Senior Systems Analyst – Workday Time & Absence Implementation Lead

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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1956

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Healthcare • Logistics • Manufacturing

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of more than $40 billion. Their mission is to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer by supporting life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing laboratory productivity, and improving patient health through diagnostics and the development of life-changing therapies. With a global team, they offer innovative technologies and pharmaceutical services through brands such as Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon, and PPD.

📋 Description

• Serve as functional and configuration lead for Workday Time Tracking and Absence implementations, including M&A, divestitures, payroll transformations, and other HR technology initiatives • Lead discovery and requirements activities covering business processes, time and absence practices, policies, payroll dependencies, regulatory requirements, and technology • Perform fit-gap assessments and translate requirements into scalable solutions • Design, configure, test, and deploy Workday Absence solutions, including time-off plans, leave types, accruals, eligibility rules, business processes, and workflows • Design, configure, test, and deploy Workday Time Tracking solutions, including eligibility, workflows, overtime rules, differentials, time calculations, and related payroll earnings • Prototype solutions, identify gaps, evaluate alternatives, and assess impacts across HCM, Payroll, Compensation, security, and integrations • Partner with integration and payroll teams on third-party payroll interfaces and related data • Maintain functional, configuration, design, and test documentation • Lead Time Tracking and Absence workstreams through planning, design, configuration, testing, deployment, cutover, and stabilization • Develop and manage workstream plans covering scope, schedule, resources, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and governance • Coordinate internal teams, Workday consultants, implementation partners, and vendors • Identify and mitigate risks and issues, develop remediation plans, and escalate key decisions and dependencies • Lead workstream governance and communicate project status, risks, issues, and decisions to stakeholders • Manage multiple concurrent initiatives while maintaining alignment with program objectives and milestones • Oversee partner and vendor deliverables, resources, timelines, budgets, and contractual commitments as applicable • Lead testing, including test strategy, scenarios, defect management, functional, integration, payroll, regression, and user acceptance testing • Review solution designs, configurations, specifications, test plans, and other deliverables for quality and completeness • Lead deployment readiness and cutover activities, including configuration migration, data validation, integration and business readiness, and go-live activities • Provide functional and project leadership during stabilization and hypercare and ensure transition to operational support

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Human Resources, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience • 5+ years of experience with Tier 1 HCM systems and HR technology implementations, including application configuration and complex technology projects • Strong hands-on functional and configuration experience with Workday Time Tracking and Absence Management or equivalent Tier 1 HCM solutions • Experience leading HR technology projects or workstreams in a global, matrixed organization • Experience across the project lifecycle, including requirements, solution design, configuration, testing, deployment, and stabilization • Strong knowledge of Time Tracking and Absence processes and their dependencies with Payroll and other HCM processes • Understanding of HR processes, HR data, and enterprise HCM systems, including impacts of organizational, policy, and system changes • Ability to serve as both a hands-on Workday configuration expert and project workstream leader, managing scope, schedules, dependencies, risks, and delivery • Strong understanding of Workday Time Tracking and Absence configuration, business processes, dependencies, and implementation methodology • Ability to coordinate consultants, vendors, internal teams, and stakeholders across functions and organizational levels • Strong analytical skills with the ability to evaluate complex requirements and recommend practical solutions • Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, including communicating technical concepts in user-friendly language • Highly organized, self-motivated, and able to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic, global environment while maintaining quality and customer focus • Experience with M&A, divestitures, enterprise transformations, employee migrations, or similar cross-functional initiatives is strongly preferred • Knowledge of Workday HCM, Payroll, Compensation, security, business processes, and integrations is preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement • Standard Monday-Friday work schedule

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