Workday Security Administrator
RSM US LLP
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $120,000 - $205,200 per year
About the role
- Serve as the primary Workday Security subject‐matter expert, responsible for end‐to‐end security design across all HCM modules, reporting, and integrations.
- Own and execute Workday security controls related to SOX and internal/external audits, including access reviews, evidence preparation, remediation of findings, and ongoing control optimization.
- Initiate and lead conversations with stakeholders, HR partners, Risk, Compliance, and Technology teams to understand access needs, build trust, and deliver secure, compliant solutions in complex and cross‐functional environments.
- Design, implement, and maintain role‐based and domain security, ensuring appropriate segregation of duties, data privacy, and alignment with compliance and audit requirements.
- Partner closely with Risk, Compliance, and Internal Audit teams to ensure security configurations meet organizational policies, regulatory expectations, and audit standards.
- Provide expert analysis of security configuration, identifying gaps, risks, inefficiencies, or unintended access, and recommending mitigation strategies.
- Support Workday reporting and integration security, ensuring appropriate data access, secure data transmission, and compliance with internal control frameworks.
- Successfully prioritize and manage security‐related work across large initiatives, ongoing enhancements, defects, audit activities, and access requests, aligned with overall HR and technology strategy.
- Develop and maintain clear documentation for security designs, SOX controls, audit evidence, standards, and decision rationale.
- Proactively monitor upcoming Workday releases and evaluate new security functionality to identify opportunities to strengthen controls, improve audit outcomes, and increase efficiency.
- Act as a trusted advisor by anticipating security and compliance risks before they emerge and translating complex security concepts into clear, actionable guidance for stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Demonstrates deep expertise and a proven record of success in Workday Security, including HCM (Compensation, Payroll, Time Off and Absence, Benefits, etc.), reporting, and integration security.
- Extensive experience designing and maintaining role‐based security models within Workday, with a strong understanding of domain, business process, and reporting security.
- Proven experience supporting SOX controls, internal audits, and external audits, including evidence collection, access reviews, and remediation activities.
- Ability to translate business and functional requirements into secure technical solutions, and to clearly communicate security and compliance impacts to both technical and non‐technical audiences.
- Strong experience performing root‐cause analysis on security and access issues, with an understanding of cross‐stream and downstream impacts.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently as an individual contributor at the Manager level, managing complex priorities and accountability without people management responsibility.
- Effective communication skills to articulate security strategy, risk, and compliance requirements, and to build trust with stakeholders.
- Workday Security Certifications are a plus.
Benefits
- Flexibility in your schedule
- Competitive benefits and compensation package
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Workday SecurityHCMrole-based security modelssecurity configurationSOX controlsinternal auditsexternal auditsroot-cause analysisdata privacysecure technical solutions
Soft Skills
effective communicationstakeholder managementtrust buildingindependent workcomplex priority managementrisk anticipationclear guidanceproblem-solvingcollaborationanalytical thinking
Certifications
Workday Security Certifications