HR Business Systems Manager - JR0024530_IL

at Yahoo! Inc. in Champaign, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Yahoo is a global media and tech company that reaches hundreds of millions of people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love-from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming and news-with the trusted products, content and tech that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search and media.

The HR Technology team works with partners inside the People Team, as well as cross-functional teams (such as IT, Finance, Legal, Privacy, etc.) Our mission is to develop and improve end-to-end processes and deploy customer-friendly, mobile-enabled systems and solutions.

The role of the HR Business Systems Manager will be to provide end-to-end business process analysis and technology solutions to meet our Talent Management, Recruiting and HCM business objectives, including providing operational support for key HR systems. Reporting to the Sr Manager of HR Technology, the ideal candidate will be a forward thinker with a passion for process improvement, excellent attention to detail, demonstrated problem solving capabilities, and direct hands-on experience with Workday, who excels in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the configuration, testing, change management, adoption, maintenance, and improvement of People Team systems (primarily Workday)
• Work with the business process owners, related stakeholders, and end users to gather, validate requirements, including planning and conducting UX sessions where needed
• Prepare visual wireframes / mockups and demo videos to promote and improve user experience (UX)
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert and provide Tier 2 operational support to users of HR processes
• Work with stakeholders to evaluate and prioritize issues and enhancement requests to influence HR tools, technology strategy and roadmap
• Collaborate with HR Analytics team to modify or create new reports as requested
• Collaborate with IT team to ensure that integrations are built to address business requirements as requested
• Other duties/projects as assigned

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of progressive hands-on HRIS experience, including experience with HR SaaS based systems
• 3+ years of Workday configuration experience, including 2 years of Workday Talent Management, HCM and Recruiting configuration experience
• Hands-on experience implementing and supporting Workday Talent Management and Recruiting globally
• Familiarity with project management principles and methodologies (including Agile)
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and/or Google Sheets
• Must demonstrate a sense of urgency and ownership to drive issues to completion
• Ability to prioritize and manage work against critical project timelines in a fast-paced environment
• Proactive and independent with ability to respond effectively to changing priorities and demand
• Ability to work with teams across multiple time zones and geographic locations
• Able to absorb new technologies and features quickly
• Strong verbal and written communication and follow up skills, including ability to effectively communicate with all levels of management
• Problem and conflict solving abilities, influencing people across organization and levels
• Passion for effective processes and methodologies that will improve the productivity of the organization and provide consumer-grade user experiences.
• Demonstrate confidence, credibility, good judgment and the ability to have fun!
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience

Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity