Senior Workday Engineer (HR focus)

Are you ready to trade your job for a journey? Become a FlyMate!

Passion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a FlyMate. At Flywire, we’re on a mission to deliver the world’s most important and complex payments. We use our Flywire Advantage - the combination of our next-gen payments platform, proprietary payment network and vertical specific software, to help our clients get paid, and help their customers pay with ease - no matter where they are in the world.

What more do we need to truly be unstoppable? Perhaps, that is you! 

Who we are: 

Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company, founded more than a decade ago to solve high-stakes, high-value payments in higher education. We’ve since scaled into new regions and industry verticals and expanded our product offerings to deliver meaningful value to our clients around the world. 

Today we support more than 5,100 clients across the global education, healthcare, travel & B2B industries, with diverse payment methods across 240 countries & territories and more than 140 currencies.

With over 1,200 global FlyMates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 12 offices world-wide, we’re looking for FlyMates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow.a

Key Responsibilities:

• System Configuration and Optimization: Execute the Workday HRIS roadmap to support long-term business goals and scalability. Troubleshoot configuration and reporting issues, identify root causes, and participate in developing new features and functionality.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Serve as a technical liaison for stakeholder teams, advising on system capabilities and automation opportunities to drive competitive advantage.
• Operational Management:  Partner with stakeholders and technical teams to ensure configurations and implementations are developed, tested, and operationally ready.
• Governance and Compliance: Ensure adherence to all security, availability, confidentiality, and privacy policies and controls.
• Reporting and Analytics:  Design, create, maintain, and support standard and custom reports and queries using Prism Analytics to provide actionable insights for executive leadership.
• Technology Transformation and Innovation: Champion Workday initiatives including semi-annual release testing, new module implementations, and complex process redesigns. Evaluate emerging technologies and new Workday features to enhance business efficiency.
• Training and Support: Develop guidelines and documentation while providing high-tier technical support to ensure successful adoption of system changes and best practices.

Here's what we are looking for: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Finance, HR, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in Workday development, specifically supporting HRIS modules.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical requirements into business-friendly language.
• A solid track record of developing in complex Workday environments, including business process configuration, security, and reporting.
• Proven experience managing bidirectional data handshakes and resolving ownership conflicts in complex Workday Environments.
• Data-driven decision-maker with experience in automation and an understanding of the interactions between people, processes, and systems.
• Excellent organizational skills and experience working in Agile environments, with the ability to pivot quickly when business strategies change.
• Prior experience implementing or maintaining Workday systems
• Ability to model and configure workflows & systems that recognize both complexity and user experience
• Knowledge of Workday integration tools (EIB, Workday studio, Workday Report Writer) and ETL processes and tools.
• Ability to work with XML, Java and Web Service based integrations.
• Experience with Agile Methodologies
• Strong Problem-solving abilities and works independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experienced with Workday implementations that spans multiple countries
• Experience with FinTech

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Flying Start - Our immersive Global Induction Program (Meet our Execs & Global Teams)
• Work with brilliant people that will keep you on your toes, learn more about their journeys by checking out #InsideFlywire on social media
• Dynamic & Global Team (we have been collaborating virtually for years!)
• Wellbeing Programs (Mental Health, Wellness, Yoga/Pilates/HIIT Classes) with Global FlyMates
• Be a meaningful part in our success - every FlyMate makes an impact
• Competitive time off including FlyBetter Days to volunteer in a cause you believe in and
• Digital Disconnect Days!
• Great Talent & Development Programs (Managers Taking Flight – for new or aspiring managers!)

Submit today and get started!

We are excited to get to know you! Throughout our process you can expect to meet with different FlyMates including the Hiring Manager, Peers on the team, the VP of the department, and a skills assessment. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will walk you through the steps and be your “go-to” person for any questions.

Flywire is an equal opportunity employer and follows a policy of administering all employment decisions and personnel actions without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, pregnancy, gender identity, national origin, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, genetic disposition or carrier status, veteran status, or any other category protected under applicable national, federal, state or local law.

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