# P4 Enterprise Applications Analyst

**Company**: Workday
**Location**: Pleasanton, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $144,000 USD - $216,000 USD
**Category**: Human Resources
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a P4 Enterprise Applications Analyst to join our Payroll, Absence and Time Tracking scrum team.

As a P4 Enterprise Applications Analyst, you will go beyond day-to-day support to help shape the solution design and product direction for the team.

Key Responsibilities:

- Analyze functional business problems and provide guidance on defining product outcomes for the Payroll, Absence and Time Tracking product suite

- Provide technical expertise in identifying, evaluating, and developing systems and procedures that best meet business partner requirements

- Lead discovery and design sessions with business partners and other stakeholders; identify upstream/downstream impacts, dependencies, and project risks

- Configure Workday Payroll system settings and options , including AI-assisted configuration as Illuminate capabilities roll out , and plan and execute unit testing, advising teams performing integration and acceptance testing

- Evaluate, configure, and drive internal adoption of Workday Illuminate agents (e.g., Payroll Agent, absence/frontline automation) as they roll out

- Identify opportunities to apply AI/agentic automation to reduce manual payroll and absence processing, anomaly detection, and compliance checks

- Drive planning, prioritization, and deployment of projects and system enhancements across the scrum team

- Leverage business knowledge to proactively identify process improvement opportunities

- Participate in change management and go-live support processes

- Partner with the integration team on configuring and testing integrations between Workday and benefit providers, payroll systems, and other 3rd party/custom solutions

Basic Qualifications:

- 5+ years of professional experience in business consulting, IT implementation, or customer support implementing Workday

- 5+ years of experience with the Workday enterprise platform

- Heavy Workday Configuration experience in Payroll (must have)

- Excellent functional knowledge of Payroll, in a global setting (US, Canada, and International payroll process and policy)

- Understanding of Workday integration technologies

- Familiarity with or strong interest in AI-driven automation/agentic capabilities within enterprise systems

Other Qualifications (Desired):

- Workday Configuration experience in Absence Management (desired)

- Workday Configuration experience in Time Tracking (desired)

- Experience and/or interest/curiosity in applying generative AI or agentic tools to HR/payroll/time-tracking processes (e.g., prompt-based configuration, AI copilots for testing/documentation)

- Working familiarity with generative AI tools such as Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, and Microsoft Copilot for productivity, documentation, and business analysis

- Exceptional analytical reasoning and problem-solving capabilities; demonstrated ability to think creatively and strategically to solve key business problems

- Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills, with a professional demeanor across all levels of management, colleagues, and vendors

- Ability to adapt to changes in project plans, with flexibility to implement new strategies and tactics

- Experience working with agile/scrum methodologies

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Primary Location: USA.CA.Pleasanton Primary Location Base Pay Range: $144,000 USD - $216,000 USD Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $121,600 USD - $216,000 USD

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## Skills

### Required
- Workday Configuration
- Payroll
- Workday enterprise platform
- AI-driven automation
- Workday integration technologies

### Nice to have
- Absence Management
- Time Tracking
- Generative AI
- Agentic tools
- Google Gemini
- Anthropic Claude
- Microsoft Copilot

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