The Workday Systems Administrator will oversee the implementation and administration of Workday, ensuring integrations, security, and post-go-live support, collaborating with HR and Finance.
When you join Accurate Background, you’re an integral part of making every hire the start of a success story. Your contributions will help us fulfill our mission of advancing the background screening experience through visibility and insights, empowering our clients to make smarter, unbiased decisions.
We are seeking a Workday Systems Administrator to support the implementation and long-term success of Workday as our enterprise HCM platform. This is a foundational hire on the Business Applications team, focused on the technical administration, integrations, and security of Workday, and will play a key role in our initial implementation.
You will partner closely with HR, Finance, and an external Workday implementation partner to migrate from legacy HR systems, own the design and delivery of integrations, and establish scalable, well-governed technical operations post go-live.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary IT liaison for Workday during the implementation, ensuring strong alignment between the implementation partner, internal stakeholders, and enterprise architecture.
- Lead integration design, development, and testing, connecting Workday to systems such as payroll, identity management, benefits providers, NetSuite, and ATS.
- Own Workday tenant strategy and release readiness, including managing sandbox refreshes, validating updates, and ensuring technical readiness for new features.
- Configure and administer Workday security (roles, domains, policies) in alignment with IT controls and audit requirements.
- Collaborate with HR and implementation partners to ensure clean data migration from legacy systems and support validation testing.
- Support system cutover and go-live readiness, including issue resolution, integration monitoring, and performance testing.
- Establish post-go-live technical support processes, including incident response, documentation, and change control for integrations and system-level updates.
- Partner in Workday governance and intake processes, aligning with HR (who owns configuration and process design) and Finance for shared system ownership.
Qualifications
- 3+ years of Workday experience in an IT systems or technical admin capacity; experience supporting or implementing Workday a strong plus.
- Proficiency with Workday integration tools: Core Connectors, Enterprise Interface Builder (EIBs), REST/SOAP APIs.
- Familiarity with tenant management, release coordination, and Workday security administration.
- Strong project management and collaboration skills, especially in cross-functional implementation projects.
- Experience with data migration, validation, and working alongside third-party implementation teams.
- Knowledge of SSO and enterprise-level identity/access management practices.
Preferred Qualifications
- Direct experience in a Workday implementation, either as a core team member or technical SME.
- Workday Pro certification in Integration, Security, or Reporting.
- Experience working in environments with NetSuite, Lever, or payroll/benefits integrations.
- Familiarity with Agile or hybrid implementation models using tools like Jira and Confluence.
Reporting Structure
- This role reports to the Senior Manager, Business Applications (IT) and partners closely with HR, Finance, and Implementation Consulting teams.
The Accurate Way:
We offer a fun, fast-paced environment, with lots of room for growth. We have an unwavering commitment to diversity, ensuring everyone has a complete sense of belonging here. To do this, we follow four guiding principles – Take Ownership, Be Open, Stay Curious, Work as One – core values that dictate what we stand for, and how we behave.
Take ownership.
Be accountable for your actions, your team, and the company. Accept responsibility willingly, especially when it’s what’s best for our customers. Give others every reason to trust you, believe in you, and count on you. Rise to every occasion with your personal best.
Be open.
Be open to new ideas. Be inclusive of people and ways of doing things. Make yourself accessible and approachable, and communicate with genuineness, transparency, honesty, and respect. Embrace differences.
Stay curious.
Stay curious even as you move forward. Tirelessly ask questions and challenge the status quo in your pursuit of new ideas, ways to solve problems, and to continually grow and improve.
Work as one.
Work together to create the best customer and workplace experience. Put our customers and employees first—before individual or departmental agendas. Make sure they get the help they need to succeed.
About Accurate Background:
Accurate Background’s vision is to make every hire the start of a success story. As a trusted provider of employment background screening and workforce monitoring services, Accurate Background gives companies of all sizes the confidence to make smarter, unbiased hiring decisions at the speed of demand. Experience a new standard of support with a dedicated team, comprehensive technology and insight, and the most extensive coverage and search options to advance your business while keeping your brand and people safe.
Accurate is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to hiring talented and qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Accurate will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws.
Special Notice:
Accurate is aware of schemes involving fraudulent job postings/offers and/or individuals or entities claiming to be employees of Accurate. Those involved are offering fabricated employment opportunities to applicants, often asking for sensitive personal and financial information. If you believe you have been contacted by anyone misrepresenting themselves as an employee of Accurate, please contact [email protected].
- Please be advised that all legitimate correspondence from an Accurate employee will come from "@accurate.com" email accounts.
- Accurate will not interview candidates via text or email. Our interviews are conducted by recruiters and leaders via the phone, Zoom/Teams or in an in-person format.
- Accurate will never ask candidates to make any type of personal financial investment related to gaining employment with the Company.
Top Skills
Confluence
Core Connectors
Enterprise Interface Builder
JIRA
NetSuite
Rest Apis
Soap Apis
Workday
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