HCM Functional Architect / Consultant

Meet our Team

We represent Hitachi Vantara to enterprise clients across industries, establishing business relationships to understand customer challenges so that we can deliver profitable business for Hitachi products, services and solutions. We collaborate as a team and cross-functionally to ensure the success of our customers; success that is celebrated and shared. Our solutions bring value to every line of business and we need people like you to build those deep relationships and to passionately articulate our value proposition.

Job Description

HCM Functional Architect HCM Functional -- Core HR, Recruitment, Absence Management

In addition to working quickly to resolve client-specific support incidents, the successful candidate will be expected to work on small to medium sized implementation changes for our existing IT Managed Service customer base. A key responsibility is ensuring the accuracy and clear communications with clients within the ticketing system, to show detailed progress and resolutions.

The work can include:
• Identifying solutions to issues clients raise within their existing implementations
• Suggesting alternate best-practice ways to simplify, improve or enhance business processes, performing functional reviews of existing client configuration
• Functional / technical design documents for change implementation
• New functionality configuration, including requirements analysis and design, BR100 configuration documents, testing and supporting client testing
• Functionally support and test technical solutions developed by team members
• Debug and fix issues within FastFormula's, create new FastFormulas where required
• Team working to quickly and efficiently resolve issues in time-critical scenarios
• Working to short-term deadlines in relation to payroll cycles or HMRC tax reporting
• Liaising with clients to fully understand their issue to allow prompt resolution
• Detailed Functional knowledge for Oracle Payroll, proficiency in UK legislation
• In-depth functional knowledge for Core HCM and processes
• Mentoring junior team members and helping to develop team members around UK legislation
• Partaking within quarterly maintenance testing, new features deployment for SAAS colleagues
• Supporting multiple payroll cycles within a month time period
• Video calls with clients to run through issues
• Working on both E-Business Suite and SAAS instances
• Debugging issues within payroll cycles in a time-critical manner, finding workarounds if a quick resolution is not available
• Expanding skill sets and knowledge into new areas of functionality / modules within a SAAS instance
• Showcasing new features and explaining the benefits or drawbacks in a business-friendly manner

Our Company

Hitachi Vantara is part of the Global Hitachi family. We balance innovation with an open, friendly culture and the backing of a long-established parent company, known for its ethical reputation. We guide customers from what's now to what's next by unlocking the value of their data and applications to solve their digital challenges, achieving outcomes that benefit both business and society.

Our people are our biggest asset, they drive our innovation advantage and we strive to offer a flexible and collaborative workplace where they can thrive. Diversity of thought is welcomed and our employee base is represented by several active Employee Resource Group communities. We offer industry leading benefits packages (flexible working, generous pension and private healthcare) and promote a creative and inclusive culture. If driving real change gives you a sense of pride and you are passionate about powering social good, we'd love to hear from you.

Our Values

We strive to create an inclusive environment for all and are open to considering home working, compressed/flexible hours and flexible arrangements. Get in touch with us to explore how we might be able to accommodate your specific needs.

We are proud to say we are an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. With Japanese roots going back over 100 years, our culture is founded on the values of our parent company expressed as the Hitachi Spirit:

Wa - Harmony, Trust, Respect

Makoto - Sincerity, Fairness, Honesty, Integrity

Kaitakusha-Seishin - Pioneering Spirit, Challenge