Workday Recruiting - Business Systems Consultant

Travelers • Hartford, CT

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About The Position

Travelers is seeking a Workday Recruiting Business Systems Consultant to join our organization as we grow and transform our HR Technology landscape. This role will primarily be aligned to Workday Recruiting and will require the candidate to collaborate with stakeholders across HR and HR Technology team in the prioritization of change requests, understand business needs, define requirements, configure, test and implement based on user or system design specifications. This role should have in-depth knowledge of the Workday Recruiting domain and be able to consult on the numerous touchpoints, and dependencies, between Workday Recruiting and the other Core modules (HCM, Talent Management, and Third-Party Integrations). This job typically acts as a team lead, and provides direction, coaching and mentoring to less experienced team members. Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. The company does not sponsor/support H-1B petitions, TN, or Forms I-983/STEM OPT, for this role.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Three years of experience supporting business technology systems.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Business, MIS, or other related field, preferred.
• 5+ years of experience supporting business technology systems; Workday preferred.
• Strong understanding of how other HR functional areas interact with Recruiting required.
• Workday Configuration, including full-cycle implementations.
• Business Perspective (Advanced): Uses knowledge of internal and external factors impacting the property casualty industry to make decisions.
• Technology (Intermediate): Uses, leverages and maintains proficiency with corporate and job specific technology as it evolves (e.g., hardware, software, business unit applications and systems tools).
• Analytical Thinking (Intermediate): Identifies current or future problems or opportunities, analyzes, synthesize and compares information to understand issues, identifies cause/effect relationships and explores alternative solutions to support sound decision making.
• Relationship Management (Intermediate): Seeks out, builds, fosters and maintains productive relationships, networks or alliances to meet goals and achieve results.
• Communication (Intermediate): Demonstrates effective verbal, written, and listening communication skills.
• Facilitation (Intermediate): Uses and adjusts style and technique to assist group process and understanding.
• Teamwork (Intermediate): Works together in situations when actions are interdependent and a team is mutually responsible to produce a result.
• Conflict Management (Intermediate): Brings conflicts into the open and resolves them collaboratively.
• Change Management / Resilience (Intermediate): Remains energized and focused in the face of ambiguity, change or strenuous demands.
• Risk Taking (Intermediate): Identifies, assesses, manages and takes intelligent risks to attain objectives.

Responsibilities

• Lead in the Workday Recruiting module to include best practices for the system architecture from concept through requirements, design, configure, test, deploy and on-going maintenance.
• Utilizes business and system knowledge to support business needs.
• Understands the political nature of the organization and works appropriately within it; effectively establishes collaborative relationships and alliances throughout the organization.
• Applies knowledge of a particular business capability, product and/or system domain and communication impact of changes to current state business process, products, data, feeds and systems.
• May participate in departmental or divisional planning process, Provides subject matter expertise and capabilities to Business and IT Projects.
• Helps identify appropriate subject matter experts and stakeholders to participate in requirements sessions.
• Evaluates requests for projects and enhancements. May make recommendations for operational process improvements and/or system enhancements.
• Elicits documents and validates requirements for change requests and enhancements to capabilities, products or systems
• May act as project manager for enhancements or new functionality.
• Simultaneously supports multiple projects, as assigned.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Production support/troubleshooting: Consults on troubleshooting and defect resolution. This includes requesting resources, migration through environments and ticket management.
• Responsible for change, defect and enhancement request process and assignment of approved work for team.
• Proactively communicates status of enhancements, change requests, and defects.
• Documentation and Training: Maintains documentation of current state systems. Assists in development of training materials and business implementation/transition activities.

Benefits

• Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members – including spouses, domestic partners, and children – are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
• Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
• Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
• Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health program provides access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs.
• Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED