Ares Management
Website:
aresmgmt.com
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ares-management
Seniority: Not Applicable
Industries: Financial Services
Job details:
Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values – Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy – and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.
Job Description
Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values – Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy – and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.
We’re looking for an exceptional technology professional with a strong track record in ongoing Wordday projects, support and pos-tproduction ownership. This role is key in optimizing HR workflows with Wordday, improve data & analytics capabilities, and ongoing management of the HRIS system for the firm.
This professional will join our HR Technology Systems Team in IT and will work closely with other IT departments, business stakeholders and consultants through all project phases of scoping, implementation, deployment, optimization, and support.
This role requires an adaptable, detail-oriented and trustworthy professional who can operate successfully across various phases of a dynamic project and can manage multiple tasks and transition quickly as business priorities shift.
Primary Functions And Essential Responsibilities
Project Delivery
- Collaborate with Tech teams, implementation partners, and our HR Functional teams in this exciting journey of continuous implementation, optimization, adoption, and embedding Wordday and associated HR Systems for Ares Management.
- At project inception, partner with functional leads to build a compelling business case, articulate value and impact to the organization. Participate in prioritization discussions
- Deploy new features in Wordday and other HR technologies, lead discussions and document requirements clearly with business users. Prototype solution design/configuration options for user review, develop test plans and user acceptance criteria for features, lead test phases. Collaborate on producing training materials, and support model for new system improvements.
Optimization/Ongoing implementation
- In Partnership with business functions in HR (Talent Management, Benefits, Compensation, Payroll, Talent Acquisition, etc.), facilitate discussions to understand and detail problems, process changes, and new functionality requests with users.
- Proactive Solutioning - Monitor application releases, and review functionality for recommendation to functional teams, factoring business value, resource availability, and level of effort, when formulating recommendations.
- Design and deploy new and enhanced functionality, including document requirements clearly, test management, and communications to users and support teams.
Post Implementation Support
- Provide technical consultation to business partners and centers of expertise (CoEs) to enable their program vision
- Provide operational support for scheduled reporting and Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) transactions.
- Find opportunities to improve HCM data quality, drive continuous improvements within the tech and functional teams
- Provide support for Wordday, including researching and resolving complex Wordday problems, unexpected results or process issues
- Support users through training and guidance to drive user adoption o
- Maintain configuration & Support documentation
Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering or Finance
Experience Required
- A minimum of 5 years of relevant Workday HCM and HRIS/HRIT experience with specific experience in the following functional areas:
- HCM
- Report Writer
- Core Connectors
- EIB’s and Reporting
- Experience with Web Services technologies (REST, SOAP, JSON, XML)
- Timekeeping & Absence
- Knowledge of business process configuration, security administration and reporting
- Experience managing system updates and releases
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Knowledge of Human Resources workflows, ADP Payroll, and other HCM processes preferred
- Knowledge of Agile project management methodology preferred
- Prior experience with broader asset management preferred
General Requirements
- Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills
- Dependable, positive attitude, highly motivated and a team player
- Strong team orientation; capability of interacting with internal and external stakeholders to direct prioritization of HRIS related activity and to drive product vision and roadmap
- Ability to successfully manage multiple priorities and competing demands using excellent time management skills; results-oriented
- Strong client service orientation
- High accuracy and attention to detail
- Good judgment in terms of escalating issues vs. solving problems independently
- A solutions-oriented self-starter with the ability to see the big picture
- A demonstrated ability to research and leverage available resources to accomplish the task at hand
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and uncertainty in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
- Flexible with working hours in order to coordinate with team members across various time zones
- An analytical mind and a passion for innovation to increase efficiency of existing processes
- Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information appropriately
Reporting Relationships
Head of HR Technology, Engineering
There is no set deadline to apply for this job opportunity. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.
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