General Motors is seeking a Sr. Workday Functional Analyst with strong expertise in Core HCM and Workday Business Processes (BPs) to support and enhance our Workday environment. This role will partner closely with HR, Payroll, Recruiting, Compensation, and IT teams to configure, optimize, and troubleshoot Workday processes while ensuring efficient and scalable HR operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Configure and maintain Workday Core HCM and Business Processes in the functional areas of Staffing, Onboarding, Jobs & Positions, Contact Information and Personal Information.to deliver projects, changes/enhancement requests
- Manage BP routing, approvals, condition rules, notifications, validations, documents, questionnaires, business process security policies, etc.
- Support Workday production issues serving as a Tier escalation contact
- Review automatically available items as part of the WD R1/R2 release for impact and support regression testing
- Review and disposition setup required items as part of the R1/R2 release for functionality uptake
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to gather requirements and implement system improvements
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including HR leaders, IT professionals, and end-users
Qualifications
- 4+ years of Workday functional experience
- Strong knowledge of Workday Core HCM and BP Framework
- Experience with Workday security, reporting, and calculated fields
- Ability to troubleshoot complex business process and configuration issues
- Strong communication (written and verbal), analytical, and stakeholder management skills
- Experience creating and processing EIB files to support mass business transactions
- Strong understanding of HR processes and best practices
- Familiarity with configuration deployment tools: tenant compare, configuration change tracker/extracts, Object Transporter (OX) configuration
Preferred Experience
- Compensation, Recruiting, Absence, Benefits, or Payroll exposure
- Experience working in Agile or enterprise HRIS environments
- Workday certification in Core HCM and/or relevant modules
Compensation:
The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws.
The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position, as well as geography of the selected candidate.
- The salary range for this role is $105,000 - $140,000. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
- Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
- Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more
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This role is based remotely, but if the selected candidate lives within a specific mile radius of a GM hub, they will be expected to report to the location three times a week {or other frequency dictated by your manager}.
This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.
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Skills Required
- 4+ years of Workday functional experience
- Strong knowledge of Workday Core HCM and BP Framework
- Experience with Workday security, reporting, and calculated fields
- Ability to troubleshoot complex business process and configuration issues
- Strong communication, analytical, and stakeholder management skills
- Experience creating and processing EIB files for mass business transactions
- Strong understanding of HR processes and best practices
- Familiarity with configuration deployment tools: tenant compare, configuration change tracker/extracts, Object Transporter (OX) configuration
- Compensation, Recruiting, Absence, Benefits, or Payroll exposure
- Experience working in Agile or enterprise HRIS environments
- Workday certification in Core HCM and/or relevant modules
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