The Center of Excellence (COE) Lead will oversee a multidisciplinary team of specialists across Payroll, Workday Operations, Workday Analytics, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), Talent Acquisition, and Workday Learning Operations. This leader will ensure operational excellence, drive innovation, and foster collaboration across HR and business functions, while leveraging Workday as the backbone of employee experience and workforce management.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Strategy
- Provide vision and direction to the COE team, aligning initiatives with organizational goals.
- Develop strategies to enhance efficiency, compliance, and employee experience.
- Act as a thought leader, promoting best practices across HR, payroll, analytics, and talent functions.
Team Management
- Lead and mentor specialists in Payroll, Workday Operations, Workday Analytics, DEI, Talent Acquisition, and Workday Learning Operations.
- Foster collaboration across functions to ensure seamless integration of processes and initiatives.
- Encourage career development and continuous learning.
Operational Excellence
- Payroll:
- Manage end to end Payroll on Workday for US employees, including EIB uploads.
- Payment Elections, Taxes, W2, queries support management by the team members
- Timely Mailbox and Case Management to ensure efficiency and compliance.
- Workday Operations:
- Manage Tier‑1 technical support to HRSS teams, troubleshooting business process errors, to achieve the designed system outcome for all HR workflows and journeys.
- Govern Security Role assignment and adherence to drive and deliver HR compliance at an org level.
- Workday Analytics:
- Drive data-driven decision-making through reporting, dashboards, and workforce insights for SLT and ELT members
- DEI:
- Support DEI requests and supporting business processes
- Ensure business processes are equitable, accessible, and compliant with DEI standards.
- Talent Acquisition:
- Support the Tier – 1 team with Position
📌 Center of Excellence Lead (Pune)
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