Senior Functional Analyst, Workday

Overview

Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX: The Senior Functional Analyst, Workday serves as the functional owner for end-to-end processes across Core HCM, Talent and Performance, Absence, and Compensation. This role is accountable for the strategic design, governance, compliance, and continuous optimization of these capabilities within Workday and across integrations with downstream systems.

Partnering closely with the Product Owner, People Systems Manager, and senior business stakeholders, the Senior Functional Analyst provides thought leadership and expert guidance on Workday functionality, configuration decisions, and industry best practices to meet evolving business needs. The role leads Workday release management activities, including impact assessments, comprehensive regression testing, evaluation of new features, and implementation of enhancements where appropriate.

The Senior Functional Analyst ensures high standards of system documentation, data integrity, and audit readiness across all supported modules. This role actively contributes to the internal knowledge base by sharing insights, presenting new or enhanced functionalities, mentoring peers, and proactively identifying opportunities for process and system improvements.

In addition, the role provides escalated operational support, leading complex troubleshooting efforts and resolving system issues to ensure stable, efficient, and scalable people processes.

This role is based out of our North Vancouver office with hybrid work flexibility. Candidates are expected to regularly support in-office collaboration and stakeholder engagement.

The Global People Operations team provides Total Rewards, People Systems, People Analytics, People Operations, and Policy and Compliance services. We play a critical role in scaling the People and Culture function and enabling the business. We partner across all areas to evolve people practices and maintain strong alignment with the needs of our growing, global organization.

• Functional Ownership — Serving as the subject matter expert for Workday Absence, Compensation, Talent Management, and Security modules, ensuring optimal configuration and alignment with business objectives. Translating evolving business requirements, compliance standards, and policy updates into clear and actionable functional specifications for HRIT and Technology partners.

• Compliance & Governance — Ensuring Workday processes and configurations comply with internal policies, compensation governance standards, and relevant labor and data protection regulations across all jurisdictions. Maintaining accurate documentation for configurations, security roles, and process flows, supporting internal controls and audit readiness.

• Testing & Quality Assurance — Leading functional testing for enhancements, releases, and configuration changes across Absence, Compensation, Talent, and Security, validating data integrity and end-to-end functionality. Collaborating with Technology and cross-functional teams to execute integration testing, manage release readiness, and ensure seamless deployment of new features.

• Stakeholder Engagement — Building and sustaining strong partnerships with People & Culture, Compensation, Talent and Technology stakeholders to ensure Workday solutions meet strategic business needs. Collaborating with external vendors and Workday community forums to stay informed of best practices, product updates, and emerging functionality.

Future focus areas

• Supporting a major Workday transformation initiative focused on modernizing and expanding our platform to unlock new capabilities and elevate the employee experience.
• Enhancing and expanding our current Workday environment by optimizing existing functionality and supporting the implementation of new modules to drive business value.
• Innovating continuously to identify and deliver Workday solutions that accelerate business performance, streamline processes, and elevate the employee experience.

• You have 5+ years in Workday functional roles, with hands-on configuration and support in one or more of the…