Sr. Manager, HRIS

At Early Warning, we’ve powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle®, Paze℠, and so much more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses. Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment. Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship. Overall Purpose Reporting to the Director, People Analytics and HR Automation, this position provides strategic leadership for the company’s HR systems, with primary focus on the long-term vision, optimization, governance, and effective use of Workday. This role partners closely with HR leadership to translate business strategies into scalable technology solutions that improve processes, create efficiencies, strengthen data integrity, and enhance the employee and manager experience. This position leads a team of senior HR systems analysts while also serving as a hands-on Workday subject matter expert. The role is responsible for team leadership, prioritization, coaching, system strategy, configuration support, issue resolution, release readiness, and continuous improvement of the Workday platform. Essential Functions Develop and drive the strategic vision and roadmap for Workday and related HR systems, ensuring alignment with HR priorities, business needs, compliance requirements, and the employee experience. Partner with HR leadership to translate business strategies into Workday solutions, process improvements, automation opportunities, and technology requirements. Lead, coach, and develop a team of senior HR systems analysts, including prioritizing work, managing performance, and supporting career development. Serve as a hands-on Workday subject matter expert, supporting configuration, testing, troubleshooting, business process design, security, reporting, and system optimization. Lead system support for annual and recurring HR processes, including Talent, Performance, Advanced Compensation, Recruiting, Benefits, Payroll, and Learning, as needed. Oversee Workday releases, enhancements, upgrades, implementations, and new functionality assessments in partnership with internal teams. Monitor system performance, data integrity, and transaction accuracy through audits, analysis, issue resolution, and process improvement recommendations. Serve as an escalation point for complex Workday issues, partnering with HR, IT, Payroll, Finance, Legal, Compliance, and vendors to implement sustainable solutions. Establish and maintain HR systems governance, including intake, prioritization, documentation, testing standards, release planning, change management, and stakeholder communication. Develop and maintain user procedures, guidelines, training materials, and system documentation to support effective Workday adoption. Support HR compliance, immigration, reporting, audit, risk management, and data confidentiality requirements. Minimum Qualifications Education and/or experience typically obtained through the completion of a bachelor’s degree. Typically, a minimum of 10 or more years of HR systems, HR technology, Workday, HR operations, or related experience. Minimum of 2 years of people leadership experience, including coaching, performance management, prioritization, and development of team members. Demonstrated expert-level Workday HR functional system experience, including hands-on configuration. Experience leading or supporting Workday strategy, roadmap development, governance, releases, enhancements, implementations, or optimization efforts. Strong understanding of Workday functionality, business processes, security, reporting, integrations, testing, and configuration best practices. Ability to lead senior-level analysts while remaining actively involved in hands-on Workday configuration, troubleshooting, solution design, and system support. Strong ability to translate HR business needs into scalable technology solutions. Highly collaborative with strong written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills. Ability to manage ambiguity, competing priorities, and multiple projects in a fast-paced environment. High integrity and ethics in handling confidential information. Background and drug screen. The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow instructions and perform other related duties as assigned by their supervisor. Physical Requirements Working conditions consist of a normal office environment. Work is primarily sedentary and requires extensive use of a computer and involves sitting for periods of approximately four hours. Work may require occasional standing, walking, kneeling, and reaching. Must be able to lift 10 pounds occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently. Requires visual acuity and dexterity to view, prepare, and manipulate documents and office equipment including personal computers. Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers. Employee must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of position with or without reasonable accommodation. The base pay scale for this position in: Phoenix, AZ in USD per year is: $129,000 - $161,000. Additionally, candidates are eligible for a discretionary incentive plan and benefits. This pay scale is subject to change and is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any specific candidate, which is always dependent on legitimate factors considered at the time of job offer. Early Warning Services takes into consideration a variety of factors when determining a competitive salary offer, including, but not limited to, the job scope, market rates and geographic location of a position, candidate’s education, experience, training, and specialized skills or certification(s) in relation to the job requirements and compared with internal equity (peers). The business actively supports and reviews wage equity to ensure that pay decisions are not based on gender, race, national origin, or any other protected classes. Some of the Ways We Prioritize Your Health and Happiness Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses. 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility. Paid Time Off – Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day. 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work. And SO much more! We continue to enhance our program, so be sure to check our Benefits page here for the latest. Our team can share more during the interview process! Early Warning Services, LLC (“Early Warning”) considers for employment, hires, retains and promotes qualified candidates on the basis of ability, potential, and valid qualifications without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other bases such as medical condition, marital status or any other factor that is irrelevant to the performance of our employees. Early Warning Services LLC is a proud participant in E-Verify, a federal program to help ensure a legal and authorized workforce. As part of our hiring process, we electronically verify the employment eligibility of all new hires through E-Verify. For more information on your rights and responsibilities under E-Verify please visit Home | E-Verify. CURRENT EMPLOYEES: Apply for open positions via Job Hub in your Workday Account. Early Warning Services® delivers innovative payment and risk solutions to financial institutions nationwide. For over 25 years, Early Warning has been a leader in technology that helps protect and advance the financial system. We serve a diverse network of approximately 2,500 financial institutions, government entities and payment companies. Our product solutions enable real-time funds availability for a variety of payment types through our payments network. Early Warning Services, LLC (“Early Warning”) considers for employment, hires, retains and promotes qualified candidates on the basis of ability, potential, and valid qualifications without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other bases such as medical condition, marital status or any other factor that is irrelevant to the performance of our employees. Early Warning Services® aims to make our recruitment process accessible to any and all users. 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