OVERVIEW
The Advanced Compensation HRIS specialist is a hands-on Workday expert responsible for supporting, optimizing, and enhancing Workday HCM within the construction management and renewable energy industry. This role serves as a subject matter expert in Workday HCM Core and Advanced Compensation modules, ensuring accurate HR data, system compliance, and scalable workforce solutions. The HRIS Specialist will serve as the subject matter expert for Workday Advanced Compensation, supporting the design, configuration, and ongoing optimization of compensation programs including merit, bonus, equity, and long-term incentive plans.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Serve as the functional lead and subject matter expert for Workday Advanced Compensation
- Design, configure, maintain, and optimize Workday Advanced Compensation module, including merit cycles, bonus plans, stock/equity awards, and compensation guidelines
- Partner closely with Compensation, Finance, HR, and IT to ensure compensation processes are scalable, compliant, and aligned with organizational strategy
- Lead system configuration, enhancements, and annual compensation cycles, while ensuring data integrity, audit readiness, and an exceptional user experience
- Lead end-to-end annual compensation cycle activities (planning, configuration, testing, launch, and post-cycle analysis)
- Design and maintain eligibility rules, budgets, guidelines, prevailing wages, and other compensation matrices
- Design, govern, and continuously improve the Workday Job Catalog architecture to ensure job profiles, families, and levels are consistent, scalable, and aligned to the organization's structure and business strategy
- Support market pricing integrations and benchmarking processes
- Develop and maintain compensation reports, dashboards, and analytics for leadership insights
- Support audit and compliance requirements related to compensation processes
- Identify opportunities for automation and process optimization to improve efficiency and user experience
- Lead and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for compensation-related enhancements
- Troubleshoot complex compensation issues and provide Tier 2/3 support
- Develop, validate, and maintain advanced/matrix reports, calculated fields, dashboards, and analytics to support business decision-making
- Support Workday semiannual release cycles including impact assessment, configuration updates, regression testing, documentation, and stakeholder communication
- Follow established documentation, change control, change management, testing, and release protocols to ensure consistent and reliable configuration deployment
- Perform other duties as assigned
QUALIFICATIONS
- 3–5+ years of Workday experience, with strong expertise in Advanced Compensation
- Strong understanding of HR business processes, Core HCM data structures, compensation, and employee lifecycle transactions
- Proficiency in configuring, testing, and implementing system changes and enhancements while minimizing disruption to HR operations
- Experience supporting annual compensation planning cycles at scale
- Strong understanding of compensation strategy, structures, and market data
- Hands-on experience designing and maintaining Workday Job Catalog architecture (job profiles, job families, levels) aligned with compensation, recruiting, and organizational structure
- Experience with Workday reporting (advanced, matrix, dashboards, calculated fields) and data analysis
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex system issues, perform root-cause analysis, and deliver scalable solutions
- Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently, and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced environment
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills
- Experience supporting HR systems in large, project-driven organizations with complex compensation structures
- Preferred: Workday certification in HCM, Compensation, Advanced Compensation, or Reporting
- Preferred: Exposure to equity administration tools or Total Rewards systems
- Preferred: Familiarity with agile methodologies and tools such as Jira
- Preferred: Knowledge of Prevailing Wage and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)
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