Sr. Systems Analyst – Workday Time & Absence Implementation Lead / Project Manager

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

DESCRIPTION

The Workday Time & Absence Implementation Lead / Project Manager will be part of Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Human Resources Technology Services (HRTS) team, with dual responsibility for leading Workday Time Tracking and Absence project workstreams and serving as the hands-on functional and configuration lead.

With support from the Workday Time and Absence Architect and Program Leads, this role will lead Time Tracking and Absence implementations associated with M&A and payroll transformation initiatives from requirements and design through configuration, testing, deployment, and stabilization. The individual will directly configure Workday while managing project scope, schedule, risks, dependencies, resources, and deliverables.

The role will coordinate cross-functional teams, implementation partners, and consultants and partner with HR, Payroll, IT, Finance, Legal/Compliance, and business stakeholders. The successful candidate will combine strong Workday Time Tracking and Absence expertise with project management capabilities to deliver scalable solutions addressing complex business, payroll, policy, and regulatory requirements. This role offers the opportunity to advance technological solutions while supporting our mission of enabling customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Workday Time & Absence Solution Leadership and Configuration

• Serve as functional and configuration lead for Workday Time Tracking and Absence implementations, including M&A, divestitures, payroll transformations, and other HR technology initiatives.
• Lead discovery and requirements activities covering business processes, time and absence practices, policies, payroll dependencies, regulatory requirements, and technology.
• Perform fit-gap assessments against Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Workday configuration and global standards and translate requirements into scalable solutions.
• Design, configure, test, and deploy Workday Absence solutions, including time-off plans, leave types, accruals, eligibility rules, business processes, and workflows.
• Design, configure, test, and deploy Workday Time Tracking solutions, including eligibility, workflows, overtime rules, differentials, time calculations, and related payroll earnings.
• Prototype solutions with stakeholders, identify gaps, evaluate alternatives, and assess impacts across HCM, Payroll, Compensation, security, and integrations.
• Partner with integration and payroll teams on third-party payroll interfaces and time, absence, employee, and payroll data.
• Maintain required functional, configuration, design, and test documentation.
• Project and Workstream Leadership
• With support from Program/Project Leads and the Workday Time and Absence Architect, lead Time Tracking and Absence workstreams through planning, design, configuration, testing, deployment, cutover, and stabilization.