Workday Functional Lead – HCM / Financials / Generalist

Workday Functional Lead – HCM / Financials / Generalist
Matrix – Enterprise Applications Team
Swindon, Newport, or Billingham– flexible and hybrid working options
Band F : £50,001 - £63,075 (DOE)

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.

Key responsibilities

• Provide hands-on oversight, governance, and management of the design, build, test and delivery of HCM and/or Financials-related processes, translating ‘As-Is’ set up into ‘To-Be’ work stream requirements through the exploitation of deep modular subject matter expertise, business process flows and system enhancements experience. 
• Lead system requirements documentation work to analyse process flows and create i.e. Low-Level Logical Design artefacts, Impact Assessments, Privacy Impact Assessments and Data Protection Impact Assessment to support Matrix colleagues.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with customers and third-party suppliers, interface with key stakeholders to clarify, refine and validate requirements;
• Continually improve design, setup, and system test processes to drive quality standards
• Support Matrix work stream leads and provide a pivotal liaison point of reference with a wide range of system end-users, both internally and external
• Understand strategic and resourcing needs pointed at Matrix work streams, ensuring delivery and support tasks are prioritised and completed in line with plans.
• Communicate information at the right level to drive decisions and actions.
• Conduct feasibility studies and participate in/lead workshops for the implementation of new/upgraded products and processes.

To do this role well you will need: 

• Demonstrable Workday Cloud experience in HR, Payroll, Finance, Workforce Planning, and/or Analytics & Reporting.
• Ability to partner with key internal and external stakeholders and work stream leads to understand strategies to effectively plan, prioritise and schedule work.
• Demonstrable first-hand leadership experience within a complex multi-tiered, multi-client ERP platformed organisation.
• A proven track record of to participating and driving Leadership Group-level meetings to facilitate a greater understanding of design requirements, TOM strategy, and delivery timelines
• Experience of leading a change or support team resources effectively, using training, coaching, and mentoring techniques.
• Has managed, planned, coordinated, and supervised activities related to the planning, scope/definition, design, development, testing, and implementation of on-prem and Cloud or SaaS-based enterprise systems and applications.
• Previous experience of reviewing larger solution designs across their technology or application stack to sense check design solutions.
• Previous Oracle ERP experience (e-Business or Fusion) to support TOM, mapping and data migration activities would be highly advantageous
• PL/SQL, JavaScript, BI Publisher, and similar.
• Good understanding of project & delivery methodologies such as Agile, ITIL as well as capacity planning concepts.
• Extended knowledge of integration components such as PenServer, HMRC would be highly advantageous

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

Full Time - Hybrid working options available, over 37 hours per week (8:30 - 17:00)

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.