Job Title: Senior HRIS Analyst
Location: Hybrid – minimum 3 days per week in Dublin office
Contract Type: 8 to 10 month Project Assignment
Daily Rate: €400-450 per day
Summary:
GI Group is recruiting a Senior HRIS Analyst to join the Company’s global HRIS team. This is a hands-on Workday role: you’ll provide technical support, maintain configuration and security, own change control, and partner with Compensation, Talent Acquisition and HR Business stakeholders to deliver reliable HCM capabilities and a world-class user experience.
Responsibilities:

• Provide day-to-day Workday support across HCM modules (Core HCM, Security, Business Processes, Compensation, Absence, Talent, Recruiting, Self Service, Reporting & Analytics).
• Lead configuration changes from requirement through deployment: gather requirements, design tenant configuration, update security groups, script test cases, perform unit/system testing and drive user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Implement change-control and impact-assessment processes to evaluate effects on business flows and integrations before deployment.
• Configure business process definitions, tenant-level settings and security roles; manage eligibility rules and plan relationships.
• Execute complex mass uploads and data corrections (EIBs/CSV uploads or equivalent), validate in sandbox, run pre/post validation and maintain audit logs.
• Troubleshoot workflow and integration issues: perform root cause analysis, remediate configuration errors, and liaise with integration teams to ensure correct data flows.
• Build and maintain custom reports and calculated fields; provide analytics to support HR decisions.
• Manage support tickets via ServiceNow and ensure SLAs are met.
• Identify training and change-management needs; create toolkits, job aids and user communications to lift adoption.
• Act as a subject-matter expert for new Workday functionality and continuous improvement initiatives.

Day-to-day / implementation approach (what success looks like)

• Translate stakeholder needs into clear design specs and configuration tasks.
• Configure in sandbox → run unit tests → execute integration tests → lead UAT with stakeholders → schedule controlled production deployment.
• Use traceable change-control documentation and impact matrices for each release.
• Perform mass-load dry-runs and reconciliation, resolving errors before production uploads.
• Maintain and tune security groups and business process guards to minimise overrides and exceptions.
• Log, prioritise and resolve incidents via ServiceNow; escalate when integrations or vendor fixes are required.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Information Systems, Business Administration or related field.
• 3+ years’ experience in HRIS/IT/HR environment with hands-on Workday configuration and administration.
• Strong understanding of Workday system design, business process configuration, security model and reporting.
• Experience with integrations and data flow (EIB/Core Connectors/Workday Studio experience advantageous).
• Proficient with Microsoft Office tools.
• Prior exposure to global organisations and multi-region HR processes.
• Experience using ServiceNow (or similar ITSM) for issue management.
• Ability to design, build and validate custom reports.

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Gi Group Holdings Recruitment Limited group of companies includes Gi Recruitment Limited, Draefern Limited, Gi Group Recruitment Ltd, INTOO (UK) Limited, Marks Sattin (UK) Limited, TACK TMI UK Limited, Grafton Professional Staffing Limited, Encore Personnel Services, Gi Group Ireland Limited and Kelly Services (UK) Ltd. Gi Group Ireland Limited are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this role.

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