Role: Lead consultant - Workday
Responsibilities:
* Act as a Workday HCM expert with deep knowledge of design, configuration, testing, and implementation.
* Become an authority on the people management processes Workday supports at Customer - e.g., Joiners/Movers/Leavers, Absence, Compensation, Benefits.
* Utilise your hands-on expertise of Workday to deliver your enhancements, including configuration, reporting, business processes, security, loading customer data, and moving configuration from tenant to tenant.
* Rigorously follow the Customer Change Management Process in JIRA; clearly articulating the requirements, business benefits, design, functional/technical change, impact, and test approach for your Workday enhancements.
* Collaborate closely with the product managers and product owners to analyse, develop, test and implement changes in line with business priorities.
* Promote a culture of continuous improvement.
* Evaluate technical & functional designs against business requirements; ensuring impact to supported systems is understood and managed effectively.
Skills and experience:
* 6 to 8 years Workday HCM implementation experience is essential for this role; Workday integration experience would also be beneficial.
* Workday certifications desirable.
* Strong knowledge of HR business processes & systems is essential for this role.
* Experienced working on large projects; evaluating complex design documentation against business requirements and ensuring solutions delivered are fit for purpose.
* Experienced creating detailed technical implementation plans and migrating changes into production.
* Working knowledge of PowerPoint and Visio.
* Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills to interpret customer issues & requirements and translate into working solutions.
* Ability to understand business requirements, evaluate technical/functional design documentation and accurately assess any impact on existing systems and processes.
* Strong communication and presentation skills (written and verbal) – proven capability to communicate clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences at different levels as appropriate.
* Highly organised, detail-oriented, possessing the ability to effectively prioritise support, projects and deliverables whilst meeting deadlines set by management.