• Deep understanding and expertise in Workday functionalities, including various modules such as HCM, Compensation, Talent, etc.

• Proven experience in product management, including defining product roadmaps, prioritizing features, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products.

• Ability to lead and motivate cross-functional teams, influence stakeholders, and drive consensus in a global organization.

• Strategic mindset with the ability to identify trends, customer needs, and gaps to inform product strategy and direction.

• Strong understanding of HR, Workday, and related business areas to effectively translate customer requirements into product features and enhancements.

• Comfortable with technical concepts and able to work closely with engineering teams to understand system architecture, feasibility of features, and technical constraints.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate product vision, strategy, and requirements to internal teams, customers, and stakeholders.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to analyze data, interpret metrics, and make data-driven decisions to optimize product performance and user experience.

• Customer-centric mindset with a passion for understanding customer needs and delivering solutions that exceed expectations.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

• Initiate and lead conversations with teams, clients and stakeholders to build trust. Navigate the complexities of cross-border teams / and or diverse teams and engagement technical knowledge of Workday and specifically areas of COE partnerships.

• Anticipate Stakeholder needs and develop solutions to drive efficiencies.

• Nurture relationships with key HR partners to understand strategic roadmaps as well as emergent needs; management of both expectations and work to deliver solutions on time and within resource constraints.

• Successfully prioritize projects task , with primary HR business owner and other stakeholders to align to overall HR strategy. Including prioritization of work on ad hoc requests, logged defects, needed reports, and security/access tickets.

• Guide and lead optimizing configuration efforts to ensure smooth operation of Workday within assigned modules. Complete analysis of configuration in comparison to desired functionality with diagnosed gaps, roadblocks and inefficiencies.

• Provide clear and detailed documentation of functional requirements, creation of project plans, management of testing plans, organizational change and socialization initiatives.

• Provide an accountable and flexible project management approach that ensures the key issues of cost, time, scope and above all, client satisfaction, can be realized.

• Familiarizes myself with upcoming Workday release functionality and explores ways to utilize new features that will add efficiencies to the COE they support.

• Offer duties as assigned.

• Lead team members in the vendor selection, testing, and implementation of large scale HRIS projects

• Coach and mentor team members when troubleshooting and resolving technical or business process deficiencies

• Acted as Workday implementation lead for core compensation, incentive compensation, and talent management modules

• Responsible for maintaining Security and completing quarterly and annual audits for all HR Systems to mitigate risk and ensure compliance

• Assist in prioritization of team projects and resources using Agile Methodologies

• Lead Analyst on complex projects working with assigned business to gather requirements, plan, design, develop, test, implement, and maintain system applications

• Responsible for maintaining in-depth functional knowledge of assigned systems and modules to assist end users with questions and issues when building out system functionality

• Implemented new software, system upgrades, enhancements, and customizations for HR systems

• Maintain inbound and outbound integrations from HR Database for both internal system owners and vendors

• Assisted with conversion and data migration activities related to acquisitions

• Functioned as lead for analyzing, testing, and implementing PeopleSoft bundles and patches to reduce security vulnerabilities and leverage newly developed functionality

• Lead Analyst on complex projects working with assigned business to gather requirements, plan,

design, develop, test, implement, and maintain system applications

• Responsible for maintaining in-depth functional knowledge of assigned systems and modules to assist

end users with questions and issues when building out system functionality

• Implemented new software, system upgrades, enhancements, and customizations for HR systems

• Maintain inbound and outbound integrations from HR Database for both internal system owners and

vendors

• Assisted with conversion and data migration activities related to acquisitions

• Functioned as lead for analyzing, testing, and implementing PeopleSoft bundles and patches to

reduce security vulnerabilities and leverage newly developed functionality

• Developed understanding of relevant business processes to assist in designing enhancements, fixes, and support of HR Systems

• Functioned as lead and project manager for upgrade of recruiting system

• Assisted with reporting and enhancements of LMS & Integrations