With eleven offices across the United States, 450+ professionals and 350+ staff professionals, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP is a multidisciplinary, integrated national professional services firm known for quality and an extraordinary commitment to clients. The Firm’s groundbreaking approach—bringing together legal services, advocacy and business strategy—differentiates Manatt from its competitors and positions the Firm to provide a unique and compelling value proposition.
In this role, the Human Resources (HR) Workday Administrator will lead our HR team, other internal business partners, and Firm management in all aspects of development, preservation, and functionality of the Workday HCM system. In addition, this person is encouraged to take a meaningful role in the design, implementation, deployment, and documentation of key HR projects that leverage the Workday platform or related third-party vendor applications. The HR Workday Administrator can be based in any of our locations.
Responsibilities
Serve as the Workday HCM system expert and primary point-of-contact for day-to-day support of business processes, integrations, reporting, and dashboards to ensure consistent, high-quality business operations.
Partner, strategize and lead discussions with the HR team and other internal stakeholders to define business requirements, implement, test, validate and deploy additional HCM modules, make changes to business processes, integrations and calculated fields as needed.
Document business requirements, decisions, business processes, and workflows in relevant documentation, including SOP’s, training guides and quick reference guides.
Develop advanced system reporting and analytics to enable our HR business partners to identify trends and to empower leadership decision-making.
Collaborate with the Information Technology team to manage security re-assignments, user access and permissions, and integration-related security issues.
Conduct testing and provide support for Workday system updates or upgrades.
Stay up-to-date on Workday features and enhancements that could benefit the organization.
Identify system gaps and deficiencies, and if applicable, suggest standard methodologies or process improvements to help fill those gaps.
Conduct long-term improvement projects to ensure compatibility with the company's evolving business applications landscape and needs.
Develop strong trusted advisor relationships with key client partners to advise and influence business direction and change efforts.
Help connect dots across the company, ensuring communication flow between multiple functions and operating mechanisms. Coordinate with Firm IT to resolve application issues.
Apply project principles to effectively roll out process improvement solutions and new process optimization enterprise standards.
Keep a pulse on our business, maintain a strong feedback loop on organizational needs, and update the CHRO and CIO as needed.
Requirements
Minimum of 5+ years of HRIS experience with at least 3+ years of Workday experience required
Strong , recent hands-on configuration knowledge and experience of Workday HCM Core and other modules including, Benefits, Advanced Compensation, Talent & Performance Management, Recruiting, ADP Payroll and Time & Absence modules
Strong Workday Reporting including Sophisticated Reports, Matrix and composite reports
Understand Workday security and controls to successfully handle and maintain security and roles
Understanding of HR operations and experience in employee data management
Experience working with confidential information and critical business operations and processes
High attention to detail and high priority matters
Flexibility to adapt to changing business requirements or objectives
Ability to work independently and proactively
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced work environment with strict timelines and delivery dates
Must be customer service focused with a demonstrated track record of delivering an excellent experience
Fluent in English, both verbal and written with good communication and social skills, including the ability to set clear expectations with partners and raise issues as needed
Must have ability to travel when necessary
Bachelor's Degree (preferably in a Technology-related field)
Workday Certifications from a Workday Partner or Workday Pro Certification is a plus
Advanced skills in MS Outlook, Word, Power Point and Excel
Work experience at a company that has implemented both Workday HCM and Payroll a plus
The base annual pay range for this role is between $95,000-$175,000. The base pay to be offered will vary and depend on skills and qualifications, experience, location and will also take into account internal equity. A full range of medical, financial and/or other benefits dependent on the position will also be offered.
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