HR Digital Business Analyst - Compensation & Benefits

Job Description – Business Analyst Compensation & Benefits

Location : HQ Paris

The Product & the Team you will work with

As a Workday Compensation & Benefits Business Analyst at Pernod Ricard, you will be part of our HR Tech, part of the Global Tech team. Forming a strong tandem with the Compensation & Benefits Product Owner, you will play a crucial role in driving the continuous improvement and evolution of our HR technology solutions, particularly focusing on improving Workday but including other related tools (eg International Mobility platform).

Workday is our Group Workday HRIS deployed in more than 85 affiliates across the world. Compensation & Benefits (which include International Mobility) are a central part of our Workday products, ensuring we provide the most efficient solutions in terms of configuration for our plans and processes, driving harmonization, automation and simplification wherever possible, supporting our HR users and providing expert advice as well as improving HR & employee experience.

This position offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation, efficiency, and contribute to the development of cutting‑edge products within our agile organization.

About the role

The Business Analyst Compensation & Benefits (which includes International Mobility) supports the Product Owner in all activities ensures clear, structured, and high‑quality functional requirements for our global Compensation & Benefits solutions (mainly Workday but including associated solutions). The BA translates strategic needs provided by the Product Owner into well‑designed solutions, manages backlog items, drives process improvements and ensures delivery quality to our 85+ affiliates.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. New requirements, exploration & annual cycles

• Analyse and refine business needs collected by the Product Owner
• Explore solutions or new functionalities that could help achieve our goals (eg Total Rewards, Compensation Surveys, Journeys, updates from Workday Community…) and collaboration with other Business Analysts to gather information and anticipate cross‑team dependencies
• Conduct functional impact assessments
• Prepare & support the annual compensation reviews (Merit, Bonus, Stock)
• Analyse recurring issues to identify root causes
• Propose functional enhancements or simplifications based on incidents or user feedback
• Analyse updates from Workday releaseq and identify impacts / opportunities to improve or deliver new features
• Contribute to L2 support, identify & implement incident resolution

3. Agile ways of working & squad participation

• Prepare detailed, testable User Stories to feed the team’s backlog
• Together with the PO, prepare the PI plannings & Sprints and ensure they are delivered successfully
• Provide the delivery team with business context and expected outcomes as well as day‑to‑day support with configuration work
• Prepare and execute test scenarios (unit, integration, non‑regression).
• Participate in all Agile ceremonies: PI Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily stand‑ups, Refinement essions, Sprint review and retrospectives
• Maintain clear and structured functional documentation

YOUR PROFILE

Required Skills & Experience

• 3 – 5 years’ experience as HRIS Business Analyst or functional expert on Workday (module Compensation & Benefits, including Advanced Compensation).
• Strong functional understanding of Compensation & Benefits as well as International Mobility processes.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions
• Excellent ability to structure workflows, rules, and functional specifications.
• Preferred experience in Agile methodologies
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving and documentation skills
• Fluency in English; French is a plus

Your strengths

• Structured, rigorous, detail‑oriented
• Excellent communicator with ability to synthesize complex needs
• Proactive and able to work autonomously
• Team player, solution oriented and client‑focused
• Collaborative mindset and ease working in cross‑functional teams
• Ability to navigate complexity and maintain functional consistency

We offer you an outstanding and collaborative workplace that embodies our sharing & conviviality culture, the possibility to work remotely (up to 2 days a week), a very complete mutual insurance, an attractive compensation including profit‑sharing, continuous learning opportunities, employee events, and more.

Pernod Ricard is committed to offering equal opportunities to all talents.

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