Senior Consultant - Digital HR Transformation and Technology (SAP SuccessFactors)

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Organisations are having to become much more adaptable to change as they face new workforce challenges as a result of globalisation, changing demographics, emerging technology, innovation and regulatory demands.

We believe the People Agenda is at the heart of successful change. EY People Advisory Services (PAS) help organisations to put humans at the centre of their transformation agenda enabling them to align culture and leadership to their purpose, develop necessary skillsets and mindsets, and build adaptability through continuous change and learning.

We are a global network with more than 11,000 employees in more than 130 countries, offering deep industry knowledge and experience to more than 2,000 corporate clients worldwide. Within the UK, we have over 330 consultants advising clients across the private, public and not-for-profit sectors on their most challenging workforce problems.

We are growing fast and looking for those, who share our values, believe in the importance of the people agenda and have experience in organisation and workforce transformation and transactions, change experience and learning, culture and leadership, digital HR, rewards and people mobility, to join us in PAS.

The opportunity

Our Digital HR Transformation and Technology offering is one of our key growth areas within PAS, focusing on assisting our clients to navigate the Digital HR agenda, all in service of the employee experience. This covers optimising the HR function to better serve the enterprise, defining the optimum HR operating models including leveraging HRIS, cloud-based solutions, IA and emerging technologies. We are looking for both experienced candidates across the public and private sector.

As a member of our Digital HR Transformation and Technology team, you will join a talented group of professionals that help clients in a number of areas. Our focus is on achieving business outcomes for our clients as opposed to simply delivering a technical answer.

Your Key Responsibilities

We are now seeking an experienced SuccessFactors consultant with HR advisory and transformation experience.

As a Senior Consultant, you will be a key resource on large-scale technology enabled HR transformation related projects. In this role, you should be able to deliver quality client service, deliver insightful solutions and balance multiple priorities. You will also be expected to have excellent communication skills, integrate into new teams, and rapidly establish relationships. More specifically, the successful candidate should demonstrate:

• Manage senior stake holders, provide constructive challenge and robust advice to the senior management including C-suite
• Ability deliver, manage and execute full life cycle HR technology and service delivery transformation programs
• Ability to consider the broader business context and implications and not just the immediate challenge or task in hand when advising clients
• Good insight of the market and purchasing trends with a demonstrated track record of building lasting client relationships
• Ability to identify and build new opportunities and client relationships
• Support project team(s), work streams and workforce optimisation interventions in a broad range of industry sectors
• Support the development of detailed implementation roadmaps, development of risk mitigation and governance plans, budget planning and managing of project reporting
• Ability to help clients solve complex business problems using analytical skills to provide supporting evidence and appropriate rationale
  
  

Skills And Attributes For Success

• Be professional, quickly establishing personal credibility and demonstrating expertise
• Have strong personal impact and resilience, and be able to influence and persuade clients and stakeholders to gain assist for major changes and key decisions
• Take a practical approach to solving issues and gaining client agreement
• Be able to analyse complex problems and to deliver insightful, practical and sustainable solutions
• Be skilled in facilitating and encouraging collaboration amongst team members
• Be confident and effective in recognising and managing potential issues during client assignments
  
  

To qualify for the role you must have

You will have already achieved outstanding personal success in your current job and established yourself as an experienced management consultant, HR Technologist and/or IT professional with design, implementation and operational experience in a number of the following areas:

• Two or more years of SuccessFactors experience across the complete lifecycle from concept through execution and ongoing operations
• Ideally Certified in at least 1 SuccessFactors Module
• Track record of responding to client needs with compelling proposals, delivering business value in a market-competitive manner
• Experience supporting large scale HR Transformation solution design and delivery
• Experience working with onshore and offshore teams
• A customer-focused approach to work, and the ability to translate often-complex requirements into decisive digital platform strategies
• The confidence to build lasting relationships and influence senior colleagues and clients from a wide range of backgrounds
• A flair for identifying, assessing and recommending opportunities to grow our client base
  
  

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Relevant professional experience, including for example previous work with a Big 4, global management consultancy firm, niche consultancy or performed an in-house role in which you gained exposure to a large-scale project(s)
• Have a primary degree and relevant post-graduate qualification
  
  

What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes assistance for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. As a purpose driven organisation, we are also proud to offer multiple opportunities to volunteer with our global corporate responsibility programme – EY Ripples.

Plus, we offer:

• Coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Access to a range of client projects
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• Flexibility within a truly diverse and inclusive organisation
  
  

About EY

EY is a global professional services organisation providing consulting, assurance, tax and transaction services. We are dedicated to doing our part in building a better working world for our people, our clients and our communities. And we are united by our shared values and a dedication to delivering exceptional client service

We make sure our people succeed. The networks you build and the experiences you have with us will help define and accelerate the rest of your career. Last year in the UK, nearly 2,000 of our people were promoted or progressed within their grade, and we are significantly increasing the number of partners in the UK. So, when you build something better at EY, we make sure you’re rewarded.

Our People Advisory Services practice has over 10,000 practitioners operating within a globally integrated team, bringing their skills, insights and experience to support our clients.

Driven by our focused insight and innovation, PAS is best positioned to advise and influence our client’s activities at senior leadership level to respond to the scale and complexity of how and where our clients work globally, making us the trusted advisor of choice to our clients and creating more opportunities for our people. As a result, we’re continually seeking new markets, new perspectives and better ways to deliver value.

EY is dedicated to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

To meet our ongoing commitment of doing the right thing for our people, our clients and our firm - and to continue playing our role in the national effort against Coronavirus, our consultants are all now working from home unless office working is critical to their role or wellbeing.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Make your mark.

Apply now.