Workday Business Advisor (12-month contract) Contract

Reporting to the Senior Manager Platform Integration and Security, the Workday Technical Consultant is responsible for providing high level technical, configuration, security and development support to users and Workday administrator/support team members

Our full (HCM and Financial Management) platform implementation of Workday is a key component of this strategy with over 1,400 employees in TMX offices around the world using the platform.

The Workday functionality in use includes HR core operations, payroll, performance, compensation, financial accounting, budgeting/planning, spend and procurement management, invoicing and project management. HR, Finance and the PMO are core users of the platform. A larger group uses self serve analytics from Workday. Workday is also directly integrated with banks, benefit providers, internal billing systems and other internal cloud platforms such as Servicenow. Workday also releases a new version twice a year automatically requiring that all core users test and uptake the new version before the release date.

Reporting to the Senior Manager Platform Integration and Security, the Workday Technical Consultant is responsible for providing high level technical, configuration, security and development support to users and Workday administrator/support team members

This requires the Workday Technical Consultant to:

Keep up with the constantly delivered new functionality
Coach users in technical areas of Workday functionality
Build expertise in the integration development, advanced reporting, core business process and security areas in Workday
Designing, building, testing and releasing complete software solutions, preferably including integration solutions between several systems.
Experience of using XML, XPath, XSLT, and an object-orientated language such as Java
Strong knowledge of Cloud Computing, Web Services, and integration challenges.

 Key Accountabilities:

Advanced Security, Configuration & Business Process Support: 

Develop strong knowledge / understanding of the Workday security model
Develop broad knowledge of various functional areas in Workday and their interdependencies
Research and understand new features or functionality as requested in order to provide feedback and recommendations on best approach to achieve desired outcome
Understanding users requirements relating to identified issues, proposed enhancements & feature requests
Provide direction / support / guidance for support team members to implement required changes, enhancements & features

Development:

Build integrations in Workday Studio and other Workday integration functions
Quality peer review of reports generated with the other functions (Ensure use of consistent data objects, calculations, etc. to yield consistent results when reporting on the same types of data
Ensure testing protocol compliance from report writers in business before releasing reports to production

Other:

Assist with adoption planning (continuous improvement) backlog maintenance
Assist with release preparation and tracking related user testing
Skills and Experience:

 Must Have(s):

1-2 years previous experience in ERP / HRIS implementation and support
Ability to partner with business lines to understand and analyze requirements
Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships
Ability to build solutions based on target outcomes with minimal direction from senior staff
Ability to learn through online research and interaction with other users (Workday Community)
Excellent time management skills
Attention to detail and strong documentation skills
Nice to Have(s):

Functional (HR/Finance) area experience
Consulting experience
Business analysis experience
Report writing experience