Business Analyst, Workday Technology

About Bridgewater

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors.

Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles.

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment for excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.

Our Culture

Bridgewater’s unique success is the direct result of our unique way of being. We want an idea meritocracy in which meaningful work and meaningful relationships are pursued through radical truth and radical transparency. We require people to be extremely open, air disagreements, test each other’s logic, and view discovering mistakes and weaknesses as a good thing that leads to improvement and innovation. It is by continually striving together for the highest levels of truth and excellence that we create meaningful work and meaningful relationships. Within this culture, Diversity and Inclusion is a top priority because it is essential to finding the best talent in the world, enabling our idea meritocracy, and creating an environment where all types of people can thrive. We have a full-time team as well as affinity networks that work on these issues - If you would like to learn more, please let your Bridgewater recruiter know.

About the Technology Department:

The Technology team at Bridgewater engineers systems to understand the world. These systems synthesize and industrialize our global understanding into a hive mind of macroeconomic knowledge which enables us to educate and collaborate with the world’s most influential central banks and policy makers and carefully and strategically manage the world’s most important capital. Our technologists are engineering highly available, high performing and highly secure cloud platforms and infrastructure which support and scale our investing operations.

Position Summary:

We are searching for a driven and analytical problem solver for the position of Workday Business Analyst. This individual will primarily focus on supporting the Finance Modules. This position is part of Bridgewater’s fast-paced Workday technical team that is responsible for implementing new Workday modules, delivering enhancements, bi-annual upgrades, and day-to-day support for the entire Bridgewater population. The incoming Business Analyst will be responsible for partnering with business users to create solutions that will achieve department goals by analyzing financial technology and process needs. This individual will be responsible for requirements gathering, delivering functional business analysis for technology and process transformation projects, and implementation of solutions within Workday. The ideal candidate would possess the ability to dynamically shift between technical and business project needs and should be equally knowledgeable within each of these realms.  A member of this team must be hard working, confident, with excellent ability to multitask, deal with ambiguity, prioritize, and be goal-oriented.

The preferred candidate would possess Workday Finance experience implementing the modules while adhering to the Workday methodology.  Workday security expertise is also a plus.

We think you'll click with us if you:

• Can drive complex, high-value projects involving multiple partners to success, on time
• Anticipate problems and complications, and formulate solutions to unblock the progress of the project
• Act as an owner, assume responsibility and drive issues to resolution
• Constantly raise the bar, never satisfied that anything is good enough
• Can balance pragmatism, excellence and agility with good logic

You'll drive the following responsibilities:

• Assessment of business needs and utilization of Workday to deliver optimal solutions for Bridgewater
• Implementation of technology solutions in the Workday HCM (and potentially the Payroll) Module
• Providing strong day-to-day support to all Bridgewater customers
• Partner with business users to create solutions that will achieve department goals by analyzing financial/HCM technology and process needs
• Gather requirements, delivering functional business analysis for technology and process transformation projects, and implementation of solutions within Workday

 Position Requirements:

• • Bachelor’s degree (information technology or HR focus area)
  • 2+ years’ of Workday Finance experience
  • 2+ years’ experience as a Business Analyst
  • Experience implementing ERP systems
  • Strong focus and organizational skills with meticulous attention to detail and ability to multitask
  • Innate curiosity and aptitude to learn quickly both informally on the job and through formal training

Physical Requirement

For most of our roles, Bridgewater offers remote work flexibility, with most employees required to work on campus as their principal work location, minimum of two days (and in some cases three days) per week with the option to work offsite on other days.  This role offers the option for full remote flexibility as well.

Why Choose Bridgewater?

It takes all types to make Bridgewater great. We seek a diverse group of innovative thinkers and push them to engage in rigorous and thoughtful inquiry. We develop people through an honest examination of their abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development. We strive to provide you opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential.

Compensation Band:

• The compensation band for this role is $150,000 - $225,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 70% - 80% of this wage range

One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits including:

• Health insurance with 100% premium covered and access to additional concierge medical services
• 401(k) plan with generous employer match
• Paid time off, including fully paid parental leave and a competitive PTO package
• Workplace flexibility and access to back up childcare
• Financial assistance for family building support, including adoption and egg freezing
• Workplace wellness, including on-site gyms, free meals and healthy snacks , and meditation rooms
• An engaged and active community that includes many company events, affinity networks, and extracurricular interest groups
• For a full list of Bridgewater benefits, click here.

Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations

This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment. Please note that we do provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer