Department/Unit:

Human Resources

Work Shift:

Day (United States of America)

Salary Range: $21.79/hr - $34.85/hr

Albany Medical Center is looking for an HR Associate to support their HCM platform, Workday, while dividing their time to also provide frontline support at the HR Service Desk to answer questions and offer guidance for all current and future employees that visit HR. This position will assist managers and employees in all facets of the employee life cycle while giving someone the opportunity to become exposed to various areas of Human Resources at Albany Med.

This role will provide high-touch support to our community of employees, managers, students and staff collaborating with the Human Resource Team to provide guidance and coaching to managers and employees on Workday processes and HR programs in order to stay in line with our policies and best practices. From onboarding, assisting with employee transactions, audits, staffing projects, terminations, etc. - this role will be heavily involved from a system execution perspective.

To be successful, we are looking for someone who is results oriented and can build strong relationships with management and employees along with possessing great communication and interpersonal skills. These attributes contribute to the proactivity, utilization and success of our Workday system and workforce needs.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

Assist managers and employees through the HR Workday processes when needed

Support staffing rotation for the HR Service Desk and address walk-in customer needs in a timely professional manner.

Provide knowledgeable Tier 1 technical support via phone, walkup, and virtual environments such as Microsoft Teams

Takes ownership of customer issues from first contact, assuring that the customer knows the person receiving their issue or request is dedicated to assisting them. Seek help from colleagues and escalate to HR managers for issue resolution

Collaborate with other Albany Med departments including Budget, IS and payroll to develop solutions and assist in the execution when needed.

Validating daily, weekly, monthly, and annual employee data integrity audits

Ability to assist employees in person with HR policy interpretation and Workday inquiries when providing rotating service desk support

Utilization of Workday test environment to explore and test potential solutions to troubleshoot issues

Interact with Leaders across Albany Med to help ensure our Workday functionality is operating optimally based on organizational needs

Become well versed in Workday configured business processes and Workflow

Perform proactive Workday testing and validation to support semi-annual system updates or future module implementations such as Benefits, Performance Management, etc.

Identify system inefficiencies and recommend effective solutions.

Assist with HR Projects and staffing initiatives

Ensures that telephone calls, emails, and chats are responded to in a professional and timely manner

Performs additional duties and responsibilities as needed

Requirements

Education:

BA/BS required.

Experience:

HR experience preferred

Workday experience not required, exposure or experience preferred

Desired Skills and Knowledge:

Strong functional knowledge of HR processes

Analytical skills, thorough, and detail oriented

Problem-solving and process improvement skills to deliver recommendations to work stream owners

Some familiarity with windows-based applications and technology

Workday or other HCM experience preferred but not required

HRIS/HRIT experience preferred but not required

Thank you for your interest in Albany Medical Center!​

Albany Medical is an equal opportunity employer.

This role may require access to information considered sensitive to Albany Medical Center, its patients, affiliates, and partners, including but not limited to HIPAA Protected Health Information and other information regulated by Federal and New York State statutes. Workforce members are expected to ensure that:

Access to information is based on a “need to know” and is the minimum necessary to properly perform assigned duties. Use or disclosure shall not exceed the minimum amount of information needed to accomplish an intended purpose. Reasonable efforts, consistent with Albany Med Center policies and standards, shall be made to ensure that information is adequately protected from unauthorized access and modification.