Senior Specialist, HRIS

Job Title: HRIS Senior Analyst (Workday Specialist)

Position Overview: We are seeking a detail-oriented HRIS Senior Analyst with expertise in Workday, experienced in multiple functional areas such as HCM, time tracking, absence, performance, position management, reporting, and analytics. The ideal candidate will excel in troubleshooting HCM-related issues, managing configuration changes across various Workday SKUs, and possess a strong background in developing and executing test scenarios to ensure system accuracy and performance. Proficiency in position management, reporting, and analytics—as well as hands-on experience with building dashboards and utilizing Workday hubs—is essential. This role involves close collaboration with business stakeholders to optimize Workday processes, provide expert insights, and ensure the system effectively meets organizational needs. Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Workday Reporting:

• Create advanced, matrix, and composite reports.
• Update and revise reports as needed to meet evolving business requirements.
• Build alerts and notifications based on reporting insights.
• Design and populate EIBs for key Workday processes, including payroll, benefits, HCM, compensation, promotions, and one-time payments.
• Create and/or modify dashboards and Workday hubs to help with data analytics.

Production Support/ Workday Release Management:

• Troubleshoot and resolve configuration issues, working closely with the business to understand requirements.
• Address system errors and discrepancies reported by HR to ensure optimal system functionality.
• Partner with technical teams to ensure smooth integration of external systems into Workday.
• Lead comprehensive testing, including open enrollment, Calibration and compensation cycle, by creating test scenarios and using dummy data via EIBs.
• Troubleshoot and resolve Workday security issues efficiently (preferred).
• Modify and manage security groups, domains, and policies, ensuring compliance and data integrity (preferred).
• Create and run regression test cases for biannual Workday releases.
• Stay informed on new release features and apply necessary configurations to HCM, absence, time tracking, performance, benefits, and payroll modules. Configuration Troubleshooting

Qualifications:

• At least 3 years of hands-on experience with Workday, specifically in reporting & analytics, EIB management, HCM, performance, absence and time-tracking.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Word.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work independently.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Benefits and Perks:

Apellis offers a great benefit package which includes: health insurance with full premium coverage, 401K with company match, paid time off (PTO), long- term disability insurance, life insurance and more!  Visit https://apellis.com/careers/ to learn more.
Company Background:

Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a global biopharmaceutical company that combines courageous science and compassion to develop life-changing therapies for some of the most challenging diseases patients face. We ushered in the first new class of complement medicine in 15 years and now have two approved medicines targeting C3. These include the first and only therapy for geographic atrophy, a leading cause of blindness around the world. With nearly a dozen clinical and pre-clinical programs underway, we believe we have only begun to unlock the potential of targeting C3 across many serious diseases.

For more information, please visit http://apellis.com or follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn

EEO Statement:

Apellis is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state and local fair employment practices laws. Apellis strictly prohibits and does not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex (including pregnancy), gender (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender or transsexual individual), age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, past, current or prospective service in the uniformed services, genetic information, marital status, AIDS/HIV status, smoker/nonsmoker, and occupational pneumoconiosis or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law.

For San Francisco postings: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.  

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of 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.