Onsite Workday Security Administrator

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About the role

  • 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.
  • Workday Security Certifications are a plus.

Benefits

  • Flexibility in your schedule
  • Competitive benefits and compensation package

Job title

Workday Security Administrator

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$120,000 - $205,200 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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