• Leading delivery of integrations of Workday with strategic systems including Payroll (Ceridian Dayforce).• Scrum master managing project delivery plan, risks & issues.• Driving quality and architecture, assuring E2E dataflow touchpoints, transformation layers & integrated design.• Partnering with HR, Payroll & IT stakeholders across the business along with implementation partner, consultancy and vendor teams.• Payroll ERP implementation guidance and developing HRIT Change Management processes in conjunction with IT Service Management.• Reporting to Head of IT Global Business Relationship for HR & Legal.

Leading delivery of technical solutions for global ERP transformation programmes, specialising in HR and Payroll domain (incl. Workday).• Key components include Integrations, SSO/Access, System decommissioning & holistic end-to-end design;• Managing system implementation partner resources, internal subject-matter experts and external third-party leads;• Stakeholder engagement with HR, IT, Finance & Payroll;• Talent selection and development balancing expertise with cost;• Cost management across internal, third-party and implementation partner resources.

• Led Technical HCM workstream comprised of 7-10 direct BA reports, Informatica middleware team, Workday technical implementation partner and vendor/internal teams. Managed delivery, risks & issues through discovery, planning, implementation, testing & cutover. This included budget management in conjunction with Procurement.• Partnered with Functional, Data, E2E Process, Change, Test, Cutover & PMO teams.• Defined best practices, guiding principles and integration approaches to support WPP’s Architecture strategy.• Quality assured integration delivery and alignment to WPP guidelines for reusable and strategic integrations.• Developed relationships with business & technical stakeholders across WPP to enable analysis of +70 as-is/to-be system landscapes for WPP’s transformation journey to simplify, standardise and transform operations globally.• Reported to HCM Programme Lead and Programme Technical Lead/WPP’s Head of Application Architecture

• Led internal and third-party technical teams through development of integrations between Workday, Snaplogic middleware technology and upstream/downstream systems. Managed technical deployment, risks, issues and costings.• Business and technical stakeholder engagement to ensure alignment of business resources and successful delivery.• Partnered with Freshfields Domain and Enterprise Architects to define guiding principles for integration delivery and creating a decommissioning strategy for legacy systems post Go-Live.• Collaborated with Workday SMEs and IT Architects to define access strategy for Workday.• Reported to Programme Lead and partnered with Workday system implementor.

• Led teams to deliver a range of technical project components, including integrations, E2E payroll and reporting;• Built and maintained trusted advisory relationships with clients;• Mentored and guided talent development;• Led development of technical value-add propositions including use of Workday Platform as a Service (PaaS), Blockchain and E2E integration of HR services with Workday.

• Technical Payroll E2E team lead for one of Workday’s largest global HCM implementations;• Workday HCM and Finance Platform Integration Architect for global implementations;• Technology lead for cloud HR and Finance vendor assessments;• Technical SME in client workshops and implementation bids;• Mentor to team members on technical and career development.

• Workday Integration Lead on HRIS transformation, managing team through critical design, build, test activities;• Management of diverse virtual team in multiple locations and creation of new recruiting/resourcing strategies;• Presented at Workday partner event, Altitude, on integration touchpoints to functional modules and processes.

• Experienced Workday Senior Integration Consultant on global HRIS transformation;• Led client engagement to assess existing system architecture to identify areas to optimise IT and business processes.

• Senior Integration Consultant implementing Workday as part of HRIS Transformation for a global retailer;• Technical SME with experience in .NET, SQL Server and Workday (including PICOF, XSLT/XPath and Studio).

• Support for internal/external customer projects. Technologies including .NET, C#, SharePoint and VB.NET;• Certified and experienced in utilising the ITIL V3.