Senior Analyst, HRIS - Workday

Position Summary As ICU Medical transitions to Workday, this role will support the implementation of Workday, with a focus on the Integrations and Reporting/Analytics workstreams, by assisting with requirements documentation, testing, data validation, reporting, and post-go-live support. Working under the direction of the Workday Program Manager, the HRIS Manager and senior project team members, this position will partner with the functional HR, Finance, IT & Training business leaders to ensure integrations requirements are collected and mirrored in our Workday platform. Reporting & Analytics will also be a key focus for this role. Ensuring current data reporting is available and no business gaps are created with the deployment.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities Workday Report Development

• Design, build, and maintain advanced Workday reports (Advanced, Matrix, Composite) and complex calculated fields across HCM, Recruiting, Compensation, Benefits, Absence, Talent, and Payroll.

• Build reporting solutions that account for Workday security model impacts (domain, role-based, and user-based security), ensuring accurate, appropriately scoped data for each audience.

• Build and manage dashboards and discovery boards to deliver self-service analytics to HR leadership and COE partners.

• Serve as an escalation point for report defects, performance issues, and complex data interpretation questions, and evaluate new reporting features with each biannual Workday release.

Integrations

• Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain Workday integrations using EIB, XSLT, Document Transformation, Core Connectors, Cloud Connect, Studio, and Workday Web Services (SOAP/REST APIs).

• Develop and support inbound and outbound integrations across Workday HCM, Payroll, Benefits, Finance, and various third-party vendors.

• Partner with Workday analysts and business stakeholders to gather integration requirements and translate them into scalable technical designs.

• Own the full integration lifecycle, including requirements gathering, functional and technical design, development, UAT, deployment, and post-production support.

• Design and maintain custom reports that serve as data sources for outbound integrations, including web service-enabled reports (RaaS) consumed by downstream systems and vendors.

• Develop integration audit, reconciliation, and error reporting to monitor data flows between Workday and connected systems.

• Partner with the HRIS team on reporting requirements for integrations built on EIBs, Core Connectors, Studio, and Orchestrate, and validate report-based integration outputs during testing cycles and biannual releases.

• Ensure all integrations comply with data privacy, security, and audit requirements, aligning with organizational and regulatory standards.

Team & Platform Partnership

• Support Workday bi-annual releases by assessing potential impacts, conducting regression testing, and implementing required updates.

• Collaborate closely with the HRIS team on configuration changes, integrations, and platform enhancements that affect reporting.

• Mentor report writers and analysts, and contribute to reporting standards, naming conventions, and best practices.

• Advise on data quality, governance, and audit readiness, and identify opportunities to extend analytics beyond native Workday via Prism Analytics or Power BI.

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong technical expertise in Workday integrations (EIB, XSLT, DT, Core Connectors, Studio, SOAP/REST).

• Experience supporting integrations across Workday HCM and Financials.

• Ability to gather and translate business requirements into scalable, reliable integration solutions.

• Proficiency with web services and APIs.

• Advanced skills in Workday calculated fields and report creation.

• Strong ability to prioritize work, manage time independently, and follow through on tasks.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

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