effective solutions
- Exceptional technical aptitude and strong desire for learning new technologies and solution architectures
**Preferred qualifications:**
- Experience with Advanced Compensation, Time and Absence, Talent/Performance modules, or Workday Extend
- Experience in global and matrixed organizations
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Information Systems, or equivalent
- Experience designing workflows across different areas in the employment lifecycle (recruiting, onboarding, career development, off-boarding)
