Vacancy: Senior Solution Specialist - Workday
Location: Vilnius, Lithuania (Hybrid)
Johnson Matthey IT (JM IT) is Johnson Matthey’s global IT function responsible for ensuring that our IT capabilities are not only able to support and integrate technologies but can also work alongside our business units and corporate functions to provide leadership and direction to provide competitive edge and improved operating efficiencies.
The Senior Solution Specialist - Workday role, as part of the People Platforms team, is to provide in-depth functional development, and ongoing support and maintenance for the global Workday platform, ensuring that current and future business requirements are adding value and are fully delivered. They will also provide in depth business process support to the business when scoping requirements to ensure optimal value delivery exploiting best practice Workday solutions.
The role will work closely with business stakeholders, the platform lead and IT architecture teams to help shape the Workday roadmap. The role will configure the system alongside the internal team or strategic partners to deliver long term value. They will work closely with other Platform teams to ensure joined up designs and solutions. Ability to plan, prepare and execute systems and other staged testing, required to confirm readiness of developed changes for release to live production environments.
Your responsibilities:
Guiding the HR Functional team in all aspects of Workday with the focus on translating technical terms into Functional/HR terminology with workable solutions
Ensure the platform is secure, scalable, and high performing, monitoring key metrics and KPIs, identifying and addressing issues, and proactively identifying opportunities to optimize performance and enhance the customer experience
Oversee configuration reviews within the team and suppliers by inculcating new ways of thinking to improve design, quality etc. to drive higher engineering productivity and quality while driving standardisation and modularisation
Oversee Production L3 support to HR & Business for Workday Technical incidents and requests, liaising with vendors, where needed and providing timely resolution within agreed SLA’s
Ability to configure Workday functionality to meet agreed Change Requests/requirements within their areas of specialism
Ensure optimisation of the engineering lifecycle through a systematic knowledge management and continuous learning process to better enable the organization to meet market and client needs
Requirements for the role:
Highly experienced Workday qualified professional with experience across multiple projects, along with ongoing application maintenance and support (5+ years' experience)
Be a subject matter expert as a Workday Functional Specialist. Minimum of three Workday modules – with working knowledge across all modules, including integrations and security
Excellent business analysis skills in a highly regulated industry e.g., chemical, manufacturing, or pharmaceutical
Experience in navigating complexity - proactively and quickly making sense of complex issues; responding effectively to complex and ambiguous situations; communicating complicated information simply
Ability to initiate action - taking prompt action to accomplish objectives; taking action to achieve goals beyond what is required; being proactive.
How you will be rewarded:
Salary range for this position is from 48,500 to 72,500 EUR per year depending on various factors, such as candidate’s qualifications, skills, and competencies. This role is also eligible to receive discretionary annual bonus that align with individual and company performance. Other rewards and benefits include the following:
Health & Well-being: a diverse, inclusive, work & life balance work environment; hybrid way of working; health insurance from the first day of employment; employee assistance program.
Great career growth and development opportunities in a global organization Life, accidents & critical diseases insurance
IIIrd Pillar Pension Fund contributions.
Paid volunteering opportunities (2 days per year)
At JM, an inclusive culture is integral to our values and ambitions for the future. We are committed to ensuring that everyone can bring their full self to work and thrive in their career. Welcoming everyone to JM, regardless of their unique characteristics, experiences or thoughts allows us to bring many different voices and experiences together to tackle the world's biggest challenges. Being truly inclusive means that all colleagues feel valued for their differences, views and contributions, and feel a sense of belonging at JM.
Johnson Matthey, a FTSE 250 organisation, is a global leader in sustainable technologies specialising in catalysis, precious metal products, chemicals and process technology. With operations in over 30 countries, we employ more than 12,600 people. We have more 200 years of success behind us; be part of the next stage of our growth journey and help maintain our reputation as one of the most admired organisations in our field. Our unique culture and people give us competitive advantage and will ensure our success for years to come. You can be part of that success story.
Johnson Matthey is open for discussion on part-time, job share and flexible working patterns.
How to apply:
If you have the necessary skills and experience to join our team, please apply online. For any queries or should you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application please let your recruiter know when they contact you.
If you are already a Johnson Matthey Employee, please visit the internal careers site to apply: Find Jobs - Workday (myworkday.com)
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