January 9, 2025
Electric Energy Jobs

Senior Workday Specialist

Organization:
Northland Power Inc.
Region:
Canada, Ontario, Toronto
End of contest:
April 9, 2025
Type:
Full time
Category:
Human resources
Description
Reporting to the Manager, Enterprise Applications, you will be responsible for liaising and maintaining the core global ERP platform to support Northland Power business objectives. In this role, you will primarily provide technical expertise as it pertains to ERP Finance, provide business analysis in assessing and designing enterprise application solutions and ensure standards and best practice are followed. Working closely with Workday team members, internal business partners, and designated vendors and partners, you will address business demands and support inquiries and ensure that global business applications in scope are operational within SLA.

This role will be based in Toronto, and you will be expected to work from our corporate office a minimum of 3 times a week in line with our hybrid work model.

Key Responsibilities

  • Responsible for managing and supporting core global/and local Workday ERP system, Primarily Finance.
  • Collaborate with business functional owners, business superusers and business support vendors to align application solutions with organizational objectives.
  • In collaboration with Manager, Enterprise Applications, responsible for planning, design, development, deployment of application and reporting solutions, vendor releases, patches, and enhancements to ERP solution.
  • Lead the business requirements gathering process and prepare business requirements documents.
  • Provide technical leadership in IT/OT application projects and implementation and work with implementation team and vendors.
  • Maintain IT standards throughout SDLC.
  • Assist with ongoing systems and process improvement initiatives to ensure efficient data flow is captured and reporting capability/requirements are met.
  • Collaborate and support Manager, Enterprise Applications in ensuring that vendors and service providers are delivering quality solutions based on SLAs.
  • Develop and maintain all documentation relating to the technical environment including testing and support.

Who You Are:

  • Collaborative: You build relationships, seek diverse perspectives, leverage effective communication, and encourage cross-functional sharing of information.
  • Proactive problem-solver: You evaluate problems through critical thinking. You have a knack for creative problem-solving and are able to develop and implement innovative solutions.
  • Analytical: You can formulate thoughtful and comprehensive analyses that assist in strategic decision-making.
  • Diligent: Your solid attention to detail will ensure the accuracy of the consolidation results, and you will follow up with others to ensure outstanding information or actions are complete.
  • Thinking like an owner:  You demonstrate initiative and ongoing commitment to Northland´s objectives. Take responsibility for actions and quality of the work.
  • Globally minded: You have the ability to adapt and work with different time zones, cultures, perspectives, and attitudes. You are able to bring different perspectives together while providing support to regional and global counterparts.

Qualifications and Experience

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent Business or related field.
  • Minimum 5+ years experience supporting business application systems, applications development, technical design, system integrations, system configuration and deployment along with end-user requirements and support. 
  • 5+ years experience in Workday configuration for Finance modules.  Workday Finance certifications is a must.  HR module proficiency would be an asset.  Expert in system integrations and support.
  • 5+ years of experience eliciting business requirements and preparing business requirements documents.
  • Strong understanding of Accounting principles and Finance processes.
  • Proficiency and experience with implementing all or most Workday Finance modules.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft enterprise products and development tools and methodologies.
  • Waterfall/Agile/Scrum methodologies, etc. experience with traditional SDLC methodologies
  • Knowledge of ITIL framework.
  • Understanding of SaaS solution implementation approaches, as well as cloud development tools
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with all levels of users and with management.
  • Strong influencing, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills.
  • Self-motivated, team player, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Strong planning and quality decision making skills.
  • Strong presentation skills.

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Contact

Northland Power Inc.

30 St Clair Ave W

Toronto



www.northlandpower.com