Lauren Williams

Hardworking, reliable, and determined individual with over five years of experience in Workday Security, including HCM, Financials, and Reporting workstreams.

Workday

Security-Pro certificated with expertise in database management, analyzing processes, organizational skills, problem-solving, leadership, crisis management, communications, and working with confidential information. Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to learn and meet deadlines. Capable of working independently or as part of a team with diverse backgrounds.

Workday Security Lead - Healthcare Consulting Agency - Remote-Contract

(2025-04)

• Configures and maintains Workday's tenant SSO/SAML security, configurable security framework, including role-based, user-based, advanced security configurations and domain security policies.
• Manages and configures business process security policies and workflows, ensuring secure and compliant data access across HR and Finance functions.
• Oversee all user provisioning and de-provisioning processes within Workday, collaborating with cross functional teams, assisting with Cybersecurity investigations to define and refine access controls.
• Directs the troubleshooting and resolution of complex Workday security and access issues, providing expert level support to end-users.
• Serves as a subject matter expert on Workday security for functional and technical teams, clearly communicating capabilities and advising on best practices.
• Leads the security workstream during the semi-annual Workday release cycles, testing and validating changes to ensure security remains intact.
• Acts as a Lead security liaison between IT, HR, Finance, Cybersecurity, and external stakeholders for all Workday security initiatives and compliance efforts.

Workday Security Lead - Healthcare/ IT Consulting Agency - Remote-Contract

(2025-10 - 2026-05)

• Security Architecture & Design Implementation: Lead the end-to-end design and configuration of Workday Security, including complex Security Groups (Role-Based, Intersection), Domain Security Policies (DSP), and Business Process Security Policies (BPSP).
• Cross-Module Support: Serve as the Security SME for core HCM modules, providing hands-on support and configuration for Time Tracking, Recruiting, Payroll, and Scheduling.
• Testing & Stability: Manage full-lifecycle testing phases—including unit, functional, and parallel testing—to ensure system accuracy, stability, and seamless data flow during implementations.
• Technical Advisory: Provide expert guidance on authentication protocols (SSO/SAML), proxy management, and Integration Security (ISUs/ISGs) to protect sensitive organizational data.
• Strategic Futureproofing: Anticipate and mitigate long-term design limitations by recommending and implementing best-fit security structures that scale with organizational growth.
• Stakeholder Partnership: Act as a trusted advisor and HIT liaison, collaborating with business stakeholders to align security frameworks with strict organizational and compliance requirements.

ERP Cloud Administrator II - University of Central Florida - FL- Remote

(2023-06 - 2025-04)

• Collaborates with Workday Administrators, Report developers, and Integration developers to help provide security solutions for the Workday HCM and Adaptive Planning, Financials platforms.
• Design, configure, test, and deploy Workday solutions throughout the development lifecycle.
• Support, configure, and troubleshoot reports, business processes, integrations security, user-based, position-based, Tenant Setup and organization-based security processes.
• SOX Audit, analyze, validate, and test security structure across Workday tenants.
• Assist with the configuration of business process security, delegations support, reporting, and perform security role assignments for responsible areas.
• Performs security and tenant-related impact analysis and implementation of releases and upgrades and communicates accordingly.
• Manages global tenant configurations, Adaptive Planning, and tenant maintenance.
• Monitors Workday for the system, performance, and security-related Workday Bi-Annual updates.
• Documents about security policies and procedures.
• Provide excellent customer service while ensuring all security issues are resolved in a timely and efficient way.

Workday HRIS Business Analyst - R1 RCM - FL -Remote

(2022-07 - 2023-06)

• Performed Workday consultation to Global Human Resources HCM workstreams, Security, Reporting, IT.
• Assisted with the Implementation merger of Cloud Med security and data into Workday.
• Assisted in the implementation of Workday, reporting, dashboards, configuration, securities, business processes, domains, and ten.
• Submitted Report and Security core intake forms on behalf of clients and stakeholders.
• Performed Workday Security and SOX audits.
• Performed data mapping and analysis by utilizing Excel formulas and EIB templates.
• Created Pivot tables and data analysis on Human Resource employee global data.
• Assisted with Client Service Centers with their Workday reporting and Workday access.
• Collaborated with colleagues, stakeholders, and global team members.
• Participated in Workday Learning training sessions.
• What's New in Workday, tenant updates and resources on Workday Community, Attended Workday Rising.

Business Analyst, Workday - Tallahassee State College

(2020-06 - 2022-03)

• Provided technical assistance with the execution of Implementation of Workday, creating alternative organizational structures, academic units, routing, conditions of business processes and securities.
• Completed Enterprise Interface Builder (EIBs), merged data from different tenants and stayed up-date on tenant maintenance.
• Created, updated, and audited security groups, Workday security domains and business process security policies.
• Assisted with reports, and merging data to different tenants, for Workday HCM & Student.
• Enabled configurations for new Workday functionality and led testing over information specialists.
• Completed and troubleshooted Team Dynamics Workday tickets from end-users and functional leads.
• Resolved system issues and provided daily operational support in the Workday cloud database.
• Coordinated the execution of test plans, evaluates results, researched Workday Community, suggested requirements, and solutions.
• Researched new modules and capabilities of systems using Workday Community, What's New in Workday.
• Provided training demos and materials using a combined understanding of the system's capabilities and institutional needs.
• Developed functional requirements and specifications for enhancements and implementation of new technology and system modifications with stakeholders and the technical staff.
• Collaborated with colleagues, stakeholders, and end-users.
• Performed testing scripts of scenarios in Accenture's TAPP for Workday HCM, testing new functionality.
• Provided updates on Workday items such as new functionalities, business processes, reports, hubs, and modules.
• Identified process inefficiencies through gap analysis and outlined sensible solutions.

Coordinator of Student Conduct, Dean of Students - Florida State College at Jacksonville

(2018-12 - 2020-06)

• Performed collection, management, and reporting of data; assisted with troubleshooting and implementation of data management systems and procedures. Attended database conference, Simplicity-Advocate.
• Educated and provided guidance to students on Expectations of Student Conduct, campus/ community resources and informed students of FSCJ's new conduct office.
• Conducted in resolution of student conduct performed investigation and adjudication of cases as Hearing Officer and Case Manager.
• Facilitated Decision-making workshops for students that address behavior norms, conflict resolution, and wellness techniques.
• Introduced new codes for the Expectations of Student Conduct, updated to include the state of Florida Sunshine laws citations. Revises and updates Expectations of Student Conduct.
• Implemented and maintained, new students conduct sanct.

Master of Science - Higher Education Administration - Barry University (2022-08)

Bachelor of Science - Sociology/Criminology - Florida State University (2017-12)

Associate of Science & Associates of Arts - Tallahassee State College (2013-12)