What You'll DoAvalara is an AI-first company. We expect every engineer, manager, and leader to actively leverage AI to enhance productivity, quality, innovation, and customer value. AI is embedded in our workflows, decision-making, and products — and success at Avalara requires embracing AI as an essential capability, not an optional tool.Avalara is looking for an experienced Workday subject matter expert to oversee, improve, design, and scale Workday Benefits and Absence areas. We ask that you have a passion to enhance product quality and to deliver a seamless experience in Workday through mastery on functional configuration and team player skills.You will be part of our People Technology team and work with other internal business partners, and company management in the development and maintenance of Workday.People Technology is a diverse team made up of subject matter experts that own multiple enterprise platforms and brings automation and scale to our People & Culture, Finance and IT programs.You will report to the Senior Manager, People Technology.
What Your Responsibilities Will Be
- Must have 7+ years of experience with Workday**
You will
- Be responsible for global Benefits and Absence projects from business analysis to hands-on functional configuration ownership.
- Analyze complex business problems through effective documentation skills.
- Plan, execute and coordinate manual and automated testing with team members and business stakeholders.
- Mentor, influence and guide the workday experts and business team members through empathetic change management.
- Design and deploy plans and tweaks while ensuring reliability and scale through simplicity and speed.
What You’ll Need To Be Successful
- 7+ years of relevant professional experience supporting/implementing Workday Benefits and Absence areas.
- Understanding of the dependencies and downstream impacts across Workday modules and data feeds to other internal and external applications.
- Hands-on configuration experience of Workday Core HR, Benefits, Absence, Security and Business Processes.
- Create, deploy, and maintain Workday custom reports and dashboards for technology team.
- Ability to bring simplicity and speed to our programs.
Certifications
- Workday Pro Certifications.
- Expertise with Time Tracking.
How We’ll Take Care Of YouTotal RewardsIn addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.Health & WellnessBenefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.Inclusive culture and diversityAvalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship.
What You Need To Know About Avalara
We’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year, and this year we became a billion-dollar business
. Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down until we’ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world.We’re bright, innovative, and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we’ve designed, that empowers our people to win. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them.We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.
We’re An Equal Opportunity Employer
Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company — we don’t want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.
