Workday Governance Specialist - 12 Month FTC - Vice President

Posted:
8/12/2024, 5:00:00 PM

Location(s):
England, United Kingdom ⋅ London, England, United Kingdom

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
People & HR

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the 7th largest financial group in the world. Across the globe, we’re 120,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

OVERVIEW OF THE DEPARTMENT/SECTION

The Workday Governance team in EMEA are part of a larger global Workday Governance team at MUFG.  The regional EMEA team provide Workday support to our employees; managers and HR Centre of Excellence in all EMEA regions for Bank and Securities.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE 

  • To serve as a subject matter expert for the Security module in Workday
  • Leads and manages the specified Workday module throughout the systems lifecycle
  • Is an advocate for Workday being the golden source of employee information and continuously seeks ways in which the system can be optimised/enhanced
  • To be an active participant/member of the global governance structure that underpins the controls within the tenant

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Create and update security policies, domains, segmented security, role based and user based roles
  • Lead the validation, vetting of all roles and respective security group assignments
  • Maintain end user access in the Workday system  
  • Assist users with security-related issues, troubleshoot and access problems, and provide guidance on security best practice
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to define security roles, access controls, and permission sets, ensuring the appropriate level of data security and segregation duties
  • Proactively identify and address any potential compliance issues related to data access, data retention and data sharing
  • Continuously monitor and assess security controls, identifying areas for improvement and implementing necessary changes
  • Serves as a subject matter expert liaising with regional counterparts to support the global platform following a defined global governance structure
  • As part of a team composed of global and local Workday specialist, technology and HR function stakeholders this role will help guide, lead and design security enhancements
  • Identifies opportunities for process improvements and proposes solutions
  • Acts as an internal consultant regarding system capabilities, providing recommendations via effective communications to stakeholders
  • Provide user support and training
  • Updates and maintains documentation

WORK EXPERIENCE

Essential:

  • Advanced knowledge in Workday Security
  • Workday experience in HCM and Workday Recruit
  • EIB experience


Preferred:

  • Any other Workday module experience

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Functional / Technical Competencies:

Essential

  • Advanced knowledge of HRIS
  • Good working knowledge of Workday, ideally in a complex multi entity and multinational organisation
  • Subject matter expertise of HR business processes; ability to document processes and generate clear and concise business requirements for non-technical audiences
  • Ability to identify and articulate options to stakeholders and influence decisions based on facts and analysis
  • Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
  • Understanding of GDPR and local EMEA data legislations

MUFG operate a hybrid working model with 3 days per week in the office

We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements.

MUFG is committed to embracing diversity and building an inclusive culture where all employees are valued, respected and their opinions count. We support the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion in recruitment and employment, and oppose all forms of discrimination on the grounds of age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy and maternity, race, gender reassignment, religion or belief and marriage or civil partnership.

We make our recruitment decisions in a non-discriminatory manner in accordance with our commitment to identifying the right skills for the right role and our obligations under the law.