SENIOR PROCESS IMPROVEMENT ANALYST

About EarnIn As one of the first pioneers of earned wage access, our passion at EarnIn is building products that deliver real-time financial flexibility for those with the unique needs of living paycheck to paycheck. Our community members access their earnings as they earn them, with options to spend, save, and grow their money without mandatory fees, interest rates, or credit checks.

We're fortunate to have an incredibly experienced leadership team, combined with world-class funding partners like A16Z, Matrix Partners, DST, Ribbit Capital, and a very healthy core business with a tremendous runway. We're growing fast and are excited to continue bringing world-class talent onboard to help shape the next chapter of our growth journey. POSITION SUMMARY

We are seeking a Senior HRIS Analyst to own and evolve our Workday platform, with a primary focus on Core HCM and Security. This role is responsible for designing, configuring, and optimizing scalable people systems that enable business growth and operational efficiency.

You will act as a strategic partner to People, Finance, and IT teams—translating business needs into system solutions while ensuring data integrity, security, and streamlined processes across the employee lifecycle.

We are in the midst of an exciting Intelligent Work Systems transformation, evolving from manual operations to designing AI-enabled, cross-system workflows that scale across the enterprise. We're looking for someone with a strong Workday foundation and an inventor mindset to help build what's next.

This is a remote position offering the opportunity to create meaningful impact in a dynamic, fast-paced fintech environment. EarnIn offers excellent employee benefits, including healthcare, internet and cell phone reimbursement, a learning and development stipend, and potential opportunities to travel to our headquarters in Mountain View. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Workday Configuration & Ownership

Own configuration and ongoing optimization of Workday Core HCM and Security frameworks

Design and maintain business processes, workflows, and system controls across the employee lifecycle

Lead system enhancements, releases, and feature adoption

Security & Data Governance

Design and manage Workday security architecture (roles, domains, permissions)

Ensure compliance with audit, privacy, and data governance standards

Partner with IT and Security teams on access controls and risk mitigation

System Strategy & Optimization

Ensure Workday is not operated in isolation but as part of a broader enterprise ecosystem; design solutions that support end-to-end business processes across systems, including access governance, compliance, and cross-functional workflow orchestration

Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and automate People processes through Workday and integrated systems

Drive scalable solutions that reduce manual effort and improve data accuracy

Contribute to the Workday roadmap by defining and prioritizing enhancements based on business impact, scalability, and system health

Establish and maintain system governance and best practices

Partner with People Operations and external Workday support to manage escalations, prioritize issues, and drive systemic resolution of recurring problems

Ensure data consistency and integrity across Workday and downstream financial systems, including reconciliation of headcount, compensation, and organizational structures used in financial reporting and planning.

Develop and maintain system documentation (business processes, decision logic, architecture diagrams); leverage AI tools to accelerate documentation, identify logic gaps, and propose enhancements

Reporting & Insights

Build and maintain advanced Workday reports, dashboards, and calculated fields

Partner with stakeholders to deliver actionable insights across People and Finance

Ensure consistency and integrity of workforce data

Cross-Functional Partnership

Partner with People Ops, Total Rewards, Finance, and IT to translate business requirements into system solutions

Act as a subject matter expert on Workday capabilities and limitations

Act as a key partner to Finance in supporting workforce planning, budgeting, and actuals reporting by ensuring accurate and timely workforce data

Support testing strategy (UAT) and ensure high-quality system deployments

Leverage AI and structured methodologies to define test strategies, generate test cases, support design reviews, and proactively identify logic gaps or architectural improvements prior to deployment

Integrations & Troubleshooting

Partner with technical and business teams to support Workday integrations and data flows