Lead Workday HCM Consultant

Our people love the exciting and meaningful work they do, the cutting-edge resources and technology they have access to, the benefits we offer and the great community we’ve built. Want to join them?

Main purpose of the role & responsibilities in the business:

As a Lead Workday HCM Consultant, you will work in a team to implement and configure enterprise scale Workday solutions for our global customer base, typically leading a project workstream. You will build relationships with our customers, shaping and delivering solutions that are aligned to customer needs, fit for purpose, and commercially viable. You will provide excellent guidance to customers, understanding their business and requirements. You will support more junior members of the team and share your knowledge with them.

Minimum (essential) requirements:

• Strong understanding of Workday products either/or HCM as well as any specialist Capability.
• Prior systems/software implementation/integration experience.
• Workday Partner Certification (preferably Benefits, Comp, Advanced Comp, L&P, Recruitment).
• Excellent customer focus, able to assess customer needs, build relationships and manage customer expectations. You will know when to push back, when to escalate, and when to go above and beyond to satisfy a customer.
• Strong communicator, able to communicate with customers (English and Polish) and colleagues with impact, credibility, and empathy, including in a remote working situation. Sound ability to formally present to senior Client audiences.
• Strong commercial awareness and full understanding of project and business dynamics.
• Broad business and technology understanding and a good awareness of industry trends in either Human Resource Management, Financials, or Enterprise Resource Planning or Payroll.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and make sensible decisions under pressure taking a balanced view of Customer demands and Kainos commercials.
• Ability to widen and maintain a network of external contacts.
• Strong consulting skills e.g. presenting, leading workshops, demonstrating and explaining complex functionality or solutions to customers.
• Able to lead a functional workstream on a prime implementation throughout the full project lifecycle.
• Willing and able to act as a role model within the capability and mentor and/or line manage more junior consultants.
• Keen to support the sales process including the production of estimates for the delivery of work packages.
• Commercial understanding of utilization within a services organization and the importance of these targets.
• Able, if required, to travel to customer sites in the same region (minimal out of region travel may also be required).

Desirable:

• Professional qualifications in your area of expertise.
• Experience in post deployment services.
• German knowledge.

People management:

• Your role may involve managing people and your responsibilities may include:
• Agreeing, setting, and reviewing your and your team’s goals aligned to Kainos, Workday Business Unit, and your Capability.
• Providing support so that your and your team’s goals can be achieved.
• Reviewing and refining goals for relevance and to keep performance on track.
• Review performance against goals and provide feedback.
• Conducting 1:1 monthly and/or project completion feedback meetings.
• Requesting and providing regular feedback in Workday.
• Completing End of Year reviews and agreeing on the outcomes for the year.
• Identifying training to support your and your team’s development.
• Pursuing and supporting your and your team members’ career paths and progression.
• Reviewing weekly workload forecasting (staff allocations and timesheet checks) and utilisation.
• Actively being involved in recruitment/interviews.
• Reviewing attrition and retention metrics.

What we offer:

• Company share scheme plan.
• Private medical insurance at Medicover.
• Group life insurance.
• 3000 Pounds for refer-a-friend scheme.
• Reimbursement of the costs of purchasing a chair and desk to be used in the home office.
• Access to Pluralsight online training.
• Core hours (starting work between 8 am and 10 am).

Who you are:

Our vision is to enable outstanding people to create digital solutions that have a positive impact on people’s lives. Our values aren't abstract; they are the behaviours we expect from each other every day and underpin everything that we do. We expect everyone to display our values by being determined in how obstacles are overcome; honest when dealing with others; respectful of how you treat others; creative to find solutions to complex problems and cooperative by sharing information, knowledge and experience. These values, applied collectively, help to produce an outstanding Kainos person, team and culture.

Who we are:

Kainos’ customer is a FinTech start up with heavy backing, both financially and from across their target industry. Their vision is to build an on-demand service to replace an old and ineffective system which their target market all has deployed on premises. The core functionality will be commercial software, similar to that currently deployed on premises.

Kainos are building all of the surrounding services: infrastructure as code, message handling, data handling and persistence, analytics, operations, orchestration, integration with customers, and a whole lot more!

This is Kainos’ largest commercial sector project – and will really put us on the map: multi-million Euro deal, multiple years of ongoing development and service. A chance to be build something that changes an industry!