Workday HCM Analyst specializing in Compensation
Posted Dec 09, 2025 - Gameloft Barcelona
1 Permanent
Project Duration
As a Workday HCM Analyst specializing in Compensation, you will play a key role in configuring, maintaining, and improving our compensation and performance management processes. You will be responsible for configuring and supporting the Compensation and Advanced Compensation modules in Workday, as well as collaborating with HR teams to ensure the accuracy and efficiency of our compensation processes. You will also be involved in implementing new features and optimizing existing processes.
What you will do:
- Set up and maintain Workday's Advanced Comp features, including bonus plans, merit cycles, and eligibility rules.
- Act as the principal subject matter expert in Workday Compensation, owning solution design, configuration, testing, deployment, and governance.
- Prepare, manage, and run our annual global compensation processes
- Review and implement new Workday features with strong focus on automation and optimized user experience
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex Workday issues in both Compensation and HCM, ensuring operational continuity during critical cycles
- Contribute to Workday reporting and analytics, with a focus on Compensation
- Work with Business Process Owners to recommend and implement enhancements and best practices that help automate, build efficiencies, enable self-service, and eliminate manual processes
- Support the assigned functional areas including gathering user requirements, design, configuration, coordination of user tests and implementation in production
- Analyze Workday bi-annual releases to perform non-regression tests, assess the impact on existing configuration and suggest new enhancements
- Ensure data integrity, troubleshoot issues, and create reports/dashboards for leadership decision-making.
- Maintain security domains and security groups, including assignments to users
- Build audits and alerts to check data quality, identify discrepancies and establish plans to address them
- Coordinate with the other Workday module owners to ensure a shared governance and alignment among all modules.
- Act as functional expert and operational contact to provide user support
- Maintain documentation for employees, managers, HR and the Workday team
- Assist in the development of a change process, communication and training
- Conduct monthly HR Community meeting and weekly meeting with regional HR referents
- Ticket management (bugs, questions, evolutions)
Experience:
- Ideally 5+ years of experience as a Workday Business Analyst, specializing in the Compensation and Advanced Compensation modules.
- Experience configuring and managing compensation and performance management processes
- You’re a true explorer Workday Community has no secret for you!
- A good understanding of HR processes and ability to maintain confidential information
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Experience working in an international environment
- A customer service mindset and approach
- Ability to work independently and as a part of a team
- Expertise in compensation cycles (merit, bonus, equity).
- Analytical, tech-savvy and data-driven mindset
- Skills
Core HR: HCM
Compensation and Benefits: Compensation
Analytics, Planning, and Reporting: Analytics & Reporting