People Systems Analyst in London

The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy and advocacy campaigns, and building partnerships. We plan to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.

We have an exciting opportunity for a People Systems Analyst to join our People Systems team to support the design, build, testing and maintenance of configuration enhancements across our People Systems and enabling Wellcome to become the best place to work and supporting the delivery of the mission.

Where will I be working? Reporting to the People Systems Lead within the People Operations team you will help maintain and develop our HR systems, including Workday, to support our processes and enhance the employee experience.

What will I be doing? As People Systems Analyst you will:

• Undertake discovery, design and build of the full range of configurations across all Workday skews (HCM, Compensation, Absence, Recruitment, Learning, Help, UK Payroll, Performance, Talent).
• Support with day-to-day system management for all people systems including troubleshooting complex system issues/fixes, ensuring robust data and security management.
• Liaise with product owners from across the People team to maximise system functionality and enhance user experience.
• Implement enhancements to our people systems, managing end-to-end testing processes and documentation for any configuration build.
• Oversee configuration development undertaken by AMS providers, briefing requirements, testing and moving into production.
• Support in collating, analysing and developing bespoke and ad hoc reporting to aid leaders and teams in decision making.

The minimum requirements of the role are:

• Workday systems experience - deep knowledge of Workday modules, experience to include complex and significant Workday configuration, security management, integrations, reporting.
• Experience of delivering high quality projects/pieces within tight deadlines.
• Strong understanding of the current People Systems landscape.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with experience in Stakeholder Management.

Our Hybrid Way of Working: We understand that our colleagues have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to build a flexible working environment, in which people can perform at their best. At Wellcome we have a hybrid way of working which is 3 days in our Euston Road offices (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) with the remaining 2 days working either remotely or in the office.

Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. Diversity and Inclusion is a priority at Wellcome. We are committed to cultivating a fair and inclusive environment, where everyone can be themselves and thrive. We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition.

Upon a conditional offer being made, the successful applicant for this position will be required to undertake a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service (or equivalent) criminal record check to disclose any ‘unspent’ criminal convictions or conditional cautions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.