Workday Systems Analyst

Department: 14218 Enterprise Corporate - People & Culture Digital Capabilities & Insights Status: Full time Benefits Eligible: Yes Hours Per Week: 40 Schedule Details/Additional Information: Remote Role Approved remote states: AL, AK, AR, AZ, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL (ONLY Midwest), IN, LA, KS, KY, ME, MI, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NM, NV, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WV, WY. Pay Range: $35.50 - $53.25 About This Opportunity This opportunity offers the chance to lead moderately complex Workday initiatives that support key HR processes across the teammate lifecycle, including hiring, onboarding, learning, movement, compensation, absence, and separation. The Systems Analyst Senior will independently manage assigned priorities, translate business needs into thoughtful Workday solutions, and ensure configurations align with enterprise standards, governance, security, and best practices. In this role, you’ll serve as a trusted technical resource and consultative partner, helping stakeholders understand system capabilities, trade-offs, and impacts while designing solutions that improve usability, consistency, data integrity, and operational effectiveness. Leveraging strong Workday knowledge and hands-on configuration experience, you'll play a key role in enhancing HR technology solutions that support workforce operations and elevate the teammate experience. What You’ll Do Independently support and lead the configuration, maintenance, and optimization of assigned Workday modules. Partner cross-functionally with HR, IT, and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable Workday configurations. Configure and optimize Workday business processes, security, eligibility rules, notifications, reporting, and related system functionality. Lead moderately complex initiatives with minimal support while managing assigned work, priorities, timelines, and deliverables. Support HR process design and ensure Workday solutions align with governance, best practices, enterprise standards, and teammate experience goals. Lead end-to-end delivery of cross-functional system solutions in partnership with HR and IT. Evaluate and apply digital capabilities across varied systems and domains to improve HR service delivery and workforce operations. Ensure solutions adhere to architectural, security, compliance, privacy, and governance standards. Support system reliability, data integrity, release management, testing, and operational sustainability. Evaluate digital and AI-enabled solutions by assessing readiness, data integrity, integration capability, and operational viability. Use workforce data and reporting insights to support decision-making, compliance, and continuous improvement. Balance stakeholder needs with Workday capabilities, system constraints, and enterprise standards. What You’ll Bring Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Information Technology, or a related field. 2–4 years of Workday or HRIS experience. Strong hands-on Workday configuration experience across Workday modules. Experience with Workday Business Process Framework, security, eligibility rules, notifications, and system governance. Advanced Workday reporting knowledge, including calculated fields, dashboards, and data analysis. Foundational knowledge of integrations, EIBs, data audits, and system impacts. Understanding of Workday release management, testing standards, and implementation best practices. Strong understanding of employee lifecycle processes, including hire, movement, compensation, absence, and separation. Ability to translate HR and business needs into system designs that balance capability, teammate experience, and operational feasibility. Strong consultation skills with the ability to explain system trade-offs, constraints, and implications to HR and business partners. Commitment to workforce data stewardship, confidentiality, privacy, and appropriate use of employee data. Ability to design and refine Workday interactions that improve usability, consistency, adoption, and the overall teammate experience. Interest in digital and AI-enabled capabilities that support HR systems, workforce operations, and enterprise scalability. Preferred Workday Pro Certification or active progress toward certification. Experience supporting multiple Workday modules in a complex enterprise environment. Experience partnering with HR, IT, and business stakeholders on cross-functional system initiatives. Experience supporting Workday reporting, dashboards, calculated fields, integrations, business processes, security, and release testing. Familiarity with emerging technologies, digital tools, and AI-enabled solutions that enhance HR service delivery and workforce insights. DISCLAIMER All responsibilities and requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only responsibilities to be performed by an employee occupying this job or position. Employees must follow any other job-related instructions and perform any other job-related duties requested by their leaders. Our Commitment to You: Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work, including: Compensation Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training 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 Benefits and more 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 Note: Eligibility for programs listed above may depend on your FTE or status (e.g., full-time, part-time, per diem, temporary, etc.); please ask a Recruiter for more information during an interview. About Advocate Health Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits. This is Transformation One shared purpose brought us together. Now, as one of the 10 largest not-for-profit, integrated health systems in the United States, our combined strength and stability drives us forward. Starting with You Caring for nearly 3 million people has inspired a transformation. One in which the patient’s experience guides our vision and empowers us to offer new possibilities in our communities. Reshaping Access What is access? It’s offering more sites of care than any other health system in the Midwest. But there’s a new frontier. Access is exploring the latest technologies to deliver care to patients exactly where they are and exactly when they need it Inspiring Professionals With our dynamically inclusive workforce and strong connections to the places where we live and work, we’ll touch more lives and contribute to stronger and more vibrant communities. Transforming Care We’re redefining the standard for care with world-class doctors and caregivers, innovative solutions, outstanding outcomes, and leading-edge research and clinical trials. Combined, Advocate and Aurora are recognized for clinical excellence in: Cardiovascular Care Neurosciences Gynecology Oncology Pediatrics Primary Care Neurology Geriatrics Trauma Care