Business Analyst, Workday Recruiting Transformation
We have partnered with our client in their search for a Business Analyst, Workday Recruiting Transformation to lead end-to-end discovery and solution design for a Workday-enabled offer-letter automation initiative. This role will define a scalable global solution that supports regional differences in employment requirements, languages, templates, workflows, controls, and approvals.
This is a business analysis and solution-design role, not a hands-on Workday configuration or development position.
Location
New York, NY Hybrid
Responsibilities
- Assess current offer-management and offer-letter processes across Talent Acquisition.
- Map process variations across the United States, EMEA, APAC, and other global markets.
- Lead discovery sessions with Professional Recruiting, Campus Recruiting, Offer Management, HR operations, and regional recruiting teams.
- Document business, functional, technical, data, control, and non-functional requirements.
- Perform process, technology, and capability gap analyses.
- Identify dependencies across HR, Legal, Finance, Payroll, Risk, Compliance, Information Security, and Technology.
- Design the future-state process, solution requirements, governance model, controls, exception handling, and implementation roadmap.
- Develop requirements catalogues, process maps, user stories, acceptance criteria, integration requirements, decision logs, and traceability matrices.
- Track and communicate actions, risks, issues, dependencies, and key decisions.
- Lead governance meetings and provide executive-level updates on progress, milestones, risks, decisions, and next steps.
- Deliver an agreed, build-ready solution definition that enables automated offer-letter generation within Workday and can scale across global markets.
Required Qualifications
- Proven experience as a Business Analyst or HR transformation consultant within financial services or another complex, global, highly regulated organization.
- Strong knowledge of Workday Recruiting and offer-management processes.
- Experience leading requirements discovery, process mapping, gap analysis, and future-state solution design.
- Experience developing user stories, acceptance criteria, process documentation, and build-ready solution requirements.
- Background designing HR technology workflows, integrations, controls, and document-automation solutions.
- Ability to identify and manage dependencies across HR, Legal, Finance, Payroll, Risk, Compliance, Information Security, and Technology.
- Experience working across countries, regulatory environments, and diverse stakeholder groups.
- Understanding of global workforce compliance, payroll, and HR operating-model dependencies.
- Ability to design scalable solutions that accommodate regional legal, language, process, and approval differences.
- Strong senior-stakeholder facilitation, governance, and executive communication skills.
- Ability to challenge constructively, resolve ambiguity, and drive timely decisions.
- Strong documentation, status reporting, and management of actions, risks, issues, and dependencies.
- Ability to work a hybrid schedule in New York.
About Korn Ferry
Korn Ferry unleashes potential in people, teams, and organizations. We work with our clients to design optimal organization structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people and advise them on how to reward and motivate their workforce while developing professionals as they navigate and advance their careers. To learn more, please visit Korn Ferry at www.Kornferry.com
