Workday Functional Lead

2 weeks ago

Crawley, United Kingdom Thales Full time

Location: Crawley, United Kingdom

Thales people architect solutions that support 85 million mainline and suburban passenger journeys, worldwide, every day. Our Rail Signalling and Communication systems are used on metro lines across major cities, and 72,000 kms of route, 52,000 trains per day in 16 countries are controlled by our Traffic Management Systems. Together We deployed the first-ever nationwide ticketing system which processes over 50 million ticketing transactions in 100 cities daily.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Our Opportunity

Ground Transportation Systems (GTS) are currently in an exciting period of change as we transition ownership from Thales to Hitachi Rail. With this change comes lots of opportunity and a chance to help shape the future of the rail industry. This role will transition to Hitachi as part of the transfer of ownership of GTS.
- HCM
- Absence
- Compensation & Benefits
- Recruiting
- Talent & Performance
- Reporting & Analytics
- Security

This is a Global role, and whilst recruited in the UK, can be based anywhere with an overlap of 4-5 hours with the UK time-zone.

Our Workday system supports 10k end-users across 48 countries.

Key Requirements:
Reporting to the HR Applications Director, your tasks will include, but not be limited to, the following:

- Maintain system configurations for assigned Functional Areas
- Monitor Workday Releases and plan adoption of required functionality, including testing
- Engage in the Workday Community, raising and voting on brainstorms to support GTS requirements
- Ensure integrity and quality of data in the HRIS database including, but not limited to, security, organizational structures, reporting catalogs, and staffing details; taking necessary actions to update the system
- Monitor and respond to customer requests regarding system complications; malfunctions or enhancements
- Escalate Workday bugs to Workday via Customer Central cases
- Correspond with global HR and other HRIS team members regarding new or requested system changes
- Maintain a system of record for all change requests, test results and configuration changes
- Assist with mass data loads using EIB or OX, including - but not limited to - restructures, acquisitions, and annual compensation reviews
- Knowledge sharing and informal on-the-job training of Tier 2 colleagues (Country HRIS)
- Ensure the appropriate end-users are receiving the data necessary to complete their work in a proficient and timely manner, while also ensuring data privacy and system integrity

Human skills:

- Analytical thinking with a big-picture perspective
- Able to anticipate downstream impacts to system changes

Experience required:

- Experience managing complex people technology solution from design to delivery and post go live support

Qualifications:

- Certification (or proof of Workday licensed training) in relevant Workday Functional Modules
- Formal qualifications in a related field of study, or an equivalent combination of education and experience

What We Can Offer

We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Flexibility

Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

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