HCM Workday Consultant

Configuration experience with Workday HCM and Security functions required

• Maintain workday on a day-to-day basis.
• Need great communicator, and PM skills.
• Core HCM and security certs highly desirable
• 20% configuration and 80% project work and investigations.
• How to set up business processes, troubleshooting, and fully versed in security model of HCM.
• Hands on recent configuration experience
• Went live with Workday in January, so now mostly bug fixes, troubleshooting, going thru items that haven t been worked yet.
• Questions and investigations go into case queue, and this person is responsible for this besides the project work.
• Ability to work at a quick pace and multitask. This is very critical to be successful
• Responsible write UAT scripts, technical requirements, and make sure everything is configured.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and implementation of strategy for the HR functions of Workday, anticipating complex issues, challenges, and opportunities and ensuring integration with wider functional strategy.
• Initiate and lead the governance and delivery of a program or group of significant projects within a function, using an appropriate project management methodology to give assurance that intended outcomes are identified and achieved.
• Lead the production of project plans and approve them, ensuring that all activities are identified, are appropriately organized.
• Ensure that roles and responsibilities are clearly defined within the project-delivery and project-management office teams, and ensure project compliance with the function's decision-making structures and processes.
• Identify and manage stakeholders up to and including management level, finding out their needs, issues, and concerns and reacting to them by leading and coordinating the development of stakeholder engagement plans to support the communication of business information and decisions.
• Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, and operational management for the team and beyond in the function. Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging technologies, external regulation, and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
• Lead the development of project- and program-management frameworks and tools to ensure that they meet the needs of key internal and external stakeholders.
• Identify the capabilities needed to meet the current and emerging business needs of a significant business area. Evaluate current capabilities, identify gaps, and prioritize development activities.

Skills:

• Plans and prioritizes work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
• Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Sees ahead to future possibilities and translates them into breakthrough strategies.
• Anticipates and balances the needs of multiple stakeholders.
• Knows the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions.
• Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations.
• Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Provides direction, delegating, and removing obstacles to get work done.
• Monitors, interprets and understands policies and procedures and ensure their alignment with organizational strategies and work objectives.
• Plans and manages small project work assignments within desired time and quality parameters.
• Determines and analyzes trends from data that is collected to assist in compiling reports that will help in decision-making.
• Obtains consensus between two or more parties who may have different interests, for the benefit of the organization.
• Identifies, selects, and manages the oversight of projects, programs, and portfolios, including standardized policies and procedures, escalation, decision making, change control, prioritization, and approval processes.
• Plans, identifies, monitors, analyzes, and prioritizes risks (threats and opportunities), creates response plans, and manages the risk if it occurs.
• Orients work in a workflow to plan, organize, and execute the steps it takes to achieve higher efficiencies.
• Represents enterprise processes, so that the current process may be analyzed, improved, and automated.
• Estimates each of the components of a project, including costs, activity durations, resource needs, risks, stakeholders, etc. across the life of the project.
• Works at an advanced level to identify, sequence, and resource project schedules for timely completion.