Workday Hcm Consultant

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

18 August 2025-23:59-GMT+01:00 Central European Time (Rome)

ABOUT WFP

The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.

At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP's values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.

To learn more about WFP, visit our website:
WHY JOIN WFP?- WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.- WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.- WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.- A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.- We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

WFP is now looking for an experienced Workday consultant to support and enhance the current configuration and deploy new functionalities in particular related to Talent Management business processes.

ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Work closely with the hypercare project team and partner with HR units in HQ and the Field to understand their business needs, assess challenges and provide digital solutions that support HR’s digital transformation.
- Work closely with Workday Product owners, functional leads, and key business stakeholders to drive prioritization of requests, ensure efficient backlog management, and maintain Workday HCM configuration. Collaborate and communicate effectively with all the various stakeholders.
- Proactively address complex challenges and requirements by offering innovative solutions.
- Leverage Workday expertise, promote and implement Workday best practices, ensuring optimal system performance and efficiency.
- Prototype and configure the solutions in Workday following high quality standards liaising with the security and reporting experts when it is required.
- Demonstrate prototypes to the business stakeholders and if required, provide amendments until the business acceptance is received.
- Ensure functional solutions are compatible with all Workday HCM modules and configurations, data translation, integrations and easy to maintain.
- Assist the creation of tests scenarios and facilitate the user testing.
- Lead and prioritize backlog, Resolve issues and bugs.
- Support the migration of the configuration between the different tenants when it is required.
- Support data migration and integrations when it is required.
- Actively participate in training internal resources and knowledge sharing.
- Other tasks as required.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Education:
University’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Human Resources, or related field of study.

Experience:

- Existing and up to date Workday Certification.
- 5+ years prior experience implementing Workday HCM with a certified Workday implementer
- Experience with solution design, system configuration and implementation of changes within Workday.
- Experience translating business requirements into technical solutions within Workday.
- Demonstrated commitment and achievement to delivery excellence and client relationship management.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks concurrently and meet deadlines, despite conflicting demands.

Knowledge & Skills:

- Deep knowledge of Workday business processes and configurations for Workday HCM (Core HR and/or Talent Management)
- Knowledge of Workday Adaptive Planning would be a plus.
- Existing and up to date Workday Certification(s).
- Knowledge of core HR concepts and processes.
- Ability to facilitate cross-functional discussions.
- Proven experience managing cross functional and multi-cultural teams.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Effective interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate and team with others.

Languages:

- Fluency in oral and written English with an intermediate knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish) or Portuguese (one of WFP’s working languages).

WFP LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK

WFP Leadership Framework guides to the common standards of behavior that guide HOW we work together to accomplish our mission.

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