Advocate Health Care

Workday System Analyst - Onboarding

Advocate Health Care$73K — $110K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Information Technology, or related field.
  • 2-4 years of Workday or HRIS experience.
  • Experience in Workday configuration, including Business Process Framework and security.
  • Advanced reporting skills in Workday, with expertise in dashboards and data analysis.
  • Strong understanding of employee lifecycle processes and their relation to HR systems.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the main systems lead for the new hire experience, collaborating with various teams.
  • Configure and optimize Workday modules for HR processes.
  • Translate business requirements into effective system solutions with stakeholders.
  • Manage work priorities and deliverables across complex initiatives independently.
  • Support HR process design and solution recommendations that comply with governance standards.

Benefits

  • Paid Time Off programs for work-life balance
  • Comprehensive health and welfare benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Family support benefits such as paid parental leave and adoption assistance.
  • Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match for financial security.
  • Educational Assistance Program for career development opportunities.
Full Job Description
Department:

14218 Enterprise Corporate - People & Culture Digital Capabilities & Insights

Status:

Full time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hours Per Week:

40

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

Remote Role

Approved remote states: AL, AK, AR, AZ, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL (ONLY Midwest), IN, LA, KS, KY, ME, MI, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NM, NV, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WV, WY.

Pay Range:
$35.50 - $53.25

What You'll Do
  • Serve as the primary systems lead and subject matter expert for the new hire experience, partnering across Talent Acquisition, HR Shared Services, IT, and People & Culture teams to design, configure, optimize, and scale the end-to-end preboarding and onboarding journey from offer acceptance through Day 30.
  • Configure, maintain, and optimize assigned Workday modules to support end-to-end HR processes.
  • Partner with HR, IT, and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into system solutions.
  • Lead moderately complex initiatives and independently manage assigned work, priorities, and deliverables.
  • Support Workday configurations across areas such as Business Process Framework, security, eligibility rules, notifications, reporting, and dashboards.
  • Build and maintain advanced Workday reports, including calculated fields, dashboards, and data analysis.
  • Support process design and recommend scalable solutions that align with enterprise governance and best practices.
  • Lead end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional system solutions in partnership with HR and IT.
  • Ensure solutions adhere to architectural, security, privacy, compliance, and governance standards for sustainability and scalability.
  • Participate in release management, testing, data audits, and ongoing system maintenance.
  • Evaluate digital and AI-enabled solutions by assessing readiness, data integrity, integration capability, and operational viability.
  • Help improve teammate and manager experiences by designing simple, clear, and consistent HR system interactions.
  • Apply strong knowledge of employee lifecycle processes, including hire, movement, compensation, absence, and separation.
  • Support workforce data accuracy, consistency, and governance to enable reporting, compliance, and decision-making.
  • Independently explore, evaluate, and apply digital capabilities across varied domains and systems.
What You'll Bring
  • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Information Technology, or a related field.
  • 2-4 years of Workday or HRIS experience.
  • Workday configuration experience across modules, including Business Process Framework, security, eligibility rules, and notifications.
  • Advanced Workday reporting knowledge, including calculated fields, dashboards, and data analysis.
  • Foundational knowledge of integrations, EIBs, and data audits, with awareness of broader system impacts.
  • Understanding of release management, testing standards, and system governance best practices.
  • Ability to translate stakeholder needs into system designs while helping HR partners understand trade-offs, constraints, and implications.
  • Strong understanding of employee lifecycle processes and how they connect to HR systems.
  • Ability to balance system capability, people experience, operational feasibility, and enterprise standards.
  • Strong attention to detail, problem-solving skills, and commitment to data accuracy, confidentiality, and data governance.
  • Awareness of emerging technologies and how they can support HR systems, workforce operations, AI adoption, and enterprise scalability.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and relationship-building skills with the ability to partner effectively across HR, IT, and business teams.
Preferred
  • Workday Pro Certification or progress toward certification.
  • Experience supporting Workday solutions in a large, complex, matrixed organization.
  • Experience supporting onboarding, preboarding, talent acquisition, or employee lifecycle processes within Workday.
  • Experience partnering cross-functionally with HR, IT, business leaders, and operational teams.
  • Familiarity with digital transformation, automation, AI-enabled tools, or workforce technology optimization.
  • Experience supporting workforce data governance, HR reporting, and enterprise-wide system improvements.


DISCLAIMER

All responsibilities and requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only responsibilities to be performed by an employee occupying this job or position. Employees must follow any other job-related instructions and perform any other job-related duties requested by their leaders.

Our Commitment to You:

Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more - so you can live fully at and away from work, including:

Compensation
  • Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
  • Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
  • Incentive pay for select positions
  • Opportunity for annual increases based on performance


Benefits and more
  • Paid Time Off programs
  • Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
  • Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
  • Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
  • Educational Assistance Program


Note: Eligibility for programs listed above may depend on your FTE or status (e.g., full-time, part-time, per diem, temporary, etc.); please ask a Recruiter for more information during an interview.

About Advocate Health Care

Advocate Health Care is a not-for-profit, faith-based health system providing comprehensive health care services to the people of Illinois. The organization is the largest fully integrated health care delivery system in Illinois, with more than 500 sites of care and 12 hospitals, including two of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals, the state’s largest integrated children’s network, five Level I trauma centers (the state’s highest designation in trauma care), three Level II trauma centers, one of the area’s largest home health and hospice companies and one of the region’s largest medical groups. Advocate Health Care trains more primary care physicians and residents at its four teaching hospitals than any other health system in the state. As a not-for-profit, mission-based health system affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ, Advocate contributed $1.6 billion in charitable care and services to communities across Chicagoland and Central Illinois in 2019.
Learn more about Advocate Health Care
Size
75,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1976

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