HRIS Workday, Team Lead

🕒 September 28

🇫🇷 France – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

✨ Team Lead

🗣️🇫🇷 French Required

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First seen by Remote Rocketship September 28

Still open on Pennylane's site. Checked 6 hours ago.

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Pennylane

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2020

💸 Finance

🏢 Enterprise

Finance • Enterprise

Pennylane is a company that provides financial and accounting services. It serves businesses by integrating financial management tools and offering a comprehensive platform that combines financial data and accounting services to streamline business operations.

📋 Description

• Lead and develop a team of 2 Workday HRIS Experts and 1 HR Data Analyst • Organize team work using project plans and agile sprint methodologies • Prioritize the team backlog based on business impact, urgency, and capacity • Foster documentation and knowledge sharing in Notion • Own the Workday post-go-live roadmap, continuous improvement, optimization, and adoption • Review and improve Workday configurations and identify gaps and efficiencies • Translate HR business needs into functional and technical requirements • Lead solution design, UAT, and deployment • Assess and implement relevant Workday product updates and bi-annual releases • Maintain and improve Workday security, role-based access control, data privacy, and audit compliance • Collaborate with IT, Finance, HR Leadership, Talent Acquisition, and Business teams • Facilitate prioritization workshops and steering committees • Serve as the main point of contact between HR Operations and the broader technology organization • Oversee Workday integrations with Ashby, Silae, and other third-party tools • Partner with IT on robust, secure, and maintainable integration architecture • Maintain the HR technology stack and integration landscape map • Explore Workday AI and extensibility capabilities, including Workday Extend • Evaluate Sana Learn and other AI-enabled learning solutions • Lead experimentation, business-case assessment, governance, and deployment of AI and automation use cases • Build team capabilities through training, experimentation, documentation, and knowledge sharing • Ensure HR data quality, consistency, and governance • Develop HR dashboards, KPIs, and reporting for headcount, attrition, and workforce planning • Champion a data-driven HR culture • Ensure GDPR and other data protection compliance across HR data flows • Support HRIS configuration and deployment for international expansion, including new countries, legal entities, payroll connectors, and local compliance • Scale Workday configurations as the organization grows

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience with Workday HCM, including post-go-live ownership and functional configuration • Experience with HCM Core, Time Tracking, Absence, Learning, Talent, Compensation, and Peakon • Strong understanding of the Workday security model, including role-based access and domain/business process security • Experience acting as AMOA or functional project lead on HRIS projects • Experience with requirements gathering, solution design, change management, and UAT • Proven experience managing a team or leading a project team • Strong project management skills, including running sprints, managing a backlog, and delivering in an agile environment • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills • Experience managing or overseeing HR system integrations, including APIs, middleware, or Integration Studio • Experience with AI and automation applied to Workday, HR, or data • Fluent in French and English • Familiarity with Ashby, Silae, Deel, and Google package • Experience in a scale-up or high-growth environment • Exposure to international HRIS rollouts • Knowledge of HR data governance frameworks and GDPR compliance • Ability to work in France and right to work in France; no visa sponsorship available

🏖️ Benefits

• 25 vacation days paid by Pennylane • Competitive compensation package • Company shares • Home office workspace budget • Monthly coworking space allowance • Access to 8000 fitness spaces in Europe and more than 300 wellness activities through Gymlib • Latest Apple equipment • Remote work from country of residence in Europe, within a maximum time difference of two hours from CET • Company events, including Tech Days every 3 months and annual company seminar • For employees based in France: French contract following French regulation • 6 to 12 RTT • 5 weeks PTOs • Lunch credits (Swile) • Alan Blue healthcare cover • Regular events in Lyon, Bordeaux, Nantes, and other cities

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