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At Academy Sports + Outdoors, our mission is to make it easier for everyone to enjoy more sports and outdoors. The Analyst HR Technology fulfills a key role in the continuous development, support and synchronization of our Workday-powered HR Technology platform. Acting as a key business partner to various functions within and external to HR, this role must leverage extensive systems knowledge to develop, design, configure and finalize technical requirements for improved HR business processes.

Job Description:

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in related field of study or equivalent years of related work experience required.

Work Experiences:

3+ years of demonstrated HR Systems (HCM / HRIS / HRIT) or 5+ years of functional experience required.
2+ years of development and/or configuration experience within Workday’s Human Capital Management system is strongly preferred.
Advanced Workday training (BIRT, Studio, Report Writer, Calculated Fields, etc.) is strongly preferred for this role.

Skills:

Strong working knowledge of HR technology and functional HR processes.
Demonstrated experience developing, documenting and configuring business processes, advanced calculated fields, and reporting in Workday is preferred.
Proven ability to develop detailed configuration specification documentation.
Strong technical aptitude; analytical with excellent problem-solving abilities and creative resolution skills.
Ability to prioritize, remain calm under pressure, pay attention to detail and make decisions independently based on fact-based data and analysis.
Excellent time-management skills, able to work on multiple projects and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Strong presentation and communication skills; comfort interacting across all management levels.
Customer service oriented; interpersonal with effective listening, speaking and writing skills.
Ability to work well and function autonomously as needed; work well with teams.
Self-motivated, with the ability to meet and exceed position requirements under minimal direction and supervision.
Proficient use of Microsoft Office programs required; advanced Excel skills including data validation, formulas, macros, and pivot tables preferred.
Utilize discretion and judgment to maintain confidentiality of sensitive data.

Responsibilities:

Collaborate in the ongoing design, configuration, deployment, and upgrades of the human capital management application, Workday; including, but not limited to, business process configuration, conditional logic-based rules and code based system configurations and validations.
Work in partnership with peers and business partners to ensure a consistent focus on production support, service requests, and roadmap initiatives to ensure a balanced delivery of service and solutions aligned with business objectives.
Design and implement process improvements to increase efficiencies and ensure reliability
Reviews system data on a regular basis to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and completeness; performs any necessary data clean up and sanitization.
Support system upgrades, enhancements, regression testing, validation, and overall performance; analyze software releases to assess impact of new features.
Create, validate, and execute of all test scenarios for recommended configuration changes and ensure that all business processes are fully tested to guarantee all business requirements have been met.
Understands, documents and communicates impact of configuration changes to all business processes across the platform and the system users.
Serve as the Workday subject matter expert to internal customers; Provides Tier 2 technical support for production support issues including, but not limited to, researching and resolving technical problems, unexpected results or process flaws; recommending solutions or alternate methods to meet requirements.
Development of advanced reports using Workday Report Writer and creation and maintenance of dashboards for ongoing customer needs.
Develop Workday calculated fields and condition rules.
Train new system end users as well as support development of user procedures, job aids, guidelines and documentation.
Create and process Workday EIBs to load data to support HCM, Payroll, Benefits, Compensation and other areas as needed.
Understands and supports existing integrations with external vendors and other internal departments and applications.
Maintain data integrity in systems by participating in developing processes to audit, analyze, resolve and prevent future issues.
Responsibilities may change; team member may be required to perform other duties as assigned.
Learns and follows company work hours, policies, procedures and rules governing professional staff behavior.

Physical Requirements & Attendance

Flexible and willing to work evenings and weekends as deemed necessary.
Acceptable level of hearing and vision to perform job duties.

Full time

Equal Employment Opportunity

Academy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate with regard to employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by law.