Workday Solution Specialist

Pay Range: €51000 - €62000

 

Job purpose

Johnson Matthey IT (JM IT) is Johnson Matthey’s global IT function responsible for ensuring that our IT capabilities are not only able to support and integrate technologies but can also work alongside our business units and Corporate functions to provide leadership and direction to provide competitive edge and improved operating efficiencies.

As Workday Solution Specialist, you’ll play a critical role in providing in-depth functional development, and ongoing support and maintenance for Workday, ensuring that current and future business requirements are adding value and are fully delivered.  You will also provide in-depth process support to the business analysts when scoping requirements to ensure optimal value delivery exploiting best practice solutions. 

As Workday Solution Specialist, you will help drive our goals by: 

• Configure and enhance Workday Compensation, Advanced Compensation, Time Tracking, and Absence business processes based on approved functional designs
• Implement Workday configuration changes using best practices, ensuring accuracy, auditability, and maintainability
• Support configuration related to eligibility rules, plans, calculations, accruals, calendars, and validation rules
• Ensure configurations align with global standards while enabling local regulatory requirements
• Maintain transparent status updates and contribute to sprint ceremonies
• Act as a system owner for Compensation and Time modules from an IT perspective
• Investigate and resolve production issues, including configuration defects, business process interruptions, and calculation errors
• Perform root‑cause analysis and implement sustainable fixes
• Monitor system health and support periodic audits and compliance reviews
• Testing, Validation, and Release Support
• Execute unit testing and support system, regression, and user acceptance testing
• Validate calculations, eligibility logic, and data accuracy across scenarios
• Support Workday releases by assessing impacts, applying required changes, and validating post‑release stability
• Identify opportunities to simplify configuration, reduce manual work, and improve system performance
• Maintain clear documentation of configurations, dependencies, and operational procedures

Key skills that will help you succeed in this role:   

• Hands‑on experience configuring Workday, with focus on Compensation and/or Time & Attendance

• Experience supporting Workday in a live production environment

• Understanding of HR processes related to pay, time, and absence.

• Background working in Agile or iterative delivery environments, using tools such as Jira to manage technical work, tasks, and documentation. Previous experience collaborating with cross‑functional business and IT teams to deliver system enhancements or projects.

• Ability to write clear, structured documentation. 

• Fluent in English 

What we offer:
We make sure salaries are fair, competitive and aligned to individual roles, experience and responsibilities. For this position our salary range is from 51,000 to 62,000 EUR per annum (gross). We are also supportive of hybrid and flexible working and where applicable, offer life, medical and other benefits that support our employees’ financial and physical wellbeing, such as:

• Health & Well-being: a diverse, inclusive, work & life balance work environment; hybrid way of working; health insurance from the first day of employment; employee assistance program.

• Life, accidents & critical diseases insurance.

• 25 days of paid vacation leave.

• IIIrd Pillar Pension Fund contributions.

• Paid volunteering opportunities (2 days per year).

• Great career growth and development opportunities in a global organization.

How to apply:
If you have the necessary skills and experience to join our team, please apply online.  For any queries or should you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application please let your recruiter know when they contact you.

If you are already a Johnson Matthey Employee, please visit the internal careers site to apply:  Find Jobs - Workday (myworkday.com)

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