HCM Workday Manager

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As a HCM Workday Manager, you will be diving in with extensive experience in core internal functions, collaborating to design, upgrade, and maintain system integrity, while leveraging technology to support key HR and employee workflows.

You will be an essential member of our team as we navigate through a transformative phase, enhancing our Workday infrastructure in response to our expansive change. This growth has reshaped the landscape of our Workday platform, necessitating a strategic overhaul to align with our evolving organisational structure and operational demands. 

In this role, you will not only lead projects but also play a critical role in training and supporting our employees in maximizing their use of Workday. Your guidance and expertise will empower teams and drive overall growth and success within our organization.

Shift Timing: 2pm - 11pm IST

What You’ll Be Doing.

• Serve as an Subject Matter Expert in Workday HCM.
• Work closely together with our global team of HR and other Business stakeholders to provide solutions for complex queries.
• Provides functional system support to the HR Team on Workday processes.
• Responsible for understanding new functionality and assisting business stakeholders in using Workday effectively and efficiently.
• Lead end to end project activities including requirement gathering, solution design, test development & implementation
• Stay current with Workday releases, new features, and best practices, and make recommendations for system enhancements and improvements.
• Manage and support key technical initiatives to deploy additional Workday functionality on the application roadmap.
• Maintain effective communication with stakeholders, delivering project updates, resolving issues, and ensuring alignment with business objectives, while emphasising the need for ongoing training and upskilling among team members

You’ll Need To Have

• 5+ years of work experience in the field of HR (Cloud) transformation and in-depth Workday knowledge (including configuration), with a specialisation in at least two of the functional domains.
• Support various HRIS tasks and projects within the Workday HRIS ecosystem including but not limited to need analysis, impact analysis, documentation of business requirements, configuring and unit testing solutions in Workday, building test scripts, co ordinating testing efforts including UAT, preparing for production roll out, help with change management efforts.
• Strong configuration skills in Workday HRIS, Manager and Employee self-service, Core Compensation and/or Advanced Compensation, Performance Management, Talent Management, Workday reporting including complex reports and calculated fields.
• Work with Workday Security Admin to implement security changes needed for solutions being delivered.
• Proficiency in generating and populating Workday EIB templates, and loading data using advanced Excel skills.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to see the bigger picture without losing sight of details.
• Excellent Analytical, problem-solving, interpersonal, communication and team-building skills.
• Strong multitasking capabilities and flexibility to prioritise and organise projects/tasks to meet deadlines.
• Attention to detail and excellent organization skills.

Desirable :

• Workday HCM Pro Certification

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About Monks

Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.