Workday Functional Consultant - HCM or Financials

Workday Functional Consultant – HCM and/or Financials 
Matrix – Enterprise Applications Team
Band E, Salary £40,175 - £50,677 (DOE)
Swindon / Newport

UKSBS is a public sector shared service centre providing high quality HR, Payroll, Finance, Procurement and IT services and expertise to our partners. We are proud of the part we play in enabling our partners to achieve the best outcomes for the British people and the UK economy.

Our people are the heart of our success. We are always looking for talented individuals to join our team and play a part in that success that’s why we invest and grow our workforce. In return for your talent and contributions, we offer flexible and family friendly working arrangements, a generous benefits package, an inclusive working environment that values your contribution, and opportunities to develop your skills and career with us.

In line with the Government’s Shared Services Strategy, the Matrix Programme is intending to deliver modern, cost-effective and scalable shared business services to nine departments (the Policy Cluster), with UKSBS as the provider, flexibly meeting changing Government requirements, and driving innovation to optimise efficiencies and enhance user experience.  The Programme will also implement a new modern SaaS ERP platform, from which UKSBS can deliver these services, driving harmonisation and significant business change across the Departments.  This is a large, complex multi-year programme.
What it is like to work in the Enterprise Applications team

We have top-notch talent that we nurture through training opportunities, product certification, wellbeing coaching, and social networking functions. Teams of c. eight individuals, with a mix of subject matter expertise and a variety of business process and ERP modular experiences, work together across implementation and support lines, whether that is on innovative Cloud or SaaS systems, upgrades to legacy tech stacks, or providing subject matter expertise into discovery programmes.

Key responsibilities:

• Be embedded with the Programme team and SI partner to identify opportunities to replace, upgrade and improve people and system processes by providing process and system expertise and know-how in HCM and/or Financials.  
• Give guidance, advice, and input into architectural, technical, design and implementation solutions impacting SME areas and be capable of leading workshop discussions and capturing outputs.
• Document change, continuous improvement, projects-based and BAU support requirements & system specifications with a high degree of accuracy, interfacing with key stakeholders to clarify, refine and validate.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with various parties, both internal & external to advance the development of system upgrades and replacements.
• Work with other stakeholders to support and lead on testing activities ensuring issues are recorded / resolved.
• Communicate information at the right level to drive decisions and actions.

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable Workday Cloud experience in HR, Payroll, Finance, Workforce Planning, and/or Analytics & Reporting of sufficient depth to be able to influence and guide key stakeholders within client groups, the SI, and internal delivery and support teams.
• Ability to co-ordinate work across diverse teams,
• Develop and maintain professional relationships with key stakeholder
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
• Ability to document requirement and functional specification documentation for system enhancements and regulatory changes in support of clients.
• Test development and support to internal and external users.
• Experience of working in a formal Agile environment with issue tracking software and ITSM

Whilst the below are not essential, they would be highly desirable:

• Experience of working within a shared service environment.
• Experience as a team lead for small projects, releases, and other implementations.
• PL/SQL, JavaScript, BI Publisher, similar.
• Good understanding of project & delivery methodologies such as Prince2, Agile, SAFe, and proprietary products such as Jira, ServiceNow.

To find out more about the skills, knowledge and behaviours we’re looking for, read the detailed job description.

We look forward to hearing from you. 

We are UKSBS. We are creating a place where people love to work, a culture where we lead, we change, we deliver and we empower our people to be curious, take action and add value.

Submitting an application

If you wish to apply for this vacancy, please submit your application by midnight on Monday 28th October 2024.

You must submit a CV and covering letter as part of the application process. Your CV should set out your career history including training and qualifications, with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure that each entry of your career history also has a few sentences outlining a description and the key elements of that role.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of quality applications.

Things you need to know

To be considered, you will need to successfully obtain BPSS delete as appropriate before commencing the role, obtaining clearance usually takes 5-10 working days. 

UKSBS does not hold a Home Office Sponsor Licence under the UK Immigration System, therefore applicants must have eligibility to live and work in the UK at application stage.

Working pattern

In return for your skills and experience, we offer flexible and hybrid working arrangements. Eligibility and the degree of home working will vary depending on the requirements of the role, further details will be discussed if an offer is made. 

Benefits

• A generous annual leave allowance
• Flexible working and family friendly policies
• Excellent defined benefit pension scheme
• Cycle to work scheme 
• Season ticket loans
• Employment Assistance Programme
• Childcare scheme and on-site nursery (at our Swindon office)

Find out more about the benefits of working at UKSBS. 

Inclusion, accessibility, and adjustments

As an inclusive and Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from a diverse range of communities.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.

Find out more about out equality, diversity and inclusion commitment and vision.

For additional information, to discuss reasonable adjustments, or if you’d like a confidential discussion please contact our recruitment specialists.