Workday Compensation & Benefits Lead

Keywords Studios is the leading provider of creative and technical services to over 950 clients, including major AAA developers and publishers such as Microsoft, Bandai Namco, and PlayStation. With a global network of 75+ studios, we co-develop games and provide comprehensive support across all aspects of game development including Localization, QA, Audio Services, Art Production, Game Development, Marketing services and much more. Our teams bring the visions of industry leaders to life, whether enhancing iconic franchises or building new projects from the ground up.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the Workday Compensation capability area. May also be required to support HCM Core, Staffing, Onboarding and Security
• Partner with the Reward Team in design and deployment of complex global annual merit, bonus and stock grant cycles in Workday.
• Analysis, solutions design and development, product delivery and post-production migration support of functional modifications and enhancements to Workday HR systems/tools.
• Serve as Workday SME; actively participate in Workday Releases and staying ahead of new features/functionality being introduced by Workday.
• Manage annual compensation administration to include merit and incentive processes. Ensure system and data interfaces are current and optimized.
• Be part of the team responsible for the business configuration and maintenance of the Workday HR systems supporting internal employees as well as other downstream systems and processes.
• Knowledge of HR processes including touch points in HCM, payroll and security.
• Viewed as a trusted advisor and credible business process and technical expert to the business teams.
• Translate business and technical requirements into a project and architectural blueprint that achieves desired business objectives - this includes identifying solutions for Workday product gaps. Assist in crafting and presenting a solution to influence key decision makers.

• Global Coverage including America, EMEA and APAC regions.

• Partner with HRBPs and senior leaders to identify opportunities to better leverage Workday; create project plans and implement improvements/deploy new features based on those findings.
• Regularly maintain awareness of new updates to the system and effectively communicate appropriate information to impacted stakeholders.
• Implement process improvements and new features on a rolling basis.
• Create and maintain dashboards; deploy dashboards to business leaders.
• Periodically audit system data for accuracy.
• Serve as a main support contact for user questions and proactively take ownership of identified Compensation issues - either independently researching and resolving the issue or escalating the issue, as appropriate.