Workday HRIS Configuration Lead (Compensation, Advanced Compensation & Benefits)

Posted 9 Days Ago
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Hiring Remotely in NC, USA
Remote
100K-178K Annually
Senior level
Automotive • Retail
The Role
Lead design, configuration, and optimization of Workday for Compensation, Advanced Compensation, and Benefits. Serve as SME for business process frameworks, approval routing, eligibility, calculated fields, and enrollment workflows. Partner with Total Rewards, HR, Finance, Payroll, and analytics to ensure scalable, compliant configurations, drive automation, support reporting, and guide release enhancements and roadmap.
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Company:Driven Brands

Driven Brands is North America's largest automotive services company with a portfolio of iconic brands including Take 5 Oil Change®, Meineke Car Care Centers®, Maaco®, 1-800-Radiator & A/C®, Auto Glass Now®, and CARSTAR®. Our vision is to fuel the pursuit with the simplest, most convenient, and most reliable car care experience.

Headquartered in Charlotte, NC, Driven Brands is more than a workplace. We're a launchpad — for careers, for dreams, and for people driven to do great things.

Every day, we fuel the pursuit — for our customers chasing life's moments, for our franchisees building lasting legacies, and for each other as we grow, lead, and succeed together.

Performance matters. We take pride in it. We own it. We show up for one another and for our communities.

Because at Driven Brands, we're not just fixing cars. We're building futures, unlocking potential, and fueling what's possible — together.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Workday HRIS Configuration Lead is responsible for leading the design, configuration, and optimization of Workday across Compensation, Advanced Compensation, and Benefits. This role serves as the subject matter expert (SME) for Workday business processes (BPs) and system configuration, ensuring scalable, compliant, and efficient solutions that support enterprise compensation and benefits strategies.

This position partners closely with Total Rewards, HR, Finance, Payroll, and Leadership to deliver high-impact system capabilities that enable accurate compensation administration, streamline benefits processes, and support data-driven decision-making.

Key ResponsibilitiesWorkday Configuration & Business Process Leadership
  • Serve as SME for Workday business process (BP) design and configuration across Compensation, Advanced Compensation, and Benefits

  • Own end-to-end configuration including:

    • Compensation and Benefits business process frameworks

    • Approval routing, eligibility rules, and validations

    • Calculated fields supporting pay, eligibility, and enrollment logic

  • Design and optimize core processes such as:

    • Compensation review cycles (merit, bonus, equity if applicable)

    • Job change compensation impacts

    • Open enrollment and life event processing

    • Benefit eligibility and enrollment workflows

  • Ensure processes are scalable, auditable, and aligned with compliance requirements

  • Translate Total Rewards and Finance requirements into scalable Workday configuration solutions

  • Establish and enforce configuration standards for compensation and benefits processes

  • Ensure consistency across core HCM, Payroll, Recruiting, and downstream integrations

  • Evaluate and implement enhancements from Workday bi-annual releases

  • Own system configuration and roadmap for:

    • Compensation: grades, ranges, eligibility, defaulting rules

    • Benefits: eligibility rules, plans, event rules, open enrollment configuration

  • Ensure alignment of system configuration with compensation philosophy and benefits strategy

  • Partner with Total Rewards to support annual planning cycles and ongoing program changes

  • Act as primary HRIS escalation point for complex compensation and benefits issues

  • Collaborate with analytics teams to ensure configuration supports reporting and insights

  • Identify opportunities to automate compensation and benefits processes through Workday configuration

  • Improve user experience for managers and HR teams during comp cycles and enrollment periods

  • Drive adoption of new functionality across Total Rewards programs

QualificationsRequired
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

  • 5+ years of Workday configuration experience, with emphasis on Compensation and/or Benefits

  • Deep expertise in Workday Business Process Framework

  • Proven experience designing and supporting compensation cycles or benefits enrollment processes

  • Strong understanding of Total Rewards operations and regulatory considerations

Preferred
  • Workday Pro Certification(s) (Compensation, Advanced Compensation, Benefits)

  • Experience supporting complex or high-volume compensation cycles

  • Familiarity with payroll integrations and downstream impacts

  • Experience with reporting tools (e.g., Prism, composite reporting)

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Position Location:

North Carolina

Compensation Range:

$99,900.00 - $178,400.00

Compensation Frequency:

Annual

Base pay offered may vary depending on actual location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Supplemental pay types may include commissions or bonus incentives, depending on the role. Driven Brands offers a variety of health and wellness benefits including paid time off and holiday pay. Details regarding our benefits can be found here: https://www.drivenbrandsbenefits.com

Get early access to 50% of your earned wages at any time through our myFlexPay program.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of Workday configuration experience with emphasis on Compensation and/or Benefits
  • Deep expertise in Workday Business Process Framework
  • Proven experience designing and supporting compensation cycles or benefits enrollment processes
  • Strong understanding of Total Rewards operations and regulatory considerations
  • Workday Pro Certification(s) (Compensation, Advanced Compensation, Benefits)
  • Experience supporting complex or high-volume compensation cycles
  • Familiarity with payroll integrations and downstream impacts
  • Experience with reporting tools (e.g., Prism, composite reporting)
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The Company
HQ: Charlotte, North Carolina
1,690 Employees

What We Do

Driven Brands™, headquartered in Charlotte, NC, is the largest automotive services company in North America, providing a range of consumer and commercial automotive needs, including paint, collision, glass, vehicle repair, oil change, maintenance and car wash. Driven Brands is the parent company of some of North America’s leading automotive service businesses including Take 5 Oil Change®, Meineke Car Care Centers®, Maaco®, 1-800-Radiator & A/C®, and CARSTAR®. Driven Brands has more than 4,900 locations across 14 countries, and services over 70 million vehicles annually

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