Workday Fucntional Consultant
Inside IR35
6 months
Rate - Negotiable

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.


LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.

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