WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities.
Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 115,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide.
We create transformative ideas and outcomes for our clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology.
WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world’s biggest companies and organisations – from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC, and the UN. Our clients include 61 of the FTSE 100, 307 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 62 of the NASDAQ 100. WPP are the leader in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index and 20th in the FTSE 100 rankings for Women on Boards.
Why we’re hiring:
At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT’s mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP’s petabytes of data.
In this role you will be a member of the Workday Services team deploying, supporting and enhancing our existing Workday deployment, this role and team will grow as we further deploy and expand our Workday FINS coverage geographically and capability.
Reporting to the Workday FINS Product Manager this role is responsible for providing senior levels of technical and process expertise across Workday FINs. Working hand in hand with the wider Workday Services and Program team you will build relationships with our process owners, Shared Service Centre, and stakeholders as a source of expertise and support in Workday FINs and integrated applications.
The new Workday Services team deploys and provides post go-live support and enhancement of the Workday solution that replaces some of our core technology and influences our ways of working for many of our colleagues at WPP.
This flagship programme will see Workday deployed across our global landscape to address the technology needs of Finance, Projects, and our People function – so essentially it touches all of our employees to some degree. The key to this programme is that technology is an enabler for change, it’s at the heart of what we do, but it’s not all of what we do. The people aspects of this programme are vital to its success. This role will help deliver that success on an ongoing basis for many years to come.
What you’ll be doing:
- Support ongoing and future deployments of Workday FINS as part of a program team
- Provide mentoring and support to FINS team members as our senior FINS Consultant
- Solution and oversee deployment of Enhancements to our existing FINS deployments
- Diagnose and resolve assigned tickets for Workday FINs and integrated applications
- Investigate any functionality being released/introduced and collaborating with other functional Workday resources
- Maintain expertise on new functionality/features/capabilities in Workday and wider industry/FINs/technology trends
- Accountable for maintaining up-to-date process documentation
- Expert in the art of the possible with Workday and providing creative solutions
- Safeguard global design standards and principles against competing requests for change
- Solution and Develop Enhancements as assigned
- Act as SME for Workday FINS Module
- Train other members of the team on Workday FINS and associated processes
Who you’ll be working with:
The Workday Services FINS Consultant will report to the Workday FINS Product Owner, and liaise with colleagues in various teams around the globe.
What you’ll need:
- Support ongoing and future deployments of Workday FINS as part of a program team
- Provide mentoring and support to FINS team members as our senior FINS Consultant
- Solution and oversee deployment of Enhancements to our existing FINS deployments
- Diagnose and resolve assigned tickets for Workday FINs and integrated applications
- Investigate any functionality being released/introduced and collaborating with other functional Workday resources
- Maintain expertise on new functionality/features/capabilities in Workday and wider industry/FINs/technology trends
- Accountable for maintaining up-to-date process documentation
- Expert in the art of the possible with Workday and providing creative solutions
- Safeguard global design standards and principles against competing requests for change
- Solution and Develop Enhancements as assigned
- Act as SME for Workday FINS Module
- Train other members of the team on Workday FINS and associated processes
Who you are:
You’re open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.
You’re optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.
You’re extraordinary: We are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.
What we’ll give you:
Passionate, inspired people – We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.
Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.
Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?
The base salary range for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, go to https://wpp.mobi/WPP-US-BENEFITS for more details.
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$75,000—$180,000 USD
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