People Systems Lead - Time to Pay

Wood is recruiting for a People Systems Lead – Time to Pay to join our People Systems team on a permanent basis.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced People Systems professional to lead the delivery, support and optimisation of technology solutions across Payroll, Time & Labour, and Absence Management. The successful candidate will work closely with business stakeholders, functional teams and technology partners to maximise the value of our People Systems landscape and drive continuous improvement across global Time to Pay processes.

The role will lead a team of approximately six People Systems professionals and will be responsible for ensuring system solutions, processes and data support operational excellence, compliance and business objectives.

This position can be based at any of our UK office locations, including Aberdeen, Glasgow, Stockton, Reading, Staines and London, and offers hybrid working. We welcome applications from candidates who can effectively collaborate with stakeholders at all levels across our global operations.
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The Role 

The successful applicant will ensure that People Systems activities align with business objectives and maximise the effectiveness, efficiency and competitiveness of Wood's Time to Pay function.

As the functional lead for Payroll, Time & Labour and Absence Management systems, you will be responsible for supporting and enhancing solutions across our current Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) landscape while helping shape the future evolution of our People Systems capabilities.

You will partner with HR, Payroll, Finance, IT and business leaders to deliver scalable, compliant and user-focused system solutions while driving process standardisation and continuous improvement.

A key aspect of the role will be leading and developing a team of approximately six specialists, ensuring the successful execution of operational priorities, projects and strategic initiatives.

Our Clients and Projects  

Designing the future. Transforming the world. 

Wood delivers solutions across more than 60 countries with local offices covering all major energy and materials hubs globally.  

For more than 160 years, we have partnered with clients to deliver engineering, advisory and operational solutions to some of the world’s most complex and critical challenges in energy and materials.

What we can offer 

• Meaningful and interesting projects we support green hydrogen and fuel switching, as well as supporting local clients with energy transition 
• Flexible working arrangements that balance client, team and individual needs offering hybrid working arrangements 
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion; we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice 
• Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market 
• Flexible benefits package; inclusive of 33 days annual leave (including public holidays), generous contributory pension scheme, private medical cover, 4x base salary life insurance; all of these and more that can be adapted to suit your own lifestyle  
• Commitment to continued professional development; development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests 
• Global connections; join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession.

What makes you remarkable?   

At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world’s most critical challenges.  

Expected:  

• Educated to degree level or relevant equivalent years of experience (majoring in systems would be a bonus)  
• Excellent knowledge in the use of EBS or HCM solutions for support business strategy  
• Able to articulate business benefits of systems 
• Knowledge of IT system delivery and change management processes aligned to strong understanding business operations and strategy  
• Possesses functional systems processing expertise for assigned objectives 
• Able to design and implement standard business processes to ensure successful systems deployment  
• Able to effectively work with multi-disciplinary teams on regional and global levels and identify stakeholder needs and refers as appropriate. 
• Self-motivating, able to assume responsibility over broad objectives, priorities and deadlines with minimal supervision 
• Identifies inefficiencies, seeks new ways to improve and provides process improvement recommendations 
• Demonstrates awareness and appreciation for the global multi-dimensional and diverse perspectives in organisation’s line of business 
• Excellent skills and understanding of writing system and test scripts 
• Awareness of functional principles, practices and regulations in a global context  

 Desirable: 

• Qualified or working towards HR Qualification  

 Personal attributes:  

• Demonstrates leadership capability and behaviours in line with the Wood leadership framework  
• Understand and champions the core values providing an example to staff and colleagues  
• Demonstrate ability to drive change and influence key stakeholders in a global and matrix organisation environment  

• Supports the Digital Transformation Manager in the delivery of effective practice which complements the implementations delivery and blueprint 
• Support the Digital Transformation Manager in leading function driven projects and initiatives 
• Lead, develop and mentor a team of approximately six People Systems professionals
• Supports with project planning, discovery, business readiness and adoption of streamlined and standardized end to end processes 
• Supports continuous improvements, enhancements and projects striving toward first class technological solutions 
• Identify opportunities for automated solutions setting technological priorities and explore application capabilities 
• Keeps informed of functional changes to the application advised in the Oracle maintenance packs 
• Contributes to the development and maintenance of global end to end business processes, standards guidance and technical system documentation
• May take the lead as a key focal point or subject matter expert for business implementation roll out or may provide ongoing post go live support  
• Monitors, tracks and manages quarterly system updates and engages with key business stakeholders to work through requirements 
• Work closely with change management analyst to align an include activities, communications, training & education etc into functional project plans
• Provides accurate effort estimations, supports the development of user requirements, testing plans and deployments  
• Manages assigned projects delivering to defined timescales using existing resources