Senior Workday Technical Solutions Specialist

Team: The Workday Product Team

Salary banding: £50,000 to £65,000

Experience: Expert

Working pattern: Full-Time

Reporting to: Richa Rartwal, Integration Lead

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Ownership, Expertise, Enablement

Top 3 qualities for this role: Collaborative, Innovative, and Solution-focussed

This role in a nutshell: Sitting in the Workday Product Team at OVO, part of the wider Colleague Technology function, this role supports the entire OVO group, working closely with the People and Finance functions by configuring system updates and developing & implementing new functionality.

Your key outcomes will be:

• Responsible for developing and maintaining integration solutions for the cloud-based Workday HCM & Finance system whilst ensuring security of information at all times.
• Finding opportunities for process improvement utilizing the Workday integration platform toolset (i.e., Boomerang integrations).
• Providing troubleshooting support for functional and technical production issues, including coordinating with external suppliers and internal teams.
• Collaborating with functional and technical partners to optimize business processes (Embedded Analytics, insights on business processes usage).
• Applying Workday knowledge to support various implementation and improvement projects.
• An SME for Cross Applications such as Prism, Worksheets, Discovery Boards, Security and developing roadmaps and the “art of the possible” with a key focus on data integrity/governance/quality.
• Supporting configuration design and development: Data Structure, Business Process and Role design with focus on data integrity.
• Supporting members of the team with responsibility for knowledge sharing and training to reduce single points of resource dependency and business risk.

Within your first 6 months you’ll:

• Have a sound understanding of our critical integrations.
• Be known in your business area and by key collaborators and stakeholders.
• Be familiar with the use of OVO’s other key finance and people IT systems.

Systems: Workday (including Studio & Prism), Google G-Suite, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, our learning & recruiting platforms as well as our own proprietary systems and CRM tools.

You’ll be a successful Snr Workday Technical Solutions Specialist at OVO if you…

• Have proven Workday experience, with strong exposure to Advanced Reporting, EIBs, Core Connectors, Studio, Prism, and Workday Security Framework.
• Are technically adept - advanced Excel required (Power Query, Visual Basic).
• Demonstrate an understanding of the software development lifecycle, cloud computing, web services, APIs and associated integration challenges.
• Have experience with XML, XPath, XSLT.
• Have experience working with different file formats (CSV, JSON) and character encodings (UTF-8, ASCII).
• Have strong data tooling experience; experience with data conversion, data mining, and data loading is essential (SQL knowledge preferred).
• Are familiar with file transfer protocols and industry standard file encryption.
• Have experience using version control software (Github) & help desk software (JIRA).
• Have HR & Finance functional knowledge.
• Are a critical thinker with the ability to analyze, identify and resolve gaps.
• Have experience working within a fast-moving project environment.
• Are able to handle multiple tasks and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Are able to uphold the highest degree of data confidentiality.
• You are adaptable to change.
• You can communicate technical information in a simple way.

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you

We’ll pay you between £50,000 to £65,000, depending on your specific skills and experience. If your expectations are a little different, have a chat with us! You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal. We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay. It’s an extra 9% of your salary on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, add to your pension, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits.

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing... We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!