Sr. Systems Analyst – Workday Time & Absence Implementation Lead

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

The selected candidate will become part of Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Corporate IT function on the Human Resources Technology Services (HRTS) team supporting Human Capital Management (HCM) Systems, specifically in the functional domain of Absence Management and hourly Time Tracking. This role will have a strong impact on Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), divestitures, enterprise HR and Payroll technology initiatives, and other project-driven activities, with functional expertise in Absence Management, Time Tracking, and related payroll processes. The Sr. Systems Analyst will play a key role in planning and delivering HR technology solutions associated with acquisitions, integrations, divestitures, organizational transformations, and strategic HCM and payroll initiatives. The individual will partner closely with HR, Payroll, IT, business stakeholders, project/program managers, acquired or divested businesses, and external implementation partners to assess requirements, identify gaps, define solutions, and successfully transition organizations and employee populations into Thermo Fisher’s existing Workday environment. The successful candidate will showcase experiences including effective project management practices, HR systems module expertise and configuration ownership, working collaboratively with various functions and cross functional teams globally while delivering cost-effective implementation exceeding stakeholder expectations. This role offers the opportunity to advance technological solutions while supporting our mission of enabling customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Reporting to the Workday Architects Manager and dotted line reporting into the Workday Time & Absence Architect, serve as a functional technology lead for M&A integrations, divestitures, and strategic HR technology projects, with primary responsibility for Absence Management, Time Tracking, and related payroll processes.
• Participate in discovery and assessment activities to understand acquired company HR processes, policies, systems, employee populations, time and absence practices, payroll dependencies, and regulatory requirements.
• Perform fit-gap and impact assessments comparing acquired business requirements against Thermo Fisher Scientific's existing configurations, and technology guidelines and standards.
• Design and configure Workday Absence Management solutions, including time-off plans, leave types, accruals, eligibility rules, business processes, and workflows.
• Design and configure Workday Time Tracking solutions, including eligibility rules, workflows, overtime rules, differentials, time calculations, and related payroll earnings.
• Work collaboratively across global, cross-functional project teams, including HR, Payroll, IT, Finance, Legal/Compliance, project management, acquired businesses, and external consultants.
• Manage functional workstreams and deliverables across multiple concurrent projects while maintaining alignment with overall program milestones and dependencies.
• Analyse existing processes and configurations to determine whether new business requirements can be accommodated through existing global standards or require project-specific solutions.
• Prototype/review system functionality with customers and identify gaps
• Collaborate with integration and payroll teams on interfaces with third party payroll systems, ensuring appropriate handling of time, absence, employee, and payroll-related data.
• Support the development of comprehensive test strategies, scenarios, test cases, and expected results for M&A and enterprise project implementations.
• Support deployment readiness and cutover planning, including configuration migration, data validation, integration readiness, business readiness, and go-live activities.
• Provide functional leadership during post-go-live stabilization/hypercare, ensuring project issues are resolved and solutions are successfully transitioned to operational support teams.

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, you must minimally meet the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed below:

• Minimum of 5+ years of Tier 1 Human Capital Management (HCM) system(s) and developing and configuring HR applications such as Personnel Administration, Organization Management, Compensation Management, Absence Management, Time Management and other HR capabilities (Performance Management, Benefits, Learning Management)
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent experience required
• Experience participating in or leading M&A integrations, divestitures, HR technology implementations, enterprise transformations, or other complex cross-functional projects is strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of Workday HCM system and its Absence Management, Compensation and Time Tracking modules is preferred, but candidates with equivalent HCM system knowledge and experience in these functional areas will be considered
• Demonstrated experience with project lifecycle activities, including discovery, requirements analysis, solution design, configuration, testing, deployment, cutover, stabilization, and transition to support.
• Strong functional knowledge of Absence Management and Time Tracking processes, including cross-stream impacts.
• Experience assessing the impact of organizational changes, acquisitions, employee migrations, system implementations, and policy changes across interconnected HR technology platforms.
• Knowledge of HCM application security and its interdependencies in other areas of the system
• Team-oriented individual who demonstrates initiative and leadership skills; able to work independently in a dynamic, global environment
• Excellent analytical skills, problem solving abilities, and the ability to quickly learn new areas
• Communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing; able to communicate ideas in both technical and user-friendly language
• Dedication to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers
• Highly self-motivated and directed; ability to multitask and prioritize work
• Logical and efficient; keen attention to detail; high energy/sense of urgency
• Ability to conduct research into systems issues and products as required
• Knowledge of systems development cycles and methodologies