HRIS Workday Functional Analyst (Remote)

HRIS Workday Functional Analyst (Remote) Location Remote in Santa Ana, CA :

Who We Are

Join a team that puts its People First! Since 1889, First American (NYSE: FAF) has held an unwavering belief in its people. They are passionate about what they do, and we are equally passionate about fostering an environment where all feel welcome, supported, and empowered to be innovative and reach their full potential. Our inclusive, people-first culture has earned our company numerous accolades, including being named to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for eight consecutive years. We have also earned awards as a best place to work for women, diversity and LGBTQ+ employees, and have been included on more than 50 regional best places to work lists. First American will always strive to be a great place to work, for all. For more information, please visit

What We Do

How would you like to use your innovative skills to immediately improve business systems processes? If you like to influence and add immediate value to global, cross-functional teams, then this is the role for you!

Come experience what it is like working for one of Fortune's 100 Best Places to Work. At First American, we believe in People First and it shows in the passion and energy of our employees.

We are looking for a people oriented HRIS Workday Functional Analyst to join our team. If you love interacting with all levels of an organization, and you consider maximizing cloud-based solutions, and in-depth knowledge of Human Resources software to be some of your biggest strengths, then look no further.

The HRIS Workday Functional Analyst role at First American is the perfect career move for you if you have progressive human resources systems, process improvements and project management experience.

The HRIS Workday Functional Analyst supports the execution of system set up and workflows across modules within Workday. These roles will partner with HR domain subject matter experts, customers, IT partners, and third parties to better understand and document detailed business requirements. The HRIS Workday Functional Analyst will lead in business processes mapping to identify current gaps and opportunity for Workday automation and standard work; apply technical expertise to enable these functional processes within Workday; and will be responsible for ensuring that configuration of Workday system settings, integrations and options meet functional business objectives.

What You'll Do:

• Serve as a subject matter expert on Workday including design for business process configuration, security and administration related to one or more functional areas (e.g., HCM, Recruiting)
• Network across the different functional areas within HR and across the global team with the opportunity to provide input into new processes, procedures and training that will shape the way the team operates now and, in the future,
• Create short and long-term HR strategy alignment for recruiting
• Prepare test scripts; execute, conduct, and support user testing through rollout of new system functionality
• Provide application support such as incident triage, research application bugs, respond to customer escalations, scenario re-creation and document findings
• You will get to work on new Workday releases, including implementation and testing, for our global talent acquisition teams
• Partner with the Recruiting (SMEs) to test and implement new releases
• Provide technical support including system administration, configuration, and maintenance
• Additionally, partner with internal team members and vendors, to ensure the appropriate level of support is provided to end users
• Continuously interact with Workday Community to ensure you are aware of future enhancements and influence our internal technology roadmap

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 1-2 years functional HR experience
• Exposure to Workday configuration (e.g., EIBs, Cloud Connect, Report Writer, Calculated Fields);
• Experience with Workday Recruiting module highly preferred
• Knowledge of MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and MS Visio
• Experience in process improvement and ability to drive efforts to standardize, optimize and simplify processes and technical solutions
• Excellent analytical, organizational and problem- solving skills, including data analysis
• Strong organizational, interpersonal, communication and customers service skills with both technical and functional end- users

Pay Range: $63,540 - $112,960 Annual

This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements and geographic location.

What We Offer

By choice, we don't simply accept individuality - we embrace it, we support it, and we thrive on it! Our People First Culture celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion not simply because it's the right thing to do, but also because it's the key to our success. We are proud to foster an authentic and inclusive workplace For All. You are free and encouraged to bring your entire, unique self to work. First American is an equal opportunity employer in every sense of the term.

Based on eligibility, First American offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k, PTO/paid sick leave and other great benefits like an employee stock purchase plan.