Senior HRIS Analyst

Job Description

At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group. Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent. Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society.

We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.

Aberdeen comprises three businesses:
Interactive Investor, Investments, and Adviser, each focusing on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs.

• Interactive Investor, the UK’s second largest direct‑to‑consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.
• Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
• Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager focusing on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.

Aberdeen’s HR Systems Squad sits within the Corporate Technology Office; this squad manages Aberdeen’s core HR systems with Workday as its strategic tool of choice. Aberdeen is live with Workday Core HCM, Recruitment, Payroll, Extend, Talent and Help. We have an exciting roadmap ahead to further enhance our systems architecture over the next three years and embed and enhance ways of working.

The Senior HRIS Analyst is an expert role within the HR Systems Team and is responsible for configuring, developing and maintaining Aberdeen's Workday infrastructure. This role will involve working closely with stakeholders across HR, technology and other functional areas that are dependent on HR data. We are seeking a candidate with strong practical expertise in time tracking and absence modules.

• Support the Product Owner to deliver a backlog view of all priorities.
• Lead the systems aspects of core projects involving scoping, design, delivery and maintenance of Workday changes and configuration.
• Provide subject‑matter expertise on Workday, particularly HCM, time tracking and absence.
• Proactively suggest and lead systems improvements, using business requirements to inform technical design, process configuration, security set up and testing.
• Keep up to date on new functionalities and identify enhancements to current ways of working.
• Ensure presence within the Workday ecosystem, connecting with other customers.
• Share knowledge of best practice, systems enhancements and reporting with HR.
• Manage complex employee and manager requests via a tiered HR support model (using Workday Help).
• Ensure adherence to HR and IT systems and change governance.

• Substantial experience working within the Workday ecosystem with significant exposure to configuring and developing core modules.
• Strong continuous improvement focus, high attention to detail, the ability to work independently and with a wide range of stakeholders, and a commitment to deliver great service.
• Proven experience in configuring, maintaining and enhancing Workday processes across time tracking and absence modules.
• Completion of Workday training with extensive practical application, ideally covering Workday Core HCM, Time Tracking and Absence.
• Experience in additional Workday modules desirable.
• Expertise in Extend, integrations and reporting advantageous.
• Ability to communicate effectively to non‑technical stakeholders to establish requirements and identify optimal solutions.

There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We offer 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, discretionary performance‑based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits –…