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ROLE SUMMARY

Reporting to the Vice President, Human Resources, the Director, Workday Systems will manage efforts to support members of the Talent and Finance Departments with system configuration, metric monitoring, reporting, and analytics tied to the HR Information System (HRIS), Workday.  The Director is responsible for leading a cross-functional group of subject matter experts through system improvements, maintenance, and defect management. They will also work collaboratively to support change management efforts when new features or updates are released to Alliance staff members. 

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Project Management 

• Provide the vision to maintain the current Workday features as well as identify opportunities for future modifications and enhancements grounded in best practices;

• Maintain a roadmap of system enhancements and adoption items, and reprioritize when necessary;

• Offer domain expertise in Workday functionality and system design;

• Partner with Talent, Finance, and Operations team leaders to improve current processes, and promote standardization, efficiency, and standard methodologies;

• Help define and coordinate vendor-offered training or turnkey information when the platform updates; 

• Work with Functional team leads to ensure documentation of existing processes related to Workday are centrally located and accessible. 

System Design

• Perform Workday administrative functions which may include security maintenance, business process configuration, tenant configuration, report building, and support for integrations;

• Excellent troubleshooting skills and capable of fostering strong relationships with end-users including Principals, Home Office leaders, and subject matter experts;

• Can provide accurate estimates for configuration changes and rapidly provide solutions;

• Support Workday feature release updates and enhancements, while communicating the implied impact on business process requirements;

• Develop the overall systems design, architecture, deployment, support, and life-cycle activities, methodology, and processes

• Collaborate with other teams on processes as needed to test and implement effective solutions

• Communicate with technical architects to ensure the system meets strategic architecture requirements, functional flexibility, connectivity, and supports efficient growth of the business/ enhance and improve processes in collaboration with all department leads in Talent, Finance, and School Operations

Network Leadership 

• Implement software update and enhancement processes (test updates, communicate the impact of changes, update documentation and processes) with functional partners

• Define, scope, and schedule projects to deliver timely and regular value

• Deeply understand goals and use cases for Workday and propose system design/enhancements based on product capabilities;

• Work with Business Process Owner(s) to understand and encourage the long-term vision for the platform.

• Serve as a strategic advisor to network leadership teams on cross-departmental projects,  opportunities for cross-collaboration, process improvement and problem solving;

• Lead and prepare for Workday Governing Committee meetings that support cross-functional collaboration,a commitment to strong outcomes,  and monitor prog