Workday Functional Lead: Talent & Recruitment

Job Description

Grade HResponsible for coordinating activities of a team to support performance and reward reviews through the provision of HRIS solutions, ensuring solutions meet internal compliance and data privacy requirements, and encouraging knowledge sharing of best practice tools and technologies. Entity: People, Culture Communications HR Group At bp, our people are our most valuable asset. The People, Culture Communications (PCC) function fosters a diverse, inclusive culture where everybody can thrive. As part of an integrated energy company, PCC is embarking on a major transformation to be more competitive, responsive, and customer-focused. We re investing in key locations such as India, Hungary, Malaysia, and Brazil, offering an exciting but challenging opportunity to shape a fast-moving PCC function, building teams and structures and driving continuous improvement. We re looking for driven, ambitious enthusiasts who thrive in fast-paced environments and are passionate about people. If youre ready to build something transformative, this is the place for you. The purpose of the Solution Lead (SL) for Workday is to own and drive a portion of the People Culture (PCC) Workday solution, encompassing both process and technology, ensuring that we deliver a great and efficient service for our people. The SL will build strong partnerships across PCC - with the relevant centre(s) of expertise, integrators, services teams and within the solutions teams. The SL will apply their technical expertise (process and technology) to deliver stable operations alongside projects and innovation. To innovate and deliver HR services and solutions globally, ensuring compliance and consistency across Business Technology Hubs, and driving continuous improvement and efficiency. What you will do: Managing a part of the PCC solution - maintaining the health and operational integrity of your solutions / products, working with others to deliver stable operations Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and business needs, for example data privacy and digital security requirements Working closely with colleagues to ensure solutions / products co-exist seamlessly across PCC Managing a prioritised backlog of changes, covering maintenance, fixes (non-urgent) and improvements, with a focus on implementation of ongoing activities Developing and implementing plans for the design, configuration, testing, and deployment of changes for your part of the PCC solution Planning and implementing substantial aspects of change projects, including acting as product owner, delivering through others, delivering to time, cost and quality, managing risks - organize and implement projects, under limited supervision, by facilitating design sessions, leading configuration, coordinating testing, and completing cutover Develop positive working relationships with numerous bp stakeholders - with the relevant centre(s) of expertise, integrators, services teams, within the solutions teams, and with teams outside PCC such as colleagues in technology Building external relations including vendor management Truly understanding the business requirements and working to resolve problems within your area, challenging the status quo and making proposals to deliver against objectives - actively elicit, analyse and document business and functional requirements through requirements workshops, interviews or meeting sessions with Project Sponsors, SMEs and other Stakeholders to contribute to the resolution of technical, process, and business issues related to your part of the PCC solution Evaluate, communicate, and coordinate the functional and technical impacts of configuration and other decisions to stakeholder groups Working within guidelines and professional standards, research to resolve process and technical problems, unexpected results or process flaws and recommend solutions or alternate methods to meet requirements Supporting bp to be a thought-leader in the relevant technology space through ongoing external networking and tech landscape analysis What you will need: Graduate/post-graduate degree in Business Management, HR, Computer Science, or related subject area 5+ years of work experience in relevant Workday domain area - certification (as SI or as Customer) desirable Experience in building digital strategies and roadmaps Experience in systems development and implementation Experience in corporate-wide implementation of global systems and processes Knowledge of the Workday Product including release approach and roadmap Project management methodologies experience with ability to create/manage comprehensive project plans Knowledge of PCC systems Possesses/applies HR systems experience/judgment Knowledge of technology trends Leadership skills Skilled at using data and analytics to identify outcomes and improve decision-making Demonstrable experience in multiple organizational change management roles Expertise in development/delivery of SAAS/Cloud-based products including integrations Demonstrable track record of project/programme management skills including stakeholder management/change expertise Ability to structure and convey complex messages and insights Leadership with vision and ambition Collaborative working style Own your success Think big Be curious Effortless customer experiences Digital first Experience working in both consulting/corporate environments would be a differentiator Experience working in different industries especially in both Energy/Financial Services is beneficial. HR certifications like GPHR, SPHR, CIPD level 7 are advantageous Quality certifications like Six Sigma are desired but not mandatory Skills: Technical Capability Functional knowledge in Workday HCM, Compensation, Benefits, Time Tracking, Absence, Recruitment, Talent, including business process framework, security, and reporting (as relevant to role) Basic knowledge of other products, for example but not limited to: ADP, Saviynt, Cornerstone, SharePoint, Salesforce Breadth and depth across the HR functional areas and able to provide professional advice and act as a coach to others in most of the areas Ability to effectively partner with the Services and Solution teams and successfully influence leaders Digital fluency - not only comfortable and competent using technology to enable and enhance ways of working and thinking, also comfortable in the wider digital environment and collaborate with business transformation including people, processes and data driven actions. Business Capability Demonstrable record of getting results from your field of expertise to develop processes and products Strong business insight and able to show where solutions can add new value to / enable the business at the leadership level Customer focus - Puts the customer and business strategy at the heart of decision making. Ability to guide leaders through choices to best suit business requirements Drives value-adding solutions - driven to create solutions to business problems. Track record of improving/adding new value Externally orientated - actively working on developing external connections, aware of standard process and actively learns from others Leadership EQ Capability Acts as a coach develop your expertise for all Services and Solutions colleagues Continually enhancing capability in line with HR Capability Framework with an equal balance of EQ, IQ and Drive Group mind-set - demonstrates an understanding of the value of, and ability to develop, high quality, trust-based relationships with HR colleagues with the wider organisation - leaders employees Is self-aware and actively seeks input from others on impact and effectiveness Effective team player able to work successfully across organisational boundaries Applies judgement and common sense - demonstrates good understanding of clients business and can apply sound judgement Acts with integrity; role model of bp values behaviors to others in the function and business Cultural fluency - able to operate successfully across cultural boundaries with sensitivity Why join us At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others. We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and ambitious environment. We believe that team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly. There are many aspects of our employees lives that are significant, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. Apply now! Travel Requirement Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role Relocation Assistance: This role is not eligible for relocation Remote Type: This position is a hybrid of office/remote working Skills: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. 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