Lead Workday Product Analyst - Payroll (Lead Business Execution Consultant)
Wells Fargo
About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Workday Product Analyst in Payroll to join our Human Resources (HR) Product and Portfolio Management Team. As a Lead Workday Product Analyst and a member of the Payroll Product Scrum Team, you will plan and execute business configuration of software products (Workday). You will collaborate with internal and external subject matter experts, system users, and stakeholders to understand and document existing and proposed business processes and requirements. Additionally, you will execute configuration changes and acceptance testing and support readiness activities.
In this role, you will:
- Lead and facilitate workshops and discussions to effectively gather requirements and achieve a detailed understanding of client objectives and desired outcomes
- Drive requirements, incorporating product expertise and industry knowledge to discover and validate what has real value to the business
- Partner with client area to execute planning, conducting, and directing the analysis of highly complex business problems to be solved with automated systems (Workday)
- Manage multiple stakeholder groups including global business teams, risk management, compliance, legal, data privacy
- Perform system configuration and testing activities
- Assist in building out epics into effective user stories
- Maintain task status in JIRA or similar Agile management tool
- Work with user groups to resolve questions, assess user needs, and recommend changes
- Ensure cross-functional dependencies are articulated, managed, and addressed in order to execute projects with quality and on-time
- Contribute to delivering solutions that are long-term, large scale, and require consideration of global market dynamics, trends, regulatory impact, and risk management
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience implementing and supporting Workday Payroll
- Experience implementing and supporting Workday functions including Talent Acquisition, Compensation or Talent Management
- Experience leading and facilitating workshops and discussions to meet client objectives and desired outcomes
- Experience with HR systems in a complex, regulated, global environment with multiple integrations
- Ability to operate as part of cross functional work streams in order to execute projects with quality and on-time
- Experience interpreting business and technical needs and translating them into user stories
- Experience working as part of Agile teams
- Project Management experience
- Experience with JIRA and Confluence
Job Expectations:
Ability to travel up to 5% of the time.
Position Location:
Minneapolis, Minnesota (MN) – 550 S. 4th Street
Must be based in the above location or willing to relocate at your own expense.
Relocation assistance is not available for this position.
This position currently offers a hybrid work schedule.
This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.
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Pay Range
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$96,600.00 - $171,800.00Benefits
Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.
- Health benefits
- 401(k) Plan
- Paid time off
- Disability benefits
- Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
- Parental leave
- Critical caregiving leave
- Discounts and savings
- Commuter benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Scholarships for dependent children
- Adoption reimbursement
Posting End Date:
23 Jun 2025*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
We Value Equal Opportunity
Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.
Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.
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