Workday Functional Lead

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

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- With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.Job Summary

Workday Functional Lead required for the following functional area, including but not limited to : Talent

Acquisition and Onboarding and Talent.

This role requires close partnership and collaboration from a strategic perspective, not only within the Workday team but with all major stakeholders and delivery teams on strategic initiatives, deployments, enhancements and required changes.

**Job Description**:
Provide advice and support on the Workday platform in practice formulation and associated best practice improvement tactics; enabling the provision of specialist human resources expertise.

Commercial awareness and strategic partnering:

- Demonstrates a deep understanding of the global market place, competitive position and
- commercial drivers for a complex, large scale business.
- Uses business acumen/perspective to translate the Business Unit strategy into a clear people
- agenda within the direction set by the bank and global People function for a business with
- multiple core lines of business.
- Is a strategic partner to the Business Unit CEO’s/functional leaders in a fast moving, complex
- and developing environment.
- Uses analytics, data and trends both internally and externally to diagnose Business Unit
- issues and recommend effective solutions.
- Manages external networks and is well connected in the appropriate bodies to shape the
- external perception of Absa Group Limited to be in a position to attract the best capabilities to
- the organisation and have influence in the market place.
- l Articulates strategy and is able to translate into actions and results for the function.

Trusted Advisor:

- Owns the relationship with the Business Unit leadership as a trusted advisor.
- Exemplary coach and sounding board to the CEO and other senior leaders in the business.
- Demonstrates influence and credibility with senior leaders across the business.
- Actively assists the CEO to build the effectiveness and develop the top team appropriately.

Ownership of the end-to-end HR delivery:

- Operates as the relationship manager for the customer base and is responsible for broking People Specialist and Operations to execute on the defined people strategy.
- Works with the Business Unit leadership to identify and develop talent and robust succession for the area.
- Has a high level of focus on customer relations. Drives a culture of customer centricity and responsiveness across all People Function teams.
- Able to prioritize, manage and lead a team of specialist to deliver across a Pan African agenda.
- Drive the delivery of key People initiatives through employing the appropriate change and project management disciplines across the People value chain.
- Takes the business priorities and translate these into People Strategies and takes end-to-end ownership for delivering the following key People processes to their client by undertaking the following:

- Translate business strategy into people strategy and ensuring that workforce planning is embedded whilst providing People analytics that deliver relevant insights.
- Support and drive major change and People Function Projects.
- Specify capability gaps and define talent pools in conjunction with the Functional Leader.
- Takes ownership of strategic resource planning and delivery and participate in executive and senior role hiring.
- Takes responsibility for Business Unit talent reviews, succession planning activities and talent and capability development.
- Deliver Leadership and Learning programmes via specialists, specifies internal capability gaps and ensure relevant assessments, development and coaching in place.
- Drive the Business Unit reward and performance strategy and provide input and manage the executive compensation and ownership of pay cycle and reward plan delivery.
- Ensure effective employee engagement for the Business Unit in conjunction with the Functional Leader, supporting the People Operations planning and service quality management.

Education

Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (required)
- Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised_

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