Senior Analyst, HRIS

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Houston, TX
Senior level
Legal Tech • Financial Services
The Role
The Senior HRIS Analyst will provide expertise in HR functions and optimization using Workday. Responsibilities include troubleshooting HRIS issues, collaborating with stakeholders on business requirements, maintaining system configurations, and developing reports. Strong understanding of Workday Security and modules is crucial, along with documenting changes and training staff.
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Job Description

We are a global law firm with a powerful strategic focus and real momentum. Our industry-focused strategy is seeing us take on pioneering work in places that others have yet to reach. Our shared values define our culture and our workplace. You will find us to be unusually collegial, team-oriented, and ready to innovate. We work seamlessly across practices, offices and around the world. This elimination of boundaries has allowed us to evolve into a law firm that works as hard for its culture as it does for its clients.

Norton Rose Fulbright is seeking a well-rounded and experienced Senior HRIS Analyst to join our team. This role requires someone with a deep understanding of HR functions and a strong background in Workday. The ideal candidate will have experience optimizing and troubleshooting issues with HR functions such as payroll, time tracking, benefits, recruiting, Prism, advanced compensation, and more. Additionally, the ideal candidate will excel in business process optimization and have strong expertise in Workday Security. This position reports to the Senior Manager, HRIS in Houston, Texas.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: 

HRIS Support 

  • Provide expertise in areas such as employee lifecycle management, organizational structures and HCM configuration 

  • Collaborate with stakeholders to identify business requirements and document project decisions, test results and approvals 

  • Ensure efficient design and implementation of HCM workflows 

  • Troubleshoot and resolve issues in Workday modules, including payroll, time tracking, benefits, recruiting, advanced compensation and others 

  • Review release documentation, recommend, implement and communicate new features 

  • Partner with IT and external vendors to implement and maintain system integrations 

  • Communicate accurately, timely and professionally to employees, managers, payroll and other team members 

  • Maintain a detailed understanding and working knowledge of the current HR system, its functions and its relationship to other information systems within the firm 

  • Continuously identifies areas of improvement for processes and configurations 

Workday Security 

  • Troubleshoot and resolve security-related issues in Workday 

  • Optimize security configurations to align with business needs and compliance requirements 

  • Stay updated on Workday security best practices and implement improvements 

Reporting 

  • Design and develop reports and dashboards to meet business requirements 

  • Utilize Workday Prism and other tools to enhance reporting capabilities 

  • Support reports with legacy data 

Training and Documentation 

  • Provide training and user guides to HR and business teams on Workday features and updates  

  • Document system changes, configurations and processes 

  • Provide knowledge transfer sessions to upskill HRIS team members 

Other duties 

Please note this job description does not cover or contain all activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. 

Qualifications and skills: 

  • Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Information Systems or a related field 

  • Minimum of five years of experience working with Workday, including core HCM and security 

  • Workday Security certification is strongly preferred 

  • Strong understanding of Workday modules and HR functions 

  • Experience in business process optimization and configuration 

  • Proficiency in Workday reporting tools 

  • Excellent troubleshooting, problem solving and communication skills 

  • Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment 

  • Experience and intermediate knowledge of Excel required 

  • Must display exceptional judgment and confidentiality 

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP is committed to providing employees with a comprehensive and competitive benefits package that supports you, your health, and your family. Benefit packages include access to three medical plans, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance. Employees can also access pre-tax benefits such as health savings and flexible spending accounts. Norton Rose Fulbright helps provide financial security by allowing employees to participate in a 401(k) savings plan and profit-sharing plans if eligible. Full- time employees are eligible to access fertility benefits designed to support fertility and family-forming journeys.

In addition to the Firm’s health and welfare benefits above, we offer a competitive paid time off plan, which provides a minimum of 20 days off based on your role and tenure with the firm. The firm offers a generous paid parental leave benefit allowing parents to take a minimum of 14 weeks of paid leave to bond with your newborn, or adopted child(ren). Employees are also entitled to 11 Firm holidays.

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and complies with all applicable federal laws and their implementing regulations that require the collection and recording of certain data and information. The information we receive will not be used to make any decision regarding employment and will be kept separate from your application. Similarly, self-identification information is kept confidential and used only in accordance with applicable federal laws and regulations. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Norton Rose Fulbright is committed to providing reasonable accommodation as an Equal Opportunity Employer to applicants with disabilities. If you require assistance or accommodation to complete your application, please contact [email protected]. Please provide your contact information and a description of your accessibility issue. We will make a determination on your request for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis.

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Workday
The Company
Denver, Colorado
8,733 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

We provide the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. We have more than 3,500 lawyers and other legal staff based in Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Africa.

Recognized for our industry focus, we are strong across all the key industry sectors: financial institutions; energy, infrastructure and resources; consumer markets; transport; technology; and life sciences and healthcare. Through our global risk advisory group, we leverage our industry experience with our knowledge of legal, regulatory, compliance and governance issues to provide our clients with practical solutions to the legal and regulatory risks facing their businesses.

Wherever we are, we operate in accordance with our global business principles of quality, unity and integrity. We aim to provide the highest possible standard of legal service in each of our offices and to maintain that level of quality at every point of contact.

Norton Rose Fulbright Verein, a Swiss verein, helps coordinate the activities of Norton Rose Fulbright members but does not itself provide legal services to clients. Norton Rose Fulbright has offices in more than 50 cities worldwide, including London, Houston, New York, Toronto, Mexico City, Hong Kong, Sydney and Johannesburg. For more information, see nortonrosefulbright.com/legal-notices

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