Company Description

Nine is Australia’s largest locally owned media company – the home of Australia’s most trusted and loved brands spanning News, Sport, Lifestyle, and Entertainment. We pride ourselves on creating the best content, accessed by consumers when and how they want – across Publishing, Broadcasting and Digital.

Nine’s assets include the 9Network, major mastheads such as The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review, radio stations 2GB, 3AW, 4BC and 6PR, digital properties such as nine.com.au, 9Now, 9Honey, Pedestrian.TV, Drive, subscription video platform Stan and a majority investment in Domain Group.

Our Purpose: We shape culture by sparking conversations, challenging perspectives, and entertaining our communities.

We bring people together by celebrating the big occasions and connecting the everyday moments. Australia belongs here. We bring our purpose to life via three shared values: We walk the talk, turn over every stone and keep it human.

Job Description

We are embarking on a HR system implementation across Nine and searching for a Workday Compensation SME to work closely within our Technology team to deliver a series of initiatives that will be critical to set this program up for success.

Day to day you will:

Conduct business analysis and data gathering on current and future compensation plans and assignments and align this to the Workday methodology, concepts and business processes

Work with business owners and stakeholders to gather business requirements and lead Compensation design decisions in the Architect phase including design workbooks

Provide recommendations on best practice and market conditions

Assist in test case creation and full testing phase

Support HCM requirements when needed

Gather business reporting requirements and lead Reporting capabilities including Custom Report creation in Workday including Security assignments

Provide the Project Manager/Program Director with status reports and keep them apprised of overall project status relevant to the Compensation and Advanced Compensation modules

Have a high-level understanding of Annual Remuneration Review process and ability to apply this in the Workday solution

Work collaboratively with the People & Culture, Change Management, Data, Integrations and Functional Leads per module

Work collaboratively with all Business units to understand and document their current state HR processes and be able to clearly capture varying requirements and needs across the BUs

Engage with stakeholders at different levels, across various business units to gain business knowledge and translate this into key deliverables

Support future state and internal training initiatives

Support the project team and business, building a trust relationship with ability to influence

Qualifications

To succeed in this role you will have proven experience in working on system design and Workday implementation projects in large, complex organisations. It is essential that you are a driven individual with a desire to deliver exceptional business outcomes. You are comfortable dealing with ambiguity and have excellent communication, influencing and conflict resolution skills. You will be flexible in your approach to work and adaptable to the different working styles of different parts of the Business.

Experience Required

Minimum of 5 years work experience in the Workday eco-system using Workday

3+ end to end Workday implementations, leading Workday Compensation (preferred)

2+ end to end Workday implementations, leading Workday Advanced Compensation (advantageous)

Workday Core Compensation and Advanced Compensation certified (nice to have)

Experience on large scale, complex system and organisational design using Workday

Strong understanding of relationships and security configuration between Core HCM, other Workday modules, Security and Reporting

Preferred experience with the HR functional and HR processes with leading best practice

Experience in all project phases, from Design through to Deploy

Ability to guide decision making, gather requirements and ownership on testing assigned functional modules

Ability to effectively communicate functional and non-functional requirements to cross-functional agile squads using user stories and supporting documentation such as ‘as is’ and ‘to be’ process models, use cases and user journey maps

Experience in facilitating a variety of people with experience in delivering workshops, storytelling, presenting to senior business stakeholders and dealing with conflicting requirements and needs

Successful at overcoming conflict and resistance to foster effective working relationships

Experience in ensuring the accuracy of requirements and processes provided by the business, and are able to identify and resolve gaps

Excellent problem solving skills and excellent communication skills both written and verbal

You have knowledge of tenant configuration, system architecture and third party integrations (payroll)

Past experience working in the Australian broadcast TV industry would be advantageous

Qualifications: Bachelor in Business or Management or related field

Salary Range: 145k-156k base

Additional Information

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

At Nine, we are committed to fostering a workforce that embraces all aspects of diversity and inclusion and where practices are equitable to ensure our people experience a sense of belonging. From day one, you'll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work and will be supported to perform at your best. Should you require any adjustments to the recruitment process in order to equitably participate, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application.

We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures. .

Disclaimer: We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes and are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.