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About the Role
This role provides functional leadership across Workday HCM and Security, driving continuous improvement, governance, platform optimisation, and operational excellence. You will lead the design and delivery of complex enhancements, oversee security and access management, evaluate new Workday releases and capabilities, and provide trusted advice to senior stakeholders. You will ensure our people systems remain compliant, efficient, and aligned to HCF's strategic objectives.
Responsibilities
- Lead the functional administration, configuration, and optimisation of Workday HCM and Security.
- Drive the discovery, analysis, design, testing, and deployment of complex system enhancements and process improvements.
- Configure and maintain business processes, workflows, security roles, calculated fields, validations, and notifications.
- Manage platform security, user access, segregation of duties, and periodic access reviews.
- Ensure compliance with governance frameworks, privacy requirements, audit obligations, and regulatory standards.
- Assess Workday releases and emerging capabilities, recommending enhancements based on business value and risk.
- Develop and maintain the Workday roadmap, aligning technology priorities with workforce and organisational objectives.
- Partner with senior stakeholders across People & Culture, Payroll, Risk, Cyber Security, and Technology.
- Prepare decision papers, risk assessments, and governance reporting for leadership forums.
- Coordinate external vendors and managed service providers to ensure high-quality delivery and knowledge transfer.
- Maintain system documentation and support capability uplift through coaching and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- Significant experience supporting and configuring Workday, particularly Core HCM and Security.
- Deep understanding of Workday business processes, security architecture, and configuration best practices.
- Proven experience delivering complex end-to-end system changes, from requirements gathering through to implementation and support.
- Strong knowledge of access controls, governance, risk management, privacy requirements, and audit processes.
- Experience assessing Workday releases and translating new functionality into business outcomes.
- Exceptional stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, with experience preparing recommendations and business cases.
- Experience working with external vendors, managed service providers, and specialist consultants.
- A collaborative leadership style with experience coaching and mentoring others.
- Change management experience will be highly regarded.
Skills
- Workday HCM
- Workday Security
- Configuration
- Business Process Management
- Workflow Management
- Security Role Management
- Calculated Fields
- Validations
- Notifications
- Access Controls
- Governance
- Risk Management
- Privacy Requirements
- Audit Processes
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Communication
- Influencing
- Analytical Skills
- Problem-Solving
- Business Case Development
- Vendor Management
- Coaching
- Mentoring
- Change Management
Location
- Australia
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Flexible working arrangements
- 50% subsidy on HCF hospital and/or extras cover
- Family-friendly certified employer
- 18 weeks of parental leave for all new parents
- Mental health and wellbeing programs, including workshops, fitness classes, flu vaccinations, skin checks and more
- Discounts on HCF’s products, including life, pet and travel Insurance, as well as discounts at Fitness First gyms and on our eyecare products.
About the Company
- At HCF, our purpose is to bring our human touch to healthcare. Since 1932 we’ve been putting our members and their health first. As Australia’s largest not-for-profit health fund, we cover 2 million members with health, life, travel and pet insurance and our vision is to make healthcare understandable, affordable, high quality and member centric.
- We want to be true health partners to our members, easily guiding the healthcare choices that are right for them. At HCF, our values are the way we do things and create the necessary culture to help us realise our purpose and deliver our Strategy. Living our values in action we step forward, walk in their shoes, stay human, make it better and get there together.
Equal Opportunity
- We embrace diversity as our strength and are committed to maintaining an inclusive and collaborative work environment. Our workplace is welcoming and safe for all our employees, irrespective of their unique characteristics including age, ethnicity, cultural or spiritual background, gender identity, disability, education and socio-economic status.