People Systems Administrator, Workday

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. We're looking for a highly skilled People Systems Administrator to drive the design, configuration, and optimization of Workday across Vanta, with deep functional ownership of the Payroll, Benefits, and/or Absence module(s). Reporting to the Sr. Manager, People Systems, you'll act as a trusted consultant and system expert, partnering with functional leaders across People, Payroll, Finance, IT, and Legal to identify opportunities, implement advanced solutions, and improve the employee experience. You'll shape the future of our Workday ecosystem by leading complex configurations, driving process improvement, and making sure the system evolves ahead of the business rather than behind it. What you’ll do as a People Systems Administrator, Workday at Vanta: - Own the design and configuration of the Workday platform - Lead the design and implementation of configurations across Workday modules (Core HCM, Payroll, Benefits, Absence, Time Tracking) including business processes and security groups along with condition rules and calculated fields. - Serve as the primary technical expert for Workday enhancements, partnering with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate ambiguous business problems into scalable system solutions. - Build the administration frameworks and standards the team runs on: security role design, tenant and environment management, change control, testing protocols, and documentation. - Design reusable, scalable solutions rather than one-off fixes, so the same problem doesn't return in a different shape - Own change management for system changes. Plan and deliver stakeholder communications, training,

Department: People; Team: People Ops