Position: Application Specialist People Systems
Company: GeeksForLess
Category: HR
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

Job Summary
The Application Specialist People Systems configures People Systems supporting a number of different modules. The Application Specialist People Systems researches, designs, documents, maintains and implements new functionalities in People Systems like Workday focusing on user experience, and best practices. Responsible for implementing scalable and secure configurations in Workday along with resolving incidents raised by the Business owners. Proactively monitors new features released by Workday and identifies and promotes changes to improve System design and user experience.

Key Responsibilities
Support with Workday Tenant Management
Solve incidents for People Applications prioritizing based on customer impact
Works on Action Requests prioritizing based on customer impact
Reach out to Senior Application Specialist for Critical escalations
Collaborate with the colleagues in Application team, Technical team and Tech Solutions
Provide application support to Booking.com for People Systems applications
Provide estimation of projects and enhancements for complex configuration changes
Configures business requirements into Workday configuration and setup in a scalable, easy to use, efficient and secure way.
Prepare Documentation to support Compliance and SOx needs for every change deployed.
Communicate and manage application security breach and prepare RCA (Root Cause Analysis).
Shares knowledge with the team and the business
Communicates with stakeholders on delivery, timelines, risk and impact
Performs unit testing and supports user testing
Builds internal custom reports to support functional projects and team processes
Align with Technical team and understand the Integration setup before designing any configuration changes.
End to end ownership of providing solution after doing the risk assessment and checking SOx impact on People Systems controls
Follows the team working agreements to stay aligned with the team processes
Supports Workday Releases to understand new features rolling out, checking the impact, identifying new possible enhancements and regression testing for Automatically rolled out features relevant to the Application Team
Represent Booking to Workday Community and bring back Best practices from other companies
Explore, research and build new features as a Prototype for business demo.
Booking Values “Think customer first” - Understand Business impact, listen to understand “Own It” - Own Systems planning and implementation, update the customer, give feedback “Learn Forever” - be open, explore, be humble and flexible, receive feedback, “Succeed Together” - follow working agreements, escalate to right channels, communicate “Do the Right Thing” - Respect your colleagues, follow Company policies, be compliant


Requirements of special knowledge/skills
At least 2 years of experience in the People System ecosystem, focused on Workday
Application Skills Workday Scope: Knowledge of various Workday Modules. HCM, Business Processes, Comments for Suppliers: This requirement is for a more junior position.
The role will support with Workday configuration but other activities outside of Workday as Tenant Management.