Senior Workday HRIS Analyst, People Systems & Strategy

Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer.
Ginkgo is constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world in order to answer the globe’s growing challenges in health, energy, food, materials, and more.
Our bioengineers make use of an in-house automated foundry for designing and building new organisms.
Critical to this mission is our people, whose passion, innovation, and drive enable Ginkgo’s continuous progress and achievements.
Our People Team strives to be a trusted partner and resource to all of our team members, so that everyone is free to unleash their creative energies on engineering biology.
We’re honored to be a trusted partner and resource for all of Ginkgo, and our team is growing.
We’re seeking an organized, innovative, analytical and collaborative Senior Workday HRIS Analyst to join our team and help drive some of Ginkgo’s People System initiatives.
You will be responsible for designing, enhancing, implementing and supporting various people system related processes and solutions.
You will lead change initiatives and as one of our primary support contacts for Workday, you’ll collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to drive operational improvements that optimize service levels and inform sound business decisions across Ginkgo.
Responsibilities: Act as a specialized techno-functional senior analyst, managing and leading assigned HR system projects and initiatives.
Have an expert level of techno-functional knowledge with the ability to lead the analysis, recommendation, and configuration of process improvements and system enhancements for our various Workday HCM modules.
Existing modules in production include Core HR, Benefits, Compensation, Absence, Time & Time Off, Payroll, and Performance.
Demonstrate a proactive and independent approach to problem-solving, identifying opportunities for system improvement and driving initiatives without constant supervision.
Collaborate and partner across multiple departments and teams to understand business needs and to assess Workday configuration feasibility and impact to other business processes, integrations, or security.
Design, create and maintain custom reporting, including calculated fields in the system.
Manage the 2 bi-annual Workday releases, identifying impact and enhancement opportunities associated with a new release, and communicating appropriately.
Manage and execute regression testing and introduction of required changes as new releases are introduced.
Provide functional and technical support, troubleshoot system problems, configure improvements, test system changes, and design & document test cases to confirm correct behavior.
Act as one of the primary day-to-day contacts for Workday, proactively engaging with user inquiries, providing excellent customer service.
Uphold best practices for People Systems’ ticket management within Jira, ensuring efficient triage & resolution of assigned tickets, adhering to SOX procedures.
Train HR and business users, including developing training materials, user procedures, guidelines, and documentation.
Maintain awareness of current trends in Workday and best practices.
Minimum Requirements: You have a Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, HR, or Business, or equivalent work experience.
You have 5+ years of successful Workday / HRIS experience as a functional/technical liaison, including a role in a functional area of end-to-end HRIS implementation.
You have strong working knowledge of Workday HCM functionality, configuration, and reporting.
You have strong technical aptitude and experience with report writing and data analysis.
You have the ability to work independently, managing multiple tasks, priorities, and deadlines, as well as take initiative, follow through on assignments, and accomplish goals.
Preferred Capabilities: You are great at diagnosing problems, using your critical thinking skills to devise innovative solutions.
You are a strong communicator (written and spoken) and are able to effectively collaborate with a wide range of people.
You have strong analytical skills with a demonstrated understanding of the concepts and issues unique to the management of HR data.
You’re capable of maintaining strict confidentiality and exercising discretion with sensitive data.
You thrive in a high-growth/fast-paced environment.
You have solid knowledge of human resources, with expertise in several functional areas (such as Recruiting, Compensation, Benefits, Talent Management, etc.
).
You have a strong passion and drive for Ginkgo’s mission.
Total compensation for this role is market driven, with a starting salary of $minimum of range 88k+, as well as company stock awards.
Base pay is ultimately determined based on a candidate's skills, expertise, and experience.
We also offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental & vision coverage, health spending accounts, voluntary benefits, leave of absence policies, Employee Assistance Program, 401(k) program with employer contribution, 8 paid holidays in addition to a full-week winter shutdown and unlimited Paid Time Off policy.
To learn more about Ginkgo, visit www.
ginkgobioworks.
com/press/ or check out some curated press below: What is it really like to take your company public via a SPAC? One Boston biotech shares its journey (Fortune) Ginkgo Bioworks resizes the definition of going big in biotech, raising $2.
5B in a record SPAC deal that weighs in with a whopping $15B-plus valuation (Endpoints News) Ginkgo Bioworks CEO on scaling up Covid-19 testing: ‘If we try, we can win’ (CNBC) Ginkgo raises $70 million to ramp up COVID-19 testing for employers, universities (Boston Globe) Ginkgo Bioworks Redirects Its Biotech Platform to Coronavirus (Wall Street Journal) Ginkgo Bioworks Provides Support on Process Optimization to Moderna for COVID-19 Response (PRNewswire) The Life Factory: Synthetic Organisms From This $1.
4 Billion Startup Will Revolutionize Manufacturing (Forbes) Synthetic Bio Pioneer Ginkgo Raises $290 Million in New Funding (Bloomberg) Ginkgo Bioworks raises $350 million fund for biotech spinouts (Reuters) Can This Company Convince You to Love GMOs? (The Atlantic) We also feel that it’s important to point out the obvious here – there’s a serious lack of diversity in our industry, and that needs to change.
Our goal is to help drive that change.
Ginkgo is deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in all of its practices, especially when it comes to growing our team.
Our culture promotes inclusion and embraces how rewarding it is to work with people from all walks of life.
We’re developing a powerful biological engineering platform, so we must remain mindful of the many ways our technology can – and will – impact people around the world.
We care about how our platform is used, and having a diverse team to build it gives us the best chance that it’s something we’ll be proud of as it continues to grow.
Therefore, it’s critical that we incorporate the diverse voices and visions of all those who play a role in the future of biology.
It is the policy of Ginkgo Bioworks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees, employment applicants, and EOE disability/vet.
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