Overview

Job Location:
GB-London-UK-Virtual-40

Our story 

At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to “Be Alight.” 

 

Our Values: 

Champion People – be empathetic and help create a place where everyone belongs. 

Grow with purpose – Be inspired by our higher calling of improving lives. 

Be Alight – act with integrity, be real and empower others. 

 

It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. Our team’s expertise in human insights and cloud technology gives companies and employees around the world the ability to power confident decisions, for life.  

  

With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work. 

  

Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight. 

  

Learn more at careers.alight.com.  

 

THE ROLE

Alight Solutions are currently recruiting for a Workday Senior Consultant within our Cloud Optimisation Practice area. We have an ever expanding business pipeline in EMEA and are seeking suitably skilled and interested candidates to help us build our practice in line with the growth of the Workday ecosystem in Europe.

As a Workday Functional Consultant you will play a key role as part of an industry-leading team, helping to drive results for our clients by delivering innovative and effective solutions within our Professional Services business group.

Location is primarily home-based or office based (depending on the area), with travel to client sites (up to 25%)

Our Values: Champion people, Grow with purpose and Be Alight

THE RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Become a hands-on subject matter expert in Workday HCM and (ideally) Compensation, specializing and deepening your skill set within one or more functional areas
  • Work closely with the client to understand their post go-live requirements to design, build, configure and test the Workday solution, with support from the Lead Functional Consultant on your team
  • Play an active role in your area of expertise, a point of reference for sharing knowledge and information with colleagues, collaborating to improve internal capability, including training and mentoring of new team members
  • Build an excellent rapport with Cloud Optimisation clients, guiding and assisting them on getting the most from their Workday deployment
  • Develop strong and trusting relationships with other members of the project team and management as well as external clients
  • Bring insights from your product and industry knowledge, by being innovative and keeping well informed on HR and Financials business landscape
  • Understand and apply Workday and Alight methodologies
  • Contribute to Alight’s financial performance by delivering excellence to our clients and managing your work on several concurrent projects

THE REQUIREMENTS

  • Excellent oral and written communications skills – fully fluent English is a pre-requisite for this role. Fluent in Spanish, French or Italian will be a plus.
  • Advanced analytical and functional skills evidenced by playing a role in projects or in a support environment
  • Workday HCM and (ideally) Compensation certificate
  • Exposure to the maintenance and enhancement of HR Systems (post go-live)
  • Exposure to the deployment of HR Systems (Ideally Workday or alternatively, PeopleSoft, Oracle or similar applications)
  • Consultancy experience of HR processes is desirable
  • Excellent presentation and facilitation skills, a clear ability to ‘consult’ for and with your clients
  • Experience of confidently managing stakeholders
  • Evidence of collaboration and contribution in your previous work environments
  • Ideally, experience working on multiple concurrent projects
  • Ideally, experience playing a key role in virtual teams
  • Ability to act with integrity
  • Able to self-manage confidently, with good personal productivity and self-motivation

Flexible Working  

So that you can be your best at work and home, we consider flexible working arrangements wherever possible.  Alight has been a leader in the flexible workspace and “Top 100 Company for Remote Jobs” 5 years in a row. 

 

Benefits 

We offer programs and plans for a healthy mind, body, wallet and life because it’s important our benefits care for the whole person. Options include a variety of health coverage options, wellbeing and support programs, retirement, vacation and sick leave, maternity, paternity & adoption leave, continuing education and training as well as a number of voluntary benefit options.   

 

By applying for a position with Alight, you understand that, should you be made an offer, it will be contingent on your undergoing and successfully completing a background check consistent with Alight’s employment policies. Background checks may include some or all the following based on the nature of the position: SSN/SIN validation, education verification, employment verification, and criminal check, search against global sanctions and government watch lists, credit check, and/or drug test.  You will be notified during the hiring process which checks are required by the position. 

We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.
 

Pay Transparency Statement: Alight considers a variety of factors in determining whether to extend an offer of employment and in setting the appropriate compensation level, including, but not limited to, a candidate’s experience, education, certification/credentials, market data, internal equity, and geography. Alight makes these decisions on an individualized, non-discriminatory basis. Bonus and/or incentive eligibility are determined by role and level. Alight also offers a comprehensive benefits package; for specific details on our benefits package, please visit: https://bit.ly/Alight_Benefits

DISCLAIMER:

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.

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