Description

Does the challenge that comes from driving complex employee facing experience issues for one of the largest employers excite you? Do you enjoy working in an entrepreneurial environment and delivering innovative solutions that enable your team and stakeholders to do their jobs more effectively and accurately by streamlining existing processes by leveraging technology?

The Global Amazon Payroll Team is seeking a Workday Business Analyst to help drive small scale automation improvements while partnering on larger scale efforts to enhance the employee experience in relation to Workday Payroll at Amazon. This position is responsible for facilitating the successful deployment of both internally built and purchased tools that will simplify the way we interact with employees while also helping us to quantify and capture additional areas for improvement in collaboration with both our internal and external partners.

Your primary responsibilities within our Payroll Systems team will be to dive deep into our existing processes and procedures and gain an understanding of our existing systems and processes to be able to identify opportunities to improve, while thinking critically to uncover any gaps in our current state. Within this role, you will partner with our internal payroll team as well as our technical partners, HR, benefits, and more to gather requirements, map out future state configurations, and drive the development of our testing strategy and validations. The ability to work cross functionally and to identify areas of need proactively is imperative to the continued growth and success of this initiative. Further, you will continue to drive continuous improvement post launch.

Successful candidates will have a business analyst background, have supported complex large scale initiatives and also have implemented small scale automations, be detail driven, have excellent problem solving abilities, and have experience working with Workday HCM/Payroll. You should not only be passionate about delivering extensible, on-time solutions, but should also be obsessed with contributing to the development of high-performance teams through rigorous planning, disciplined attention to detail, continuous process improvement and mentorship. You should have experience working with SME’s across multiple geographies, and using data to advance ideas and influence others. Finally, thinking big and setting a bold direction for the future is a must.

Key job responsibilities

Basic qualifications

• 2+ years of Workday experience covering business process configuration and setup of Workday HCM and/or Payroll, building EIBs, and developing reports

• Strong problem solving skills for assisting Payroll Operations team members in root cause and resolution of system errors and process failures

• Project leadership and delivery experience

• Strong competency in MS Excel and Access

• Experience working cross functionality across multiple geographies

• Proven analytical background

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, , Business, Computer Science or related field

• End-to-end implementation experience from requirements gathering to launch in at least one Workday HCM and/or Payroll project for U.S., Canada, and/or U.K.

• Workday Pro Path Certification

• Advanced data analytics skills

• Prior experience in Payroll

• Competency with SQL Server, Power BI, and other Macro and Scripting Languages

• A strong desire to exceed expectations and strong interpersonal skills, including persuasive written and oral communication skills

• Ability to successfully manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously

• Demonstrated ability of participating in milestone driven projects

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Hyderabad, TS, IND | Pune, MH, IND

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of Workday experience covering business process configuration and setup of Workday HCM and/or Payroll, building EIBs, and developing reports

• Strong problem solving skills for assisting Payroll Operations team members in root cause and resolution of system errors and process failures

• Project leadership and delivery experience

• Strong competency in MS Excel and Access

• Experience working cross functionality across multiple geographies

• Proven analytical background

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, , Business, Computer Science or related field

• End-to-end implementation experience from requirements gathering to launch in at least one Workday HCM and/or Payroll project for U.S., Canada, and/or U.K.

• Workday Pro Path Certification

• Advanced data analytics skills

• Prior experience in Payroll

• Competency with SQL Server, Power BI, and other Macro and Scripting Languages

• A strong desire to exceed expectations and strong interpersonal skills, including persuasive written and oral communication skills

• Ability to successfully manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously

• Demonstrated ability of participating in milestone driven projects