HRIS Senior Advisor

The Role

The Role You will be joining the team at an exciting stage of our People journey with significant investment in our People technology and process design, following the implementation of Workday and other technologies to support the People team in their effort to become a more strategic partner to the business. We are looking for a Senior HRIS advisor, experienced in Workday Absence & Time, to take ownership of the design, configuration, and ongoing optimisation of Workday capabilities across Absence and Time Tracking within a global environment.

You will provide functional knowledge and expertise on local People process/policy requirements coupled with demonstrating in-depth technical configuration expertise of Workday.

• Acts as an expert functional specialist for Workday technology including People transactions, business process configuration and design, including advising the People team, managers, and employees in the proper use of the system
• Collaborating with subject matter experts (SMEs) to gather requirements and translate those business requirements into well-architected solutions that best leverage the Workday platform
• Evaluate and provide recommendations with alternative solutions to system limitations
• Actively researches for new enhancements and releases in Workday, continually seeking opportunities for consistency, harmonisation, simplification in technical design and configuration whilst ensuring a custom-centric people experience and with a downstream system impact mindset
• Co‑own the delivery and prioritisation of change requests, document changes and process requirements, providing impact analysis and implement solutions in accordance with internal governance procedures
• Acts as an escalation point for issues related to configuration, business processes, notifications
• Analyse, diagnose and resolve complex technical production issues
• Build, test, and deploy Workday configuration (including PECI) as part of agreed projects and changes
• Optimise Workday reporting tools such as PRISM, People Analytics, Worksheets, Slides and Discovery Boards to respond to day‑to‑day reporting requests and cyclical production of statistics/reports to meet stakeholder requirements
• Utilise EIBs (Enterprise Interface Builder) to make mass updates in Workday for data changes
• Partners with IT to provide support to inbound/outbound integrations
• Work collaboratively with key stakeholders, in particular broader IT and acts as gatekeeper to the AMS provider for issues escalation and/or delivery of configuration changes
• Delivers training and engagement activities to ensure key stakeholders are fully utilising Workday
• Seek opportunities to upskill users to be self‑sufficient
• Contributes to the production of training materials and content
• Leads and guides the team on configuration and management of cyclical technology enabled business processes
• Oversee the work production of more junior colleagues in the team and the support of their development
• Engage with Workday community to understand system capabilities and recommend solutions to address business needs

• Strong technical understanding of People systems and their integrations with other system applications
• Experience of Workday within a medium/large complex organisation, ideally in a law firm
• Deep expertise in Workday, with expert/advanced technical configuration and business process experience in Absence and Time Tracking (essential).
• Good understanding of other HR modules, namely Recruitment, Talent, HCM, Compensation, Security, Data, Reporting & Analytics, EIBs (desirable)
• Ability to lead as a technical expert with hands‑on experience in Workday configuration; from gathering requirements, design, development, testing, resolving issues efficiently, and end‑to‑end solution delivery.
• In‑depth functional knowledge of end‑to‑end People processes
• Ability to translate business requirements into systems solutions and translate complex concepts into clear and actionable steps
• Excellent organisational, planning and project management skills
• Highly effective communication skills and ability to influence across a global team, lead…