Workday Services Data Consultant

Why we're hiring:

At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT’s mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP’s petabytes of data.

In this role you will be a member of the Workday Services Team supporting and maintaining our Workday Data, your role will grow as we further deploy and expand our Workday coverage both geographically and capability.

Reporting to the Workday Services Data & Integrations Lead You will accountable for ensuring that WPP’s Workday data is maintained, controlled, and loaded as needed by our internal standards and business partners, plus as needed manage mergers and acquisitions projects.

This is an exciting and varied role working with the wider Workday Services team and our AMS partner to provide a outstanding level of Workday support and development on a day-to-day basis and in support of Workday project deployments.

The new Workday Services team provides the post go-live support and enhancement of the Workday solution that replaces some of our important technology and influences our ways of working for many of our colleagues at WPP.

This flagship programme will see Workday deployed across our global landscape to address the technology needs of Finance, Projects, and our People function – so essentially it touches all of our employees to some degree. The key to this programme is that technology is an enabler for change, it’s at the heart of what we do, but it’s not all of what we do. The people aspects of this programme are vital to its success. You will help deliver that success on an ongoing basis for many years to come.

What you'll be doing:

• • Support data requests and maintenance
  • Dealing with data incidents on time adhering to WPP Service Level Agreements
  • Ensuring incidents are clearly and regularly updated to allow successful handover to the next timezone taking over in progress incidents
  • Ensure data provided is clean and accurate before loading
  • Assist with the merger and acquisition process for Workday as needed
  • Maintain expertise on data standards/functionality/features/capabilities in Workday, wider industry, and technology trends
  • Continually review data validation rules ensuring they meet the highest standards possible
  • Accountable for maintaining up-to-date data and associated processes documentation
  • Simplify and automate non-Workday data conversion and validation for upload into Workday
  • Safeguard global standards and ethics against important requests and priorities.
  • winner recommendations for continuous improvement

What you'll need:

• Knowledge of Financial processes and systems
• Workday HCM or Financials/PSA experience would be an advantage, however, is not necessary as cross-training will be provided for the right candidate
• Experience of mergers and acquisitions from a data take on perspective
• Exceptional data experience
• Experience developing data conversion and validation rules in master data tools
• Experience in using informatica data migration solution is desirable
• Understanding of cloud-based data migration solutions
• Ability to understand business requirements and turn into clear deliverables
• Excellent technical understanding of SAAS platforms
• Manage small projects with multiple teams involved and track work against plan
• Working alongside outsourced resources
• Strong ability to work with other platform/product teams to achieve your goals
• Delivery and customer focused, with high energy and drive
• Strong risk awareness skills and management of risk
• Creative solutioning and strong problem-solving skills with agility for fast and simple solutions
• Credibility, professionalism, and strong personal integrity
• Ability to mentor new team members from wide and varied backgrounds

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?