Workday Functional Design Manager - Los Angeles, United States - USC

USC

Verified Company

Los Angeles, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

USC is seeking a
Workday Functional Design Manager to join the HR Systems and Operation teams within the Human Resources, Equity and Compliance organization.

This position will report directly to the Director, HR Systems.

The individual in this role will be responsible for managing the HR systems that provides functional and technical administration and support for all HR workstreams across the university.

This role will set the strategy for HR system functional design, including resource planning and project management to improve HR activities.

This role will manage a team of senior HRIS analysts, providing leadership and creative direction, defining business analysis strategy, and optimizing efficiency and effectiveness.

The Workday Functional Design Manager will drive continuous system improvement by leading technical projects, identifying enhancement opportunities, and establishing surveys and metrics to monitor success and report on the team's progress.

This role will help enable USC's vision while promoting USC's culture and values.

Responsibilities:

Collaborating with administrative and academic units in business planning activities to align HR systems and deliver excellent customer service. Enabling opportunities for functional teams to deeply understand their customers and stakeholders. Overseeing and enabling collaborations with stakeholders across the university to design and document business processes for HR systems.
Providing leadership by coaching and developing a team of senior HRIS professionals. Leading the education and training for teammates to ensure the design and delivery HRIS systems is aligned with organization's vision and goals. Leading by example by demonstrating ethics and high accountability and actively driving the process of embedding ITS values and behaviors. Creating a culture of trust and transparency. Driving bestinclass customer service to USC through effective team member engagement.
Managing the implications of security and compliance guidelines by embedding university policies and procedures into HR system work plans and workflows. Partnering closely with customers to relay the importance of and sensitivity around risk identification, mitigation, and remediation. Establishing governance for functional design through the implementation of standards, procedures, and quality measures. Driving and overseeing the execution of the functional design service portfolio.
Partnering closely with HR and university leadership to identify, implement, and support cost

- effective, leading solutions for all aspects of HR system functional design by maintaining currency with industry innovations, providing thought leadership around process optimization.

Maintaining awareness and knowledge of current changes within legal, regulatory, and technology environments which may affect operations. Ensuring senior management and staff are informed of any changes and updates in a timely manner. Overseeing and validating the development and implementation of HRIS platforms. Maintaining industry knowledge regarding HR systems developments and changes. Defining and managing the methods and procedures required to satisfy stakeholder requirements and goals. Driving continuous improvement by establishing surveys and metrics to monitor success. Monitoring and reporting on the progress of the team\Developing trusting, credible relationships from demonstrated ethical judgment, behavior, and practiced confidentiality related to HR system administration. Promoting an environment that fosters inclusive relationships and creating unbiased opportunities for contributions through ideas, words, and actions that uphold principles of the USC Code of Ethics.
Promoting contributions toward immediate and longterm goals. Providing clarity or realignment direction regarding scope, expectations, prioritization, and other factors that influence goals. Demonstrating, through words, actions, and ideas, alignment to USC's strategic plan and the HR organization's strategic plan. Enabling the university to fulfill its academic and people missions through enhanced HR service.
Performing other related responsibilities as requested and when necessary. The university reserves the right to add or change duties at any time.

Preferred Qualifications:

Advanced degree in information technology, human resources, business administration, statistics, mathematics, computer science, communication, or another related field.
Ten or more years of experience in one or more of the following fields: information technology, HRIS administration, data analytics.
Four or more years of experience leading teams in a management or leadership role.
Eight or more years of experience managing or administering deployments in the Workday HCM suite.
Experience with Workday Integrations, Workday Studio and Workday Extend (Workday Cloud Platform).
Experience in higher education.
Experience working clo