Fednav, headquartered in Montreal, is the largest international dry bulk shipping group in Canada engaged in worldwide ocean transportation.
Fednav has five international offices established on four continents. Founded in 1944, we are a driven, innovative, and respected organization committed to our employees and customers.
We are looking to fill a position for a Workday Applications Specialist in Human Capital Management (HCM) who will assist the talent management and project teams and actively participate in the evolution and optimization of the Workday platform.
This person will notably serve as the integration lead for the implementation of certain HCM modules.
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING THE ROLE
- Act as a Workday system expert for HCM.
- Actively participate in various testing and validation projects involving Workday.
- Define, design, establish, and implement business needs within the Workday environment.
- Establish the roadmap according to business priorities.
- Ensure compliance and evolution of the Workday application support model, including governance.
- Work closely with the Workday application specialist for Finance modules.
- Support the Business Solutions Delivery Manager regarding the company’s engagement.
- Maintain Fednav’s Workday account, permissions, and licenses, ensuring safe and optimized use.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to identify, analyze, and resolve issues.
- Coordinate and launch bi-annual release processes, including impact analysis of new functionality, testing, and shared process analysis.
- Support HCM stakeholders by providing training and answering questions.
WHAT YOU BRING THE PERSON
The ideal candidate has :
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent mix of education and experience is required; degree in business administration or human resources is preferred.
- At least 5 years of experience as an HR technology analyst or integration specialist with Workday.
- Significant experience and expertise in supporting and configuring Workday HCM modules in at least two of the following areas : payroll, advanced compensation, ATS, LMS.
- Experience in managing system updates, including re-evaluating testing procedures, validating development / environment, or deploying to production.
- Good technical understanding of backup and resilience solutions and processes.
- Rigorous, detail-oriented, and excellent planning skills.
- Ability to properly document processes, procedures, and test protocols.
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
- Ability to multitask; resourcefulness.
- Excellent communication and customer service skills and proven ability to interact with users at all levels of the organization.
- Ability to simplify technical concepts using user-friendly language.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills in both French and English.
Honesty, integrity, commitment to professional excellence, regard for employees and
corporate responsibility define our values.