Workday Functional Analyst – Core HCM

About Us

Join us at WinCo Foods, where we're more than just a grocery retailer - we're a growing family of over 140 supermarkets in 10 states with over 22,000 employee owners. Our purpose is to make the lives of our customers and employee owners better by offering the lowest possible prices to feed their families. Currently, WinCo is the second largest Employee-Owned company in the United States. With more than 500 millionaire employee-owners in our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). Our benefits, including top-tier medical plans and tuition support set us apart. In your role, you'll be instrumental in making a real impact in the communities we serve, embodying our purpose every day.

Overview

Job Summary

The Workday Functional Analyst (Core HCM) manages, configures, and optimizes the Payroll and Benefits modules within the Workday HCM platform to ensure accurate data flow, system compliance, and operational efficiency. This position maintains security in the platform and partners with HR (Centers of Excellence, Business Partners, Operations), IT, and Compliance to keep access appropriate and audit ready.

Typical Duties and Responsibilities

• Analysis-Proactively partner with end-users to identify opportunities for business process improvement through better leverage or enhancement of existing systems. Contribute to the continuous improvement of HR systems and processes through use of best practices.• Support-Analyze issues concerning systems affecting internal customers; this may include software issues, software changes, and/or new software packages. Provide excellent customer support in resolving system issues and outages. Liaise with vendors when escalated issues arise.• Implementation- Develop and implement system enhancements based on requests from the business and educated recommendations. Grant security and permissions within the system and create new user groups and roles as required. Coordinate with internal stakeholders to roll out new functionality and modules.• Testing-Perform initial test setups for new applications and procedures. Define test criteria and ensure that adequate testing is performed on system modifications to provide quality assurance of data.• Administer and maintain security configuration in Workday: roles, role based and user-based security, permissions, and data visibility.• Provision access for new and changing workers and remove access on transfer or termination.• Review and action user access requests against role design and least privilege principles before granting.• Conduct periodic security audits for sensitive access (compensation, payroll, PII, HIPAA) and remediate exceptions.• Troubleshoot security related access issues by diagnosing domain and business process security policies.• Identify, document, and help remediate segregation of duties conflicts in support of audit requirements.• Support periodic access certification reviews and provide evidence and change history for internal and external audits.• Participate in security projects such as multi factor authentication rollout and data encryption.• Maintain up to date security documentation, policies, and controls.

Requirements

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, information technology, human resources or equivalent work experience.• Minimum two years of experience in HR software administration with proven in-depth knowledge of at least one functional area. • Minimum of two years of progressive experience as an analyst, consultant, or similar role.• Knowledge of HCM or enterprise systems security.• Proficient use of Microsoft Office suite and SharePoint software.• Knowledge of Agile development methodologies.• Knowledge of IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL).

Ability to:

• Demonstrate expertise of Workday modules, data structure, security model, and configuration options.• Knowledge and understanding of business process concepts including process mapping, process design and performance management.• Ability to prioritize responsibilities and multi-task to develop and produce accurate, professional and error-free documents on a timely basis.• Demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills with the flexibility and ability to work with multiple business areas at different levels within the company.• Ability to maintain positive interpersonal relationships.• Utilize report writing and query skills.• Understanding of user roles, permissions, domain and business process security policies, and how they drive what a user can see and do.• Ability to read and analyze security logs and audit trails to spot unusual activity or potential breaches.• Knowledge of segregation of duties and access certification concepts.• Align HCM process knowledge to security with how the business works.• Use effective communication skills to convey security concepts and risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.• Meticulous attention to detail in security configuration and access monitoring.• Strong commitment to data security, confidentiality, and ethical standards.• Ability to document security policies, procedures, and incident reports accurately.• Willingness to stay current on Workday updates and security best practices.• Attention to detail across data, configuration, and compliance.• Consistently provide friendly and engaging customer service.• Utilize strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.

Machines and Equipment Operated:

• Office machines (e.g., cell phone, computer, copy machine, telephone, fax, etc.) and other devices.

Preferred Education, Experience and/or Credentials:

• Understanding of Workday security features, role-based permissions, and security configuration options.• Proficiency with the Workday platform across configuration, reporting, security, integrations, and business process optimization.• Experience with Workday HCM modules.• Experience in retail business operations.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of work performed by the employees assigned to this job. All employees must comply with Company policies and applicable laws. The responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of personnel may vary.

EEO/Inclusivity

As the WinCo Foods community continues to grow, our variety of perspectives and wide range of experiences are essential to our strategy and success. We are committed cultivating and celebrating an inclusive environment in which all employees are valued and respected.

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