Senior HRIS Analyst - Talent, Performance and Development

Senior HRIS Analyst - Talent, Performance & Development Senior HRIS Analyst - Talent, Performance & Development Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress. Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering—for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support. Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know: Why Syneos Health • We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program. • We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life. • We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress. Job Responsibilities Why Join Our Workday Team This is a unique opportunity to help build and shape a growing Workday enviroment from the ground up.We are a new and evolving Workday organization, and this role will play a critical part in defining how Workday is used, governed, and scaled across the business. Rather than inheriting years of legacy design, you’ll have the chance to establish best practices, influence strategy, and build a high-performing Workday team alongside engaged HR and IT partners. If you’re excited by ownership, problem-solving, and building something that matters, this is a chance to make a lasting impact and grow your career as our Workday footprint continues to expand. Job Summary Responsible for the full range of HRIS project life cycle including discovery, design, development, testing and support. Functioning as the Subject Matter Expert for the Company’s HRIS and HRSD systems, this position is expected to drive innovation to enhance the user experience, support HR process and technology efforts, and deliver value to our employee base. Core Responsibilities • Acts as the primary support for the Workday Talent & Performance module, managing configuration, driving enhancements, and ensuring ongoing optimization of system functionality. • Provides global support for all HRIS applications. • Initiates, leads, and implements HRIS projects of medium to large scope and impact to assigned HR function(s). Collaborates with other departments to proactively identify needs for enhancements/modifications, document business requirements, and creates project plans for the implementation of enhancements and solutions. Supports modifications and serves as a change agent to assist in promoting new designs. • Identifies areas for improvement in both the processes and systems; continuously researches new system functionality/trends and HR best practices. • Develops, documents, and implements global procedures that provide consistent processes; creates user guides and checklists for functional practitioners. • Participates in the testing and implementation of all system upgrades and rollouts of new features; coordinates all user testing and parallel run activities. • Trains practitioners, managers, and employees on HRIS functionality. • Participates in project management activities, including work planning and issue tracking. • Monitors interactions/interfaces with both internal and outsourced systems; addresses error logs. • Provides technical support for interface integrations between HRIS applications and various third- party applications. Provides hands-on functional, reporting, and technical expertise to users; Serves as help desk for HRIS requests. • Raises Service Requests via vendor support organizations to obtain solutions to application problems. • Manages HR data requests; Assembles, analyzes, and formats data into useable reports. • Develops data integrity protocols for all HRIS applications; Audits HR data to ensure compliance and data integrity; Detects, troubleshoots, and resolves data issues; Supports efforts to maintain accurate master data. • Defines and enforces standard HRIS functionality to be delivered across the organization; Manages change control for deviations; Advises business functions on design and utilization ofexisting applications. • Assists with other HR projects, both within HRIS and in the various HR functional areas. • Serves as partner to all HR functional areas and liaises with other business functions. Qualifications Education Requirements Min/Preferred Education Level Description Additional Qualifications • BA/BS degree in Business, Human Resources, or Information Technology; Advanced degree preferred. • Minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in Human Resources, working with HRIS, web-based applicant tracking systems, enterprise reporting platforms, and/or related systems, with demonstrated leadership skills required. Experience with Workday Talent & Performance module preferred. • Detailed understanding of integration strategy; practice in the development and day-to-day support of vendor interfaces. • Previous participation in a multi-site HRIS conversion/implementation; Experience in all phases of the software development life cycle - requirements gathering, designing, building, testing, training, go-live and postproduction support. • Excellent analytical skills. Ability to collect and analyze data and present findings. • Ability to be flexible, adapt to change and work on multiple projects simultaneously and independently, resolve project issues, meet deadlines, and escalate issues as appropriate to management, strong project management skills. • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail. • Strong customer service orientation and ability to maintain a professional, friendly demeanor. • Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills. • Ability to independently learn new tasks quickly. • Interest in building technical aptitude. • Excellent judgment is required to handle sensitive and confidential information. • Ability to work well with others, build and maintain productive internal and external relationships. • Willingness to help on all projects regardless of complexity or functional area of task. • Ability to effectively present both technical and functional information and respond to questions. • Proficient in Microsoft Office products; including advanced data functions in Excel. Disclaimer Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job. Get to know Syneos Health Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients. No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health. http://www.syneoshealth.com Additional Information Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job. Experience Level Senior Level