CE Global Partners

Role Overview:

Key Responsibilities:

Functional Workstream Leadership:

• Lead and manage the Workday functional workstream throughout the implementation lifecycle, from discovery and design through to testing, deployment and transition.
• Develop, maintain and manage detailed functional workstream plans, deliverables, milestones and dependencies.
• Coordinate HR SMEs, HRIS team members and other business stakeholders to ensure timely completion of functional activities.
• Own functional workstream reporting, progress tracking and RAID management (Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies).
• Identify and escalate design decisions, delivery risks and cross-workstream dependencies.
• Ensure the functional workstream remains aligned with the overall programme plan and key milestones.

Functional Design and Solution Assurance

• Lead and coordinate the completion and review of Workday design workbooks and functional requirements.
• Facilitate workshops with HR SMEs, HRIS teams and the SI to review requirements, assess solution options and agree design decisions.
• Challenge and assure the SI's proposed Workday solutions, ensuring alignment with business requirements, Workday capabilities and leading practices.
• Evaluate functional design options, including their impact on HR processes, user experience, integrations and downstream systems.
• Maintain oversight of design decisions, ensuring appropriate business ownership, approval and documentation.
• Identify potential design gaps, unnecessary complexity and opportunities to adopt standard Workday functionality.
• Ensure end-to-end HR processes are considered rather than individual functional areas being designed in isolation.

System Integrator Management:

• Act as the primary client-side functional counterpart to the SI's functional leads.
• Manage and challenge SI functional deliverables, design recommendations and proposed solutions.
• Review the quality and completeness of functional documentation, workbooks and design outputs.
• Track SI functional progress against agreed deliverables and milestones.
• Coordinate the resolution of functional issues, design gaps and dependencies.
• Provide independent client-side assurance that the configured solution reflects the agreed design and business requirements.

HR Processes and Operational Readiness:

• Lead the development and documentation of future-state HR business processes.
• Own and lead the production of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), working with HR SMEs and HRIS stakeholders.
• Ensure SOPs reflect agreed Workday designs, business processes, responsibilities and operational controls.
• Support the definition of future-state roles, responsibilities and hand-offs between HR, HRIS and other business functions.
• Ensure process documentation supports a successful transition into business-as-usual operations.
• Work closely with testing, change management and training teams to ensure functional designs are understood and validated.

Testing and Deployment Support:

• Support the definition and review of functional testing scenarios and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate HR SME participation in functional testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Support the triage and resolution of functional defects, working with the SI and HRIS teams.
• Ensure the business understands and accepts the delivered solution ahead of deployment.
• Support functional cutover readiness, knowledge transfer and transition to BAU.

Skills and Experience:

Essential:

• Proven experience leading a functional workstream on a Workday HCM implementation, ideally including an initial deployment.
• Strong understanding of Workday functional design principles, capabilities and standard business processes.
• Experience working in a client-side functional leadership, design assurance or solution governance capacity.
• Demonstrable experience managing and challenging a Workday System Integrator.
• Experience coordinating HR SMEs and HRIS resources across multiple functional areas.
• Strong understanding of Workday design workbooks, functional requirements and solution decision-making.
• Ability to evaluate solution options and challenge proposed configurations without undertaking configuration directly.
• Experience developing and managing workstream plans, status reports, RAID logs and dependencies.
• Experience designing and documenting end-to-end HR processes and writing Standard Operating Procedures.
• Strong workshop facilitation, stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to balance business requirements with standard Workday functionality and implementation best practices.

Highly Desirable:

• Strong knowledge of recruitment systems, recruitment processes and end-to-end recruitment solution design.
• Experience with Workday Recruiting, including recruitment workflows, requisition management, candidate management and hire processes.
• Understanding of recruitment system integrations, third-party recruitment platforms and the interaction between recruitment and core HCM.
• Experience designing and assuring end-to-end Hire-to-Retire processes.
• Previous experience working on complex, multi-country or global Workday implementations.

Role Clarification – Not a Configuration Position:

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