Technical Functional Lead - UKG / Payroll

Let’s create a more sociable future together

At Endeavour, we’re totally into what we do. With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, we love to bring people together. Together we share our passion for our products and industry; it’s what inspires us to dream big, and continue to create new experiences for our customers and teams across Australia. If you thrive on positive energy, we want to meet you!

• Be uniquely you, come as you are 
• Hybrid ways of working - 3 days work from office
• Join one of our most efficient teams, leading the design, optimization, and governance of our workforce management and payroll ecosystems

The Functional Lead – UKG WFM & Payroll is a strategic and technical role responsible for leading the design, optimisation, and governance of our workforce management and payroll ecosystems. Acting as the key subject matter expert, you will engage with multi-layered stakeholder groups to deliver robust, compliant, and innovative solutions across UKG Pro Workforce Management and the integrations with SAP SuccessFactors various modules and SAP BTP.

Reporting to the Group Solution Manager - People Systems, you will own the solution roadmap, ensuring our Scheduling, Rostering, Time & Attendance (RTA), and Pay processes directly support our overarching people strategy and operational efficiency goals.

Sound good? Read on.

Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role:

• Provide Tier 3 defect / query escalation support to the Team Services - People Systems team and Operations, analysing and troubleshooting configuration issues, pay calculation discrepancies, and integration errors

• Lead the strategic roadmap, continuous improvement, and feature adoption for UKG WFM. Partner with the Team Services - People Systems team to understand key business drivers and strategies to Ddrive the optimisation of Scheduling, Rostering, Leave and Time & Attendance modules.

• Provide application continuous improvement and deliver upgrades/projects to maintain UKG WFM business solutions as well as the integration with SuccessFactors Employee Central, Learning and Employee Central Payroll, as well as BTP.

• Proactively engage with multi-layered stakeholder groups to understand business needs. Analyse and translate business needs into UKG WFM solutions and initiatives by either managing some components of large initiatives/projects or all components of small to medium sized initiatives/projects.

• Ensure all UKG WFM and Payroll processes strictly adhere to organizational policies, legislative requirements, Modern Awards, and EBAs. Lead compliance auditing within the systems.

• Spearhead research and development initiatives to leverage new UKG capabilities. Stay ahead of vendor release cycles (including UKG release management) to drive continuous innovation and automation.

• Manage system testing, training, user acceptance and validation testing of solutions and production changes and upgrades to applications and systems

• Maintain compliance to audit, application security, application roles design and segregation of duties findings

• Manage governance and release of system changes to production

Now let’s talk about you: 

• Minimum 5 years’ (5+) in designing and/or implementing UKG WFM / Kronos 

• Extensive expertise in interpreting complex Awards, EBAs, and labor laws, and translating them into automated UKG pay rules and work rules.

• Deep technical knowledge in Dataviews, Hyper find queries, workforce Genies and calendars, Data Access control concepts, schedule rules, work rule and integration jobs

• Experience with managing Kronos periodical Releases

• Migration, Troubleshooting experience in Workforce Integration Manager, Integration through API's

• Strong understanding of WFM-to-Payroll integration, specifically mapping UKG time data into SAP SF EC payroll.

• Experience with application security: Roles design and authorizations matrix including mapping of business roles to transactions

• Experience with service management tools e.g. ServiceNow and Level 2/3 Support processes.

• Knowledge in SAP Payroll configuration is desirable

• Experience in Retail desirable

• Demonstrate ability to quickly establish strong working relationships and communicate effectively with a wide range of business and IT stakeholders from senior management to operational staff including external vendors both on and off shore. 

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We celebrate diversity and are dedicated to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.

The benefits are good too! 

• An exclusive discount card for our ALH Hotels pubs & accommodation, BWS, Dan Murphy’s and other Endeavour Group brands. Through our partnership with Woolworths, you'll also enjoy discounts at Woolies supermarkets and BIG W 
• As a valued member of the team, your health and wellbeing is our top priority. You will have access to a range of free services to help you live well and support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing
• Endeavour Group is full of opportunities - use our dedicated learning and development options to grow an idea, yourself, and your career. This is just the start, so dream big
• Find out more about our range of benefits and discounts here

At Endeavour, we value being a workplace where everyone’s welcome - if you meet a number of the requirements (and not all), we encourage you to apply.

We are together creators

With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, Endeavour Group is big on sociability. Together we create the moments that bring millions of people together. And together we have more fun, create more opportunities, and score a lot more goals. We’re serious about creating a safe, inclusive and fun place to rock up to where equal opportunity is key, and flexibility is part of how we roll.  

We’re all about creating a more sociable future - for our customers and each other. If this job excites you - and you’re close-enough on the requirements, reach out, we’d love to hear from you.

You can learn more about working with us on LinkedIn or at endeavourgroupcareers.com.au.

Our Talent Team and Hiring Leaders kindly request no unsolicited resumes or approaches from Recruitment Agencies. Endeavour Group is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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