Business Process Administrator

Position Summary

The Workday Business Process Administrator (BPA) will play an integral role in designing, implementing, and maintaining workday Strategic Sourcing business processes and configurations in the Workday ERP system. The ideal candidate will bring a “system” view with expertise working with end users and technical team members to facilitate the design of business processes, and subsequently implement them within Workday. The Workday BPA engenders trust through their leadership and technical competence. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with cross-functional business owners and functional users in procurement and finance. They will work with equal effectiveness with workday analysts, security, and peer administrators to ensure best practices are employed to meet the College’s business needs. The candidate will demonstrate the ability to engage across every level, both inside and outside the college, in support of the College’s contributions to the vibrancy, growth, and economic stability of Dallas County, for todays and future generations.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Provide technical competency in the design and configuration of Workday business processes. Preference will be given to candidates with demonstrated experience in Workday, and especially Workday Strategic Sourcing and Finance as a Business Process Administrator.
• Ability to operate from the tactical to strategic levels.
• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve issues related to Workday functionality in a timely manner with little to no oversight.
• Collaborate across the business to understand requirements, configuration, and testing of Workday solutions for varying business problems including business process updates, custom validations, condition rules and calculated fields to optimize the use of Workday.
• Conduct proactive continual improvement activities and measures within their supported business organizations.
• Lead and facilitate the quarterly testing and college release cycles for Workday’s bi-annual release process.
• Lead and drive the implementation of new Workday modules.
• Demonstrate a passion for continual improvement of business process and technology.
• Experience working in Agile, Lean environments.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated with the ability to manage initiatives, themes, and epics to completion.
• Excellent collaboration skills, applied successfully within team as well as with cross functional teams.
• The ability to develop collaborative relationships with internal and external constituencies and create a diverse environment.
• Comfortable with a faster than average pace and frequently changing environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Support and manage the design, configuration, and performance of the multi-module Workday application.
• Assist in Workday functions like business process and tenant configuration and upgrade evaluation.
• Act as escalation point for user-reported issues.
• Participates in planning activities, development, and evaluation of technology solutions, working with cross-functional partners to drive innovation.
• Provides technical support for product design, testing, and implementation activities.
• Consults with business and technical teams to steer the design and implementation of high-quality solutions across all phases of all applicable projects.
• Articulate technology strategies and solutions that support the vision and mission of the College and align resources toward the successful achievement of goals.
• Ability to resolve problems, analyze and apply laws, regulations, theories and methodology, research, analyze, apply, and articulate results identifying opportunities.
• Ensure collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and best practices among partners and colleagues to embed a robust technological ecosystem.
• Committed to personal and professional development.
• Create an environment that values, enables, and encourages innovative solutions to improve existing products and services and to develop and implement new tools and products.
• Maintain a culture that is collegial and that respects and values diversity.
• Perform other duties as assigned.