HRIS Analyst

dmg media limited; City of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media company based in London is seeking an experienced HR Systems Analyst to champion Workday. This role involves providing technical support, ensuring employee data integrity, and participating in system upgrades. Ideal candidates will have over 2 years of experience with Workday HCM and possess excellent communication skills. The company offers extensive benefits including holidays, pension plans, and onsite facilities.

Benefits

25 days' holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to 30)

Pension Plan with company contribution

Life cover under the Pension Plan

DMGT Discounts

Subsidised canteen

Onsite gym

Onsite nurse and GP clinics

Employee Assistance Programme

Discounted dining cards

Qualifications

• 2+ years' experience supporting Workday HCM with a focus on Learning and Performance.
• Experience in a fast-paced environment and managing workloads independently.

Responsibilities

• Provide functional and technical support for the Workday system.
• Ensure data integrity of employee data.
• Participate in system upgrades or patches.

Skills

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Ability to multitask and prioritize

Proactive attitude

Logical thinker

Self-motivated

Tools

Workday

Greenhouse

JIRA

Job description

Location: dmg::media Headquarters, HSK, London, W8 5HY

Position: Full Time/Permanent

About Us

dmg media maintains an unwavering commitment to uncovering the stories that matter most. Its brands Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, MailOnline, Mail+, Metro, The i Paper and New Scientist reach more than 9 million people daily in the UK.

Its global newsroom of journalists, formidable story‑getting power, and breadth of content formats, delivers highly engaging, trusted content to loyal and new audiences, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The Mail brand reaches three in five Brits every month and is officially the best‑read, most recognised, most engaged newsbrand in the country. It is the largest news publisher on TikTok with over 21 million total followers and nearly 30 billion views in the past year.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Global HR Systems Team.

The Workday system spans across DMGT’s diverse portfolio, making this a very exciting opportunity. This team will support our Operating Companies which are geographically spread across, the UK, USA and well as multiple other geographies.

We are looking for a HR Systems Analyst to champion Workday. We are looking for someone to support the ongoing development of the system, to fully utilise the full Workday suite of products.

• Provide functional and technical support, identify and troubleshoot system problems raised by our businesses using JIRA.
• Recommend and plan future developments to the system when you see the opportunity for operational improvement.
• Act as a specialized techno‑functional analyst and potentially lead assigned HR system projects and initiatives.
• You will ensure data integrity including quality, accuracy, security, and usability of employee data.
• Participate in reviewing, planning, testing and implementing system upgrades or patches

Person Specification

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to multitask, prioritise workloads, and work in a fast‑paced environment.
• Ability to research and build ‘market maps’ for a variation of skills and vacancies.
• Proactive attitude, someone willing to independently manage their workload and be active with researching, sourcing and speaking to lots of candidates.
• Experience of Greenhouse and Workday would be desirable.
• A self‑motivated individual who can motivate themselves during remote working
• 2+ years' experience supporting Workday HCM with a focus on Learning and Performance, Payroll, Time Tracking and HCM Modules
• Confident with advising on systems excellence
• Logical thinker with excellent communication skills

Desired technical experience

• Practical experience configuring business processes
• A knowledge of Workday’s security model
• Ability to load EIBs
• Experience of at least 1 workday release cycle

Package Description

Our benefits package increases the longer you’ve been with us. Here’s what to expect:

• 25 days’ holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)
• Upon joining you will be automatically enrolled onto the Pension Plan at the minimum level of 5% employee contribution, 3% Company contribution.
• Life cover under the Pension Plan of up to 3x your basic salary.
• DMGT Discounts (for discounts on online shopping, vouchers and reloadable cards)
• Subsidised canteen
• Onsite gym (Northcliffe House only)
• Onsite nurse and GP clinics (Northcliffe House only)
• Our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted dining cards

Plus many other benefits….

Our Commitment

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.

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