Workday Consultant

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Our people love the exciting and meaningful work they do, the cutting-edge resources and technology they have access to, the benefits we offer and the great community we’ve built. Want to join them?

Our vision is to create a world-class product capability for Kainos, fuelled by a diverse range of highly talented and motivated professionals working collaboratively and innovatively to ensure we continue our growth trajectory. We do this via an open and supportive environment where colleagues can share information, learn from one another, and excel in their own career.

We have recently launched a Smart Audit for Workday and have several other new Products about to launch. This is an exciting time for everyone, and this success has meant we need to scale our product capability to meet demand for our current and new product lines as they come to market.

The Workday Product Consultant (Trainee) position will see the successful candidate given the support and flexibility to shape and frame the architecture of our Smart product suite, initially focusing on the successful Kainos Smart Audit product set. In the near future, as our client base grows, there will also be an opportunity to work closely with customers in a more consulting capacity to support the development of our Smart Audit services capability.

This role is a fantastic opportunity to become a key member of one of the UK’s leading SaaS companies, at a time of growth for our Smart product suite. Would you like to join us?

Role Description

Responsibilities of Workday Product Consultant (Trainee) will be to work closely with our product team, customers and prospects with the support from the Smart Solution Architect to help shape the long-term product roadmap and ensure that all Workday product solutions created are scalable for the future.

The role-holder will have the opportunity and support to build their expertise and will be expected to:

• Develop expert level knowledge of (Training will be provided):
• Workday products such as HCM/Financials/Payroll
• Workday security models as well as any specialist capability
• Design, create and performance test Workday custom reports as required
• Design solutions, ensuring alignment with requirements agreed with stakeholders
• Ensure that major design decisions are both impact and risk assessed, trade-offs captured and rationale for the final decisions recorded
• Produce high-level solution design documentation (‘just enough’ documentation approach) ensuring that all stakeholders have a shared understanding of what is to be built, deployed, run and monitored.
• Ensure solutions developed adhere to existing Kainos design principals and standards.
• Provide training and mentoring and support to other colleagues so that they can quickly and effectively develop to the Audit solutions as specified
• Excellent communication skills are vital. You’ll need to be a persuasive and effective communicator with strong consultative skills. It’s not only about talking, you’ll need to be able to listen, understand, and build on other’s viewpoints. You will have an enthusiasm for new technologies and innovation and be prepared to take advantage of the flexibility provided to challenge and be proactive in bringing new ideas to how we work and to the product roadmap
  

Although we are currently working on a virtual/flexible base, in the future the role holder will need to be flexible to travel if required to customer and partner locations worldwide.

In the near future, for the right person, the role could evolve to include additional customer-facing consulting type aspects. This would include engaging with customers to support design and implementation of Audit solutions to meet their specific need and/or to help them mature towards best practice: Review business context for solutions to company challenges as well as defining the vision and requirements for the solution, recommending potential options, (which may include RFIs, RFPs or prototype development), selecting the most optimal option, and the development of a roadmap for the selected solution.

Minimum (Essential) Requirements

• Technically creative with the ability to clearly communicate the complexities of technical programs
• Proficiency with information technologies in a secure environment, relating to data governance, reporting, analytics
• Good communicator, you will be willing to assume a customer facing role, with the ability to communicate effectively with colleagues and clients
• Capable of working within teams and alongside customers, as well as on your individual tasks with limited supervision. Able to manage your time effectively and record it accurately
• Able to apply all relevant standards and procedures to your own work, maintaining high quality and accuracy at all times
• Aware of the importance of confidentiality and non-disclosure policies and/or agreements and ensure security of information at all times
• Able, if required, to travel to customer sites in the same region (minimal out of region travel may also be required)
• Commercial understanding of utilisation within a services organisation and the importance of these targets
  

Desirable

• Basic understanding of Human Resource, Financials, or Payroll operations and/or software integrations
• Experience working in a SaaS product environment.
  

About Kainos Smart Audit: Our cloud-based automated tools, Kainos Smart Test and Smart Audit, are truly unique, they are the only products that have been built exclusively for testing and auditing Workday. Kainos Smart Audit offers Workday customers a robust automated compliance tool that immediately reduces risk, provides greater control, and ensures transparency. Using Smart Audit, our clients are saving thousands of hours, reducing risk, and gaining much greater assurance on the correctness and compliance of their Workday deployment.

Who You Are

Our vision is to enable outstanding people to create digital solutions that have a positive impact on people’s lives. Our values aren’t abstract; they are the behaviours we expect from each other every day and underpin everything that we do. We expect everyone to display our values by being determined in how obstacles are overcome; honest when dealing with others; respectful of how you treat others; creative to find solutions to complex problems and cooperative by sharing information, knowledge and experience. These values, applied collectively, help to produce an outstanding Kainos person, team and culture.

We’re an inclusive bunch at Kainos and we believe in equal opportunity. We welcome applications from all walks of life, including those with criminal records. Everyone who is offered a position here undergoes a basic background check , however no one is treated differently due to their background where it isn’t relevant to the role. It’s important to note - failure to reveal information which is relevant to the position sought, could result in us having to withdraw the conditional offer of employment.

In short: Having a criminal record will not exclude you from a career with Kainos. This depends entirely on the nature and requirements of the position, together with the circumstances and background of offences. Kainos has a policy on the recruitment of ex-offenders (available on request).