Description
Our HR team is looking for a Workday Analyst to help manage the continuing growth and evolving HR technology platform.
This role will focus on maintaining and actively supporting ongoing improvements to our Workday platform while ensuring the use of best practices across the business areas.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partnering with key stakeholders to understand their business requirements and how the system can best support these.
- Being proactive in understanding system functionality and future roadmaps to ensure we are optimising our use of Workday.
- Supporting, analysing, troubleshooting, and resolving Workday issues.
- Working closely with our Data and IT teams to develop and maintain integrations into downstream business solutions.
- Delivering and supporting optimisation projects and enhancements.
- Documenting technical specifications and mapping of impact across the business.
- Escalation for complex queries relating to Workday business processes to ensure effective system service delivery.
- Training and upskilling key stakeholders in the use of Workday.
- Analysing system performance and suggest improvements.
- Manage the review, impact analysis and implementation of the bi-annual Workday release cycle.
- Deliver Products, Tools, and Documentation, ensuring the delivery of change is made against a fully auditable process.
- Maintaining the security for the system including; testing, assurance, data privacy and best practices.
Person Specification:
Essential Criteria:
- Extensive Workday Configuration Experience.
- Workday Pro or equivalent Workday training (6+ Workday certified courses to include HCM for Administrators, Report Writer, Business Processes for Administrators plus one specialism i.e. Learning, Recruitment, Talent and Performance).
- Functional experience in HCM and reporting plus one or more of the following areas: Talent and Performance, Recruitment and Learning.
- Knowledge of, and comfort with, the complexities of integrating HR systems and processes with wider business administration activities.
- Expertise in HR data governance and best practice, particularly regarding HR system security policies.
- Experience of engaging with stakeholders to develop detailed requirements, identify change impacts, propose solutions and agree achievable timelines.
- Experience of change management to ensure successful adoption of system improvements.
Desirable Criteria:
- Formal certification/training in Workday methodologies and practices.
- Functional experience in one or more of the following areas: time tracking, security, integrations.
- Additional experience in WD Studio and/or advanced reporting.
Benefits:
- Salary of £37,260 - £44,194 per year
- £10,794 contribution towards Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme
- 25 days leave, increasing by 1 day every year to a maximum of 30 days after five years’ service
- King's Birthday privilege holiday and 8 days’ bank and public holidays
- Flexible working arrangements
- Excellent professional development opportunities