HRis Workday Project Lead

From day one, our mission has been to create an independent business with a unique culture - one that is controlled by the people who work for it. Finding the most talented and entrepreneurial people has always been key to our success.

People come to Howden Group Holdings for lots of different reasons, but they stay for the same one: our culture. That’s what sets us apart, and why we nurture and retain the best talent in the market. Whatever your priorities - work/life balance, career progression, sustainability, volunteering - you’ll find like-minded people driving change at Howden Group.

HRIS Lead

12 months FTC

As Howden UK&I becomes one integrated business with the vision of being the leading independent UK and Irish insurance distributor, recognised by clients as the go-to-to broker of choice, the HRIS Lead will play a pivotal role in delivering the HRIS workstream, as part of HR Operations. The HRIS workstream will predominately be focused on the deployment of Workday across Howden UK&I including all Finance and IT integrations. Working with our implementation partner the role will ensure the successful delivery of Workday and associated processes, data and change management.

Key Accountabilities
- Build strong relationships with business stakeholders supporting current business capabilities in-scope for migration to Workday
- Gather local/legislative requirements and working with the implementation partner to translate those into Workday configuration.
- Work closely with other functional/technical leads to ensure a cohesive design and that cross-functional impacts are considered and mitigated.
- Work with the implementation partners to validate configuration and test Workday
- Support business users during testing, helping them identify what is a true defect
- Support training and engagement to ensure our key stakeholders will be fully utilizing Workday when deployed
- Working with other internal resources to develop user procedures, guidelines, and documentation.
- Proactively research new functionality/modules and provide recommendations on new features that could be used to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and user experience
- Manage stakeholders throughout the implementation and hyper-care phases of deployment

Knowledge, Skills & Experience
- Excellent knowledge of Workday, covering HCM, Absence, Learning, Recruiting and Payroll
- Excellent technical skills across a wide range of technology products
- Previous experience in transformation projects and migrating legacy systems onto Workday
- An inquisitive and challenging mind, with an interest in questioning and improving the “as is”
- Excellent operational skills e.g. processes, procedures, data analysis
- Excellent HR experience and knowledge
- Client focused
- Collaborative and supportive
- Works with others to deliver results
- Takes personal responsibility to deliver results
- Communication and stakeholder management
- Ability to manage service standards

What do we offer in return?

A career that you define.

Yes, we offer all the usual rewards and benefits - including great healthcare provision, a wide variety of wellbeing offers, competitive salary, generous pensions and more - but we know you expect all that.

What you might not expect is a job where everyone has a voice, where volunteering in the community is part of the day job, and where everyone is encouraged to play a part towards our sustainability goals. We want people who want to make a difference - not just in the workplace, but in the industry and in the wider community.

Our Culture: People First

We are proud to be at the global table, but we are most proud of our culture. It has been built on a single and constant set of principles over more than 25 years, and it has helped us become:
- An international group with independence and people at its heart- A home for talent with a unique culture: the biggest small company in the world

The focus on being a People First business has always been at the very heart of the Group. David’s vision was to create an independent business with a unique culture; one that would survive and thrive as a business controlled by the people working for it. Finding the most talented and entrepreneurial people to join the Group has been and will continue to be key.

Diversity & Inclusion

Additional Job Details

Worker Type:
Fixed Term Contract (Fixed Term)