Senior HRIS Analyst

Job Description

At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group.

Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent.

Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society.

We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.

Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs:

• interactive investor, the UK’s second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.
• Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
• Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.

About The Role

Aberdeen’s HR Systems Squad sits within the Corporate Technology Office; this is responsible for managing Aberdeen's core HR systems with Workday being its Strategic tool of choice. Aberdeen is live with Workday Core HCM, Recruitment, Payroll, Extend, Talent and Help. We have an exciting roadmap ahead of us to further enhance our systems architecture over the next 3 years and embed and enhance ways or working.
The Senior HRIS Analyst is an expert role within the HR Systems Team and is responsible for configuring, developing and maintaining Aberdeen's Workday infrastructure.  This role will involve working closely with stakeholders across the HR function, in addition to Technology and other functional areas that are dependent on HR data. We are specifically seeking a candidate with strong practical expertise in time tracking and absence modules.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the Product Owner to deliver a Backlog view of all priorities

• Proven experience of leading the systems aspects of core projects involving scoping, design, delivery and maintenance of Workday changes and configuration.

• Providing subject matter expertise on Workday, particularly HCM, time tracking and absence

• Proactively suggest and lead systems improvements, using business requirements to inform technical design, to process configuration, security set up and testing.

• Keep up to date on new functionalities and proactively identify enhancements to current ways of working

• Ensure presence within Workday ecosystem, connecting with other customers

• Share knowledge of best practice, systems enhancements and reporting with HR

• Systems colleagues and wider HR team

• Manage complex employee and manager requests via tiered HR support model (using Workday Help)

• Ensure adherence to HR and IT systems and change governance

About The Candidate

• Substantial experience of working within the Workday ecosystem, with significant exposure to configuring and developing core Workday modules.

• Strong continuous improvement focus, with high attention to detail, the ability to work independently and across a wide range of stakeholders, and a commitment to deliver great service.

• Proven experience in configuring, maintaining and enhancing Workday processes across time tracking and absence modules

• Completion of Workday training backed up with extensive practical application, ideally covering Workday core HCM, Time Tracking and Absence

• Experience in additional Workday modules desirable.

• Expertise in Extend, integrations and reporting would be advantageous

• Able to communicate effectively to non-technical stakeholders to establish requirements and identify optimal solutions.

Our benefits

There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.

When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here.

Our business

Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here.

An inclusive way of working

Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you.

At Aberdeen we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.

An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements – for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability – please let us know and we’ll be happy to help.