Workday Time & Absence, Senior Product Manager
Gilead Sciences
6 months ago
Remote friendly (Raleigh, NC)
United States
IT
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the Workday Time Tracking and Absence SME, owning configuration, maintenance, and optimization of: time entry templates/time types/time blocks/eligibility rules; absence plans/accruals/carryover rules/balance caps/validations; work schedules/calendars/period schedules/approval workflows.
- Partner with HR, Payroll, IT, and regional stakeholders to translate business and policy requirements into scalable Workday solutions.
- Lead end-to-end delivery of Time & Absence initiatives (requirements, design, configuration, testing, deployment, hyper-care).
- Design, build, and maintain Workday Time & Absence reports and dashboards.
- Configure and maintain Business Processes, condition rules, notifications, and security for time/absence transactions.
- Ensure integration with Payroll, downstream calculations, and reporting.
- Troubleshoot complex issues involving time entry, absence requests, approvals, balances, and payroll impacts.
- Support global/regional rollouts, new country deployments, and regulatory/policy changes affecting time/absence.
- Execute and support unit/integration/regression testing and bi-annual Workday releases.
- Identify opportunities for process simplification, automation, and self-service improvements.
- Review Workday release notes, assess impacts, and recommend adoption of new features.
- Maintain configuration documentation and audit-ready change control artifacts.
- Ensure compliance with labor regulations/internal controls/SOX-relevant processes (as applicable).
- Stay current with Workday updates; develop job aids/support materials and share knowledge.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years relevant experience; OR Master’s degree and 6+ years; OR PhD and 2+ years.
Preferred Qualifications
- Degree in Information Systems/Business/related field (or equivalent experience).
- 8+ years hands-on Workday HRIS experience with deep Time Tracking and Absence Management.
- Proven experience configuring complex Time & Absence rules, accruals, eligibility, approvals, and Payroll integrations.
- Experience with global/multi-country Workday environments and country-specific time/leave requirements.
- Strong knowledge of Workday Business Process Framework, security roles, calculated fields, validations, and reporting.
- Experience leading/supporting full lifecycle implementations or major enhancements for Time & Absence.
- Strong communication, stakeholder partnership, analytical, troubleshooting, and documentation skills.
People Leader Accountabilities
- Create Inclusion; Develop Talent; Empower Teams.
Benefits (explicitly stated)
- May include discretionary annual bonus, discretionary stock-based long-term incentives, paid time off, and company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans.
Application Instructions
- For current Gilead employees and contractors: apply via the Internal Career Opportunities portal in Workday.
- Serve as the Workday Time Tracking and Absence SME, owning configuration, maintenance, and optimization of: time entry templates/time types/time blocks/eligibility rules; absence plans/accruals/carryover rules/balance caps/validations; work schedules/calendars/period schedules/approval workflows.
- Partner with HR, Payroll, IT, and regional stakeholders to translate business and policy requirements into scalable Workday solutions.
- Lead end-to-end delivery of Time & Absence initiatives (requirements, design, configuration, testing, deployment, hyper-care).
- Design, build, and maintain Workday Time & Absence reports and dashboards.
- Configure and maintain Business Processes, condition rules, notifications, and security for time/absence transactions.
- Ensure integration with Payroll, downstream calculations, and reporting.
- Troubleshoot complex issues involving time entry, absence requests, approvals, balances, and payroll impacts.
- Support global/regional rollouts, new country deployments, and regulatory/policy changes affecting time/absence.
- Execute and support unit/integration/regression testing and bi-annual Workday releases.
- Identify opportunities for process simplification, automation, and self-service improvements.
- Review Workday release notes, assess impacts, and recommend adoption of new features.
- Maintain configuration documentation and audit-ready change control artifacts.
- Ensure compliance with labor regulations/internal controls/SOX-relevant processes (as applicable).
- Stay current with Workday updates; develop job aids/support materials and share knowledge.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years relevant experience; OR Master’s degree and 6+ years; OR PhD and 2+ years.
Preferred Qualifications
- Degree in Information Systems/Business/related field (or equivalent experience).
- 8+ years hands-on Workday HRIS experience with deep Time Tracking and Absence Management.
- Proven experience configuring complex Time & Absence rules, accruals, eligibility, approvals, and Payroll integrations.
- Experience with global/multi-country Workday environments and country-specific time/leave requirements.
- Strong knowledge of Workday Business Process Framework, security roles, calculated fields, validations, and reporting.
- Experience leading/supporting full lifecycle implementations or major enhancements for Time & Absence.
- Strong communication, stakeholder partnership, analytical, troubleshooting, and documentation skills.
People Leader Accountabilities
- Create Inclusion; Develop Talent; Empower Teams.
Benefits (explicitly stated)
- May include discretionary annual bonus, discretionary stock-based long-term incentives, paid time off, and company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans.
Application Instructions
- For current Gilead employees and contractors: apply via the Internal Career Opportunities portal in Workday.