Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Advocate Health is a nonprofit, integrated health system committed to delivering exceptional care through innovation and expertise. The Workday System Analyst - Onboarding independently leads the configuration, maintenance, and optimization of Workday solutions supporting HR and workforce operations, with a focus on the end-to-end preboarding and onboarding experience. The role partners with HR, IT, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable system solutions and evaluate digital and AI-enabled capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary systems lead and subject matter expert for the new hire experience, partnering across Talent Acquisition, HR Shared Services, IT, and People & Culture teams to design, configure, optimize, and scale the end-to-end preboarding and onboarding journey from offer acceptance through Day 30
- Configure, maintain, and optimize assigned Workday modules to support end-to-end HR processes
- Partner with HR, IT, and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into system solutions
- Lead moderately complex initiatives and independently manage assigned work, priorities, and deliverables
- Support Workday configurations across areas such as Business Process Framework, security, eligibility rules, notifications, reporting, and dashboards
- Build and maintain advanced Workday reports, including calculated fields, dashboards, and data analysis
- Support process design and recommend scalable solutions that align with enterprise governance and best practices
- Lead end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional system solutions in partnership with HR and IT
- Ensure solutions adhere to architectural, security, privacy, compliance, and governance standards for sustainability and scalability
- Participate in release management, testing, data audits, and ongoing system maintenance
- Evaluate digital and AI-enabled solutions by assessing readiness, data integrity, integration capability, and operational viability
- Help improve teammate and manager experiences by designing simple, clear, and consistent HR system interactions
- Apply strong knowledge of employee lifecycle processes, including hire, movement, compensation, absence, and separation
- Support workforce data accuracy, consistency, and governance to enable reporting, compliance, and decision-making
- Independently explore, evaluate, and apply digital capabilities across varied domains and systems
Skills
- * Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Information Technology, or a related field
- * 2–4 years of Workday or HRIS experience
- * Workday configuration experience across modules, including Business Process Framework, security, eligibility rules, and notifications
- * Advanced Workday reporting knowledge, including calculated fields, dashboards, and data analysis
- * Foundational knowledge of integrations, EIBs, and data audits, with awareness of broader system impacts
- * Understanding of release management, testing standards, and system governance best practices
- * Ability to translate stakeholder needs into system designs while helping HR partners understand trade-offs, constraints, and implications
- * Strong understanding of employee lifecycle processes and how they connect to HR systems
- * Ability to balance system capability, people experience, operational feasibility, and enterprise standards
- * Strong attention to detail, problem-solving skills, and commitment to data accuracy, confidentiality, and data governance
- * Awareness of emerging technologies and how they can support HR systems, workforce operations, AI adoption, and enterprise scalability
- * Strong communication, collaboration, and relationship-building skills with the ability to partner effectively across HR, IT, and business teams
- * Workday Pro Certification or progress toward certification
- * Experience supporting Workday solutions in a large, complex, matrixed organization
- * Experience supporting onboarding, preboarding, talent acquisition, or employee lifecycle processes within Workday
- * Experience partnering cross-functionally with HR, IT, business leaders, and operational teams
- * Familiarity with digital transformation, automation, AI-enabled tools, or workforce technology optimization
- * Experience supporting workforce data governance, HR reporting, and enterprise-wide system improvements
Benefits
- Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
- Incentive pay for select positions
- Opportunity for annual increases based on performance
- Paid Time Off programs
- Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
- Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
- Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
- Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
- Educational Assistance Program
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