HR Systems Specialist

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Location: Remote, GB Birmingham, GB Bucharest, RO Papendrecht, NL Trollhattan, SE

Company: GKN Aerospace Careers

Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities.

GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet.

With over 16,000 employees across 32 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.6bn in 2025. There are no limits to where you can take your career.

We are seeking a versatile and detail-oriented HR Systems Specialist to support, maintain and continuously improve our global SAP Success Factors platform.

This is a generalist role working across multiple Success Factors modules and end-to-end HR processes, with particular responsibility for Time Off and Document Generation / Storage. The role will partner with HR, IT, business stakeholders and external providers to translate requirements into practical system solutions, resolve issues, protect data quality and deliver an effective user experience.

The role is a remote contract, with travel expectations of around once a month - these are fully expensed.

Please note that this advert will close on Tuesday 1st September 2026.

• Provide functional administration and support across the SAP Success Factors platform, working flexibly across modules and HR processes according to business priorities.
• Act as the primary HR Systems contact for Success Factors Time Off, including time types, holiday calendars, work schedules, accrual rules, workflows, permissions and associated employee and manager processes.
• Support and administer HR Document Management system.
• Configure and maintain system settings, business rules, workflows, role-based permissions, notifications, templates and reference data.
• Partner with HR process owners and regional teams to understand business needs.
• Provide Tier 2 and Tier 3 support, investigating incidents, identifying root causes and coordinating resolution with internal teams, SAP and external partners.
• Support Success Factors releases, enhancements and projects through impact assessment, test preparation, execution, defect management and production deployment.
• Monitor system processes, data quality and user experience, recommending and implementing improvements that simplify HR service delivery.
• Maintain accurate configuration records, test evidence, process documentation, support guidance and user materials.
• Support user training, communications and change adoption for new or updated functionality.
• Ensure solutions and processes meet data privacy, security, audit and records-management requirements.

Success in this role comes from a combination of experience, expertise and a proactive approach. If you can demonstrate the following experience, we'd love to hear from you.

Experience

• At least three years of hands-on experience administering, configuring or supporting SAP Success Factors in a complex organisation.
• Practical experience with Employee Central Time Off, including configuration, troubleshooting and testing of time types, calendars, work schedules and accruals.
• Experience supporting a Document Management system (Opentext / Doxis), including employee files, access controls, document classification, retention and document workflows.
• Experience with business rules, workflows, role-based permissions, data imports and system testing in Success Factors.

Knowledge

• Broad functional knowledge of Success Factors and the ability to work across multiple modules and end-to-end HR processes.
• Strong understanding of HR data, data privacy, security and governance principles.

Skills

• Analytical thinking.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and stakeholder management.
• Testing, change management and…