[Remote] HRIS Analyst
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Woolpert is an award-winning, global leader in architecture, engineering, and geospatial services. The HRIS Analyst supports day-to-day HR system processes for an international employee population, focusing on employee lifecycle transactions, onboarding processes, and system support.
Responsibilities
- Process employee lifecycle transactions in Dayforce for employees across multiple countries, including hires, job and compensation changes, organizational and manager updates, leaves of absence, and terminations
- Execute administrative processes to support accurate payroll, reporting, and downstream systems, ensuring completion in accordance with country-specific policies, established controls and timelines, payroll calendars, downstream system requirements, and team standards
- Monitor and review self‑service employee changes initiated by managers or administrators via system workflows, ensuring data updates are routed, reviewed, and completed accurately and consistently
- Own the technical execution of onboarding processes within Dayforce and connected systems, ensuring HR system tasks and data entries are completed accurately and on time by incoming employees, managers, and involved teams while accounting for country‑specific requirements and related downstream dependencies
- Act as the primary coordination point for onboarding‑related system activities, managing handoffs between Talent Acquisition, HR Technology, Payroll, and IT to ensure seamless system readiness
- Proactively monitor onboarding transactions, identifying issues and driving corrective actions
- Analyze inefficiencies and gaps, contributing recommendations to improve data quality, efficiency, and the overall employee onboarding experience
- Serve as the first point of contact for HR system requests, supporting a global workforce, including triaging, resolving, or routing inquiries while considering country‑specific data structures, processes, and support timelines
- Review, categorize, and route incoming tickets to the appropriate team member(s)
- Resolve routine system and data issues independently; escalate more complex configuration or technical issues as appropriate
- Identify recurring issues and trends, providing input on opportunities to reduce manual effort and improve efficiency
- Perform employee data maintenance and corrections for a global employee population, including historical updates required to support country‑specific payroll, reporting, compliance, and analytics needs
- Execute regular and ad‑hoc data audits and corrections to ensure data integrity across regions and downstream systems
- Perform routine data imports to support ongoing data integration and operational continuity across company systems
- Support mass data updates, data clean‑up efforts, integration validations, and reconciliation activities
- Maintain basic configuration elements (lists, values, fields, workflows) under guidance from senior team members
- Assist with testing during system updates, patches, and new feature releases
- Assist with role‑based access provisioning and periodic access reviews
- Support security, access, and data privacy requirements for a global workforce, including assistance with role‑based access controls, regional data access restrictions, and compliance with applicable local and international data protection standards
- Help maintain security-related documentation required for reference, audits, controls, and compliance reviews
- Develop and maintain clear, role‑specific process documentation and standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Adhere to established team standards while identifying opportunities for improved accuracy, efficiency, and standardization
- Assist with additional duties as assigned
Skills
- High school diploma or equivalent required
- 1 year of hands-on experience working in enterprise HR information systems, performing operational and technical system tasks required
- Working knowledge of enterprise HR systems and user workflows
- Foundational understanding of data concepts (tables, fields, relationships)
- Ability to execute basic data tasks (bulk imports using templates)
- Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills
- Strong attention to detail and data accuracy
- Solution-oriented mindset with solid problem-solving skills
- Openness to feedback and continuous learning
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across business functions and cultures
- Bachelor's degree in a related field preferred
- 3 years of hands-on experience working in international Dayforce environments from an operational and technical perspective preferred
- Experience working on global acquisition company integrations preferred
- Working knowledge of SQL
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
- Understanding of system configurations, workflows, and business rules within Dayforce
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