HRIS Analyst

Job Opportunity

At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK's leading Wealth & Investments group.

Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry's best talent.

Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders and society. We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.

Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients' evolving needs:

• Interactive investor, the UK's second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save and invest in the way that works for them.
• Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
• Our investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.

About the role

Aberdeen's HR Systems Squad sits within the Corporate Technology Office, this is responsible for managing Aberdeen's core HR systems with Workday being its strategic tool of choice. Aberdeen is live with Workday Core HCM, Recruitment, Payroll, Extend, Talent and Help. We have an exciting roadmap ahead of us to further enhance our systems architecture over the next 3 years and embed and enhance ways of working.

This position sits within the HR Systems Team and is responsible for configuring, developing and maintaining Aberdeen's Workday infrastructure. We are seeking a detail-oriented and analytical HRIS Analyst with proven expertise in Workday to join our HRIS team. This role will be responsible for the configuration, maintenance, and optimisation of our Workday system, ensuring it supports our HR processes and strategic goals effectively.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Product Owner to deliver a backlog view of all priorities
• Configure and maintain Workday business processes, security roles, reports, and integrations.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for Workday HCM, including modules such as Core HCM, Recruiting, Talent, Compensation, and Absence.
• Proactively suggest systems improvements, using business requirements to inform technical design, to process configuration, security set up and testing.
• Keep up to date on new functionalities and proactively identify enhancements to current ways of working
• Ensure presence within Workday ecosystem, connecting with other customers
• Share knowledge of best practice, systems enhancements and reporting with HR Systems colleagues and wider HR team
• Maintain documentation of system configurations, processes, and procedures.
• Ensure adherence to HR and IT systems and change governance

About The Candidate

• Proven experience in configuring, maintaining and enhancing Workday processes
• Completion of Workday training backed up with extensive practical application, ideally covering Workday core HCM, Absence and Recruiting
• Experience in additional Workday modules desirable.
• Expertise in Extend, integrations and reporting would be advantageous
• Exposure to other HR systems (e.g., SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM) is a plus.
• Able to communicate effectively to non-technical stakeholders to establish requirements and identify optimal solutions.
• Knowledge of Agile Practices
• Ability to manage competing demands and work across multiple projects

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. Therefore, if you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire and one of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.

Our Benefits

There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.

When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around, including 40 days annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount site amongst many others.

Our Business

Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients' changing needs.

Our Inclusive Culture

We are committed to exploring the possibilities of working smarter. This means we'd like to hear from you, whatever way you like to work.

We have a long-term commitment to building inclusive workplaces; we value diversity in our workforce and welcome enquiries from everyone.

We're committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.

If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.