Workday Security Administrator at RSM ensuring secure access across HCM modules and SOX compliance. Leading security design, audits, and stakeholder collaboration with a focus on risk management.
Responsibilities
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.
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