Workday Functional Consultant

End Date
Thursday 01 February 2024
Salary Range
£37,548 - £41,720
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Agile Working Options
Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary
• JOB TITLE: Workday Functional Consultant
• LOCATIONS: Halifax or Leeds
• HOURS: Full Time
• WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in our Halifax or Leeds site.
Could you help us develop excellent experiences for our people that help reshape our business and deliver success?
We're looking for a highly skilled and experienced Workday Functional Consultant to join our established Workday Component Team. If you want to take your career to the next level, delivering business-focussed colleague transformation programmes, then this could be for you.
As a Workday Consultant, your main focus will be to create and apply Workday and broader solutions that re-imagine the possible, bringing business value and improved user and customer experience.
We’re also embarking on a major transformation programme - putting unprecedented levels of investment into our platforms, people and capabilities.
Job Description
Lloyds Banking Group has been named:

• A Top 10 UK Employer for Working Families
  
• A Times Top 50 UK Employer for Women
  
• An Investing In Ethnicity Outstanding Employer
  
• Business Culture Award for Best Large Organisation For Culture
  

Your role will include:

• researching, identifying and building prototypes for new features, delivering improvements to our candidates and colleagues experiences.
  
• prioritising and leading input to the development and automation of processes across the organisation. This will often include collaborating with your colleagues across our People Platform team, and wider LBG network to identify and create solutions that bring value to our people.
  
• working on multiple tasks/projects at one time, handling your time and priorities for effective deliveries.
  
• liaising with Functional Leads for critical escalations and collaborate with the colleagues in the Platform team, Engineering team and Centres of Excellence.
  
• solving incidents and working on action requests for People Applications prioritizing based on customer impact.
  
• soliciting and challenging requirements, leading and facilitating workshops, analysing data, and configuring solutions in Workday.
  
• configure business requirements into Workday configuration and setup in a scalable, easy to use, efficient and secure way.
  
• keeping yourself up to date with the latest system enhancements to provide advice and guidance to your stakeholders to support their business needs.
  
• using the skills and knowledge you develop to analyse problems and issues, make bold recommendations to resolve them and implement.
  
• supporting Workday Releases to understand new features rolling out, checking the impact, identifying new possible enhancements and regression testing for Automatically rolled out features relevant to the Application Team.
  

What we need from you
You’ll be self-motivated, collaborative, resilient and your ability to challenge will be critical to ensure that our processes and procedures are aligned to our People-first Value.
You'll need to evidence that you:

• have a current Workday Pro certification or a minimum of 2+ years experience.
  
• solid understanding in one or more of the following areas: Absence, Time Tracking, HCM, Compensation Benefits, Talent, Recruitment or Learning (Compensation, Time & Absence and/or Recruitment modules is desirable).
  
• strong digital and data analysis skills
  
• take personal responsibility for delivering against agreed priorities, handling your own workloads and letting others know if you need additional support.
  
• the ability to listen to and critique requirements and provide innovative solutions to challenges.
  
• have an active development plan which looks to broaden your skills to meet the organisational demands of the future.
  

What you get in return
We're dedicated to giving you opportunities to learn, grow and develop to help maximise your potential.
As a team we're committed to helping our business reflect the diversity of the customers and communities we serve, and to building an inclusive environment where everyone can be themselves and succeed on merit.
You’ll have the chance to build your internal and external networks by leading change activity which will make everyday a little bit better for our people.
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our colleagues to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
  
• An annual performance-related bonus
  
• Share schemes including free shares
  
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
  
• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
  
• A variety of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
  

Do you want to do amazing work, that’s exciting and makes a difference to millions of people. Join our journey!
If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.