Workday Specialist

Workday Specialist

Department: People Team

Type: Contract – 7 Months

Location: Toronto (hybrid)

Posting Date: January 6, 2025

At OPTrust, paying pensions today, preserving pensions for tomorrow is our mission and business.

When you choose OPTrust, you join a team of smart, talented people who fuel our success and have a passion for pensions. Everyone at OPTrust – in Toronto, London and Sydney – makes a meaningful impact. Our culture is driven by team members with different backgrounds and perspectives creating an inclusive and fulfilling place to work for everyone. We work in a fast-paced environment, but we find time to have fun and give back to the community.

What OPTrust Offers You

• Unique culture rooted in our core values – collaboration and teamwork, integrity, respect, flexibility, excellence and continuous improvement.
• A purpose-driven environment where we all work towards the common goal of paying pensions today and preserving pensions for tomorrow.
• A flexible, hybrid work model.
• Comprehensive benefits focused on your health and wellness.
• Optional membership in our world-class defined benefit pension plan.
• A dedicated inclusion, diversity and equity strategy with meaningful opportunities to participate, including our employee-led resource groups

About the role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Workday Specialist to join our team. As a Workday Specialist, you’ll work in a team to implement org-wide Workday solutions that will shape how OPTrust uses technology to automate and streamline processes. You will build relationships not only within the People Team, but across the organization as you partner with various departments. In this role, you will be reporting to the Senior Manager, HR Technology and Operations, and work alongside one other Workday Specialist, as a team of three.

What you’ll do

• Lead as the primary Workday partner for all configuration needs relating to HCM, Absence, Time Tracking, Benefits for Canada, Recruiting, Talent & Performance, Learning and Reporting.
• Serve as the secondary Workday partner for configuration related to Workday Payroll for Canada, Advanced Compensation and Reporting.
• Design and maintain Workday system configuration to align with current and future business processes and update/create new configurations as the business evolves.
• Work with subject matter experts to understand requirements and business processes and configure and test them in Workday. Includes ensuring correct security assignment.
• Design and configure system reports and dashboards in Workday by collaborating with the senior leaders and people managers to understand reporting needs.
• Manage and monitor the Workday inbox for any employee related inquiries and action, as needed. This also includes addressing any functionality and configuration requests and troubleshooting any inquiries and escalating to Workday customer support, as required.
• Design and evaluate future state enhancements to business processes, configuration and/or reports within Workday. This includes managing the overall end-to-end flow of HR data across multiple systems and functions.
• Maintain user guides for Workday to ensure that documentation is up-to-date and that process steps are relevant for employees.

What you bring

• Existing and current Workday Pro certifications related to HCM, reporting and/or security.
• 3-5 years of experience implementing or configuring HCM experience with experience in multiple functional areas such as Benefits, Absence, Time Tracking, Recruiting, Talent & Performance, Learning and Reporting.
• Proven analytical skills and the ability to translate business requirements into system configurations.
• Effective communication, with the ability to communicate with impact, credibility, and empathy.
• Proven interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team and as an individual contributor.
• Strives to look for process improvement and to create capacity across the organization.
• Detail-oriented, with a focus on accuracy and quality in all tasks.
• Exemplify OPTrust’s values: collaboration and teamwork, integrity, respect, flexibility, excellence, and continuous improvement.

Please submit your application via Workday by January 20, 2025.

Serving a membership as diverse as ours and investing in a global market means cultivating an environment that embraces inclusion, diversity, and equity in everything we do. OPTrust is an organization engaged in building on our unique and diverse strengths. We know a diversity of backgrounds, cultures, gender identities and perspectives are critical to achieving our shared goals.

If you require accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, please send a message to [email protected], or discuss your needs with the Talent Acquisition Consultant during the telephone screening. We will do our best to work with you and provide appropriate accommodation.

As an organization we’re seeking ways to respond to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Call to Action 92. We are working with the Canadian Council for Indigenous Business to build bridges with Indigenous communities and partners, and we have created an employee-led Reconciliation Working Group that will work with Indigenous experts to identify a path to reconciliation for our organization.

We thank all interested applicants, however only those under consideration will be contacted.