Workday System Analyst

About Us

G Adventures is the world’s largest small-group adventure travel company and we’ve been making epic travel memories happen on all seven continents for over 30 years.

Our mission is simple: to change lives through travel. And not just our travelers’ either. Since day one, our tours have been built to establish meaningful relationships with local communities, directly benefiting the people and places we visit at every step of our tours.

With the demand for travel coming back strong, we are set up and excited for this next chapter in our company’s story — and we’d love for you to be a part of it.

Our DNA revolves around building, nurturing, and developing a diverse culture of people and a true sense of belonging, where everyone is encouraged to bring their authentic self to work each and every day. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, and yourself, alongside a passionate, talented, and welcoming community that works hard to spread goodness around the world.

If all that sounds like your kind of thing, well, we can’t wait for you to join us.

About the Role:

Reporting to the Director, Enterprise Systems, this role will be part of the Workday implementation team from an HCM and Financial Systems capacity. As part of the Technology Department, this role will work closely with our implementation partner/s, various business stakeholders, and members of our technology team to successfully execute tasks related to the working live environment (HCM) as well as the active roll-out of Workday Finance. The successful candidate will support our Workday implementation for both HCM and Finance, in areas of Business Processes, Custom Validations & Master Data configuration and well as out of the box Integrations (EIB’s, RaaS, API/WebServices), Report Development, Migration through Customer Central, Workday Release Management, Tenant Management, User Management, and Case Generation Management through Workday Community. The incumbent will work with our Talent and Finance stakeholders on new initiatives related to Workday as well as support the current live environment.

Please note this role is hybrid, based out of Toronto, Canada or Cape Town, South Africa, where a minimum number of days as set by the region, is required in office.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Assist Finance and Talent departments in maintaining the existing configuration and design of business processes, custom validations, worktag management, grouping categories and hierarchies, and overall system configuration

• Generate and support simple and advanced (WD) reporting for Financials and HCM 

• Elicit and document Finance and HCM business requirements 

• Build, change/update, & test changes as requested in areas of system configuration & reports, and review/test releases provided by Workday

• Document new processes implemented or update existing documentation when processes and/or configuration changes

• Manage own sprint cycles through task management tool (ClickUP) to establish velocity deliverable velocity using sprint points   

• Review Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Yearly managed tasks to ensure the health and integrity of the Workday system

• Assist Finance and Talent team with granting security access to functional areas (Domains, Roles, Groups) and assist in managing existing Security model/configuration

• Report any issues as a Case in Workday as a NSC and assist stakeholders with any issues encountered in the system that requires Workday Support

• Release management (Preview Tenant) 

• Connector Integrations - minor integrations using out of the box connectors 

• Workday User Account Management in Production and non-production environments

Desired Skills & Experience

• 3+ years of Workday administration, support, or analyst experience

• Workday system administration and configuration knowledge, a must

• Experience with Workday connectors and integration tools, a plus

• Experience supporting HR and Finance processes and functions

• Experience with Business Intelligence and reporting tools

• Excellent organizational, time management and problem solving skills

• Expert collaboration skills and superior attention to detail and accuracy

• Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including system and process documentation

• Ability to succeed in an environment that is subject to constant and fluid change

• Driven and motivated by a fast-paced environment and have a willingness to learn and be

• Challenged by continual professional development

• Demonstrated experience engaging with all levels of management including senior-level

• executives

• Demonstrated experience with agile development methodologies and project delivery while

• Adherence to established IT & Financial controls

• An unfailing commitment to internal and external customer service

What do we offer you?

• Competitive salary commensurate with the role

• Competitive benefits package 

• Birthday day off

• Vacation time for you to recharge

• Enhanced Parental Leave

• Learning and growth opportunities

• Employee Resource Groups

*Applicable based on location*

G Adventures is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We consider all qualified applicants.