Workday Security Analyst

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Job Title: Workday Security Analyst
Location: REMOTE
Job Type: Direct Placement or Contract to Hire
Referral Fee:
Employment Eligibility: Gravity cannot transfer nor sponsor a work visa for this position. Applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S. for any employer directly 

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree: Information Security, Computer Science, Risk Management, or a related field
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in IT governance, risk, and compliance (GRC).
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with Workday security and SailPoint access control.
• Knowledge of security frameworks and regulatory compliance (e.g., SOX).
• Experience configuring, maintaining, and auditing Workday security, including domains, business processes, and security groups.
• Hands-on experience with user provisioning, deprovisioning, and access management in Workday.
• Experience performing security impact assessments for configuration changes and enhancements.
• Managing role-based access controls and segration of duties monitoring.
• Troubleshooting SSO/SAML authentication and access issues.
• Conducting security reviews, risk assessments, and remediation planning.
• Experience handling security incidents, escalations, and break/fix support.
• Partnering with HR, Financials and Supply Chain customers for issue resolution.
• Experience monitoring integration and EIB access to ensure data security.
• Building security audit reports and dashboards.
• Supporting Workday releases, feature adoption, and security regression testing.
• Documenting change controls, and approvals for security updates.
• Partnering with stakeholders to prioritize and execute security enhancements.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Demonstrate proof of security controls during internal and external audits.
• Provision and deprovision access in Workday.
• Monitor segregation of duties
• Collaborate with IT and business customers on security-impacting changes.
• Document change controls for security changes made.
• Support Workday releases with a focus on security impacts and security regression testing.
• Drive continuous improvement in security governance processes.
• Educate business leaders on security policies
• Contribute to any discussions and decisions concerning enterprise application security.
• Monitor emerging threats and recommend proactive security enhancements.
• Proactively stay up to date on Workday releases involving security.
• Champion security feature adoption where beneficial.
• Develop and enforce Workday security governance policies.
• Perform security audits, assessments, and readiness for internal and external compliance requirements.
• Monitor system activity and ensure policy compliance.
• Lead audit readiness efforts and maintain documentation.
• Review security roles and access controls for adherence to policy.
• Develop and maintain awareness of divisional and data security and comply with policies and procedures.
• Ensure alignment of security practices with organizational goals and regulatory standards.

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