Workday Security Consultant

Egon Zehnder

Egon Zehnder (www.egonzehnder.com) is trusted advisor to many of the world’s most respected organizations and a leading Executive Search firm, with more than 550 consultants and 63 offices in 36 countries spanning Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Our clients range from the largest corporations to emerging growth companies, government and regulatory bodies, and major educational and cultural institutions. The firm is a private partnership which allows us to operate independent of any outside interests. As a result of this unique culture, Egon Zehnder has the highest professional staff retention rate for a global firm in our profession. We have a blue chip client base across all industries and operate at the Board and senior management level.

Knowledge Centre India (KCI)

Established in 2004, KCI in Gurgaon, works in close collaboration with the Global offices of Egon Zehnder. There are 5 teams that make up KCI: Research, Research Operations, Visual Solutions, Projects/CV Capture and Digital IT.

Your Journey at Egon Zehnder Starts Here

At EZ, you have the opportunity to deliver digital transformation initiatives across the globe for the organization. Our focus on emerging technology solutions along with our commitment to internal career growth and exceptional client value has resulted in a firm that is routinely recognized as a “Best Place to Work.”

Who we are

We are part of Digital-IT team established 14 years ago in Gurgaon, India to provide technology support and rollout digital initiatives to 60 plus global offices. Digital IT has six key pillars – Collaboration Technology; Functional Technology; Digital Technology; Security & Architecture; Infrastructure & Services, Digital Success to support business and to take lead on digital transformation initiatives with the total strength of 150+ team members across the globe

Egon Zehnder (www.egonzehnder.com) is trusted advisor to many of the world’s most respected organizations and a leading Executive Search firm, with more than 550 consultants and 63 offices in 36 countries spanning Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Our clients range from the largest corporations to emerging growth companies, government and regulatory bodies, and major educational and cultural institutions. The firm is a private partnership which allows us to operate independent of any outside interests. As a result of this unique culture, Egon Zehnder has the highest professional staff retention rate for a global firm in our profession. We have a blue chip client base across all industries and operate at the Board and senior management level.

Knowledge Centre India (KCI)

Established in 2004, KCI in Gurgaon, works in close collaboration with the Global offices of Egon Zehnder. There are 5 teams that make up KCI: Research, Research Operations, Visual Solutions, Projects/CV Capture and Digital IT.

Your Journey at Egon Zehnder Starts Here

At EZ, you have the opportunity to deliver digital transformation initiatives across the globe for the organization. Our focus on emerging technology solutions along with our commitment to internal career growth and exceptional client value has resulted in a firm that is routinely recognized as a “Best Place to Work.”

Who we are

We are part of Digital-IT team established 14 years ago in Gurgaon, India to provide technology support and rollout digital initiatives to 60 plus global offices. Digital IT has six key pillars – Collaboration Technology; Functional Technology; Digital Technology; Security & Architecture; Infrastructure & Services, Digital Success to support business and to take lead on digital transformation initiatives with the total strength of 150+ team members across the globe

The Position

Egon Zehnder is going through a digital transformation journey, and we are looking for dynamic team members who can be part of this journey to contribute and make it successful.

We are looking for Workday Security Consultants to provide overall application security administration in Workday. Your responsibilities will include tenant access management, security group management and you will provide support on change management activities that have a security impact. You will act as a security matter expert and strategy partner to our stakeholders for overall security architecture and governance across the Workday platform. The support you will provide is critical for ensuring we have robust controls in place to protect our data and minimize risk.

Requirements

Responsibilities

• Assist as needed in granting security access to Workday following security protocols established by the Product Owner. Verify proper security protocols are being followed across impacted platforms
• Responsible for configuring changes to security setup within Workday as assigned. Create security models (security groups and roles) based on the key functional responsibilities of the end user assignment population.
• Configure, propose, and test security resolutions in collaboration with other team members and stakeholders

• Review system upgrades/releases to determine overall security related impacts, conduct testing and make recommendations for future enhancements/functionality
• Actively participate in Workday Community by researching best practices and monitoring new and updated security functionality, staying on top of evolving standards so that security controls can be adjusted as required
• Assist in reviewing/ approving Workday/HR application security requests and create and document proper internal security controls.
• Help prepare for and participate in internal security audits and/or external audits where required.
• Review and update annually the Workday Security Governance and Framework Standard Operating Procedure document
• Develop security audit reporting and a framework for data access quality checks

• Support security related regression testing after changes are made to domain and business process policies as part of projects and change improvements

• Troubleshoot errors, investigate problems, and provide security support to Workday users and stakeholders in a timely manner

• As part of security management, review and audit security roles and their assignments on a regular basis

• Implement security changes inside of Workday
• Work in an open environment where creativity is welcome and encouraged
• Staying relevant to emerging trends in areas related to workday product
• Assigned full or part-time to participate in the project life cycle
• Responsible for contributing to overall project objectives and specific deliverable
• Responsible for timely identification and escalation of risks and development of alternative technical and functional approaches when necessary

Qualifications

• Should have overall 7-10 Years of Implementation/Production Support experience.
• Should have minimum 4-5 Years of Workday configuration and core application framework experience in (HCM Core, Business Processes, Security & Reporting) with a strong emphasis on Security aspects such as authentication policies, access control, unauthorized access detection as well as a familiarity with standard delivered security tasks and reports in Workday HCM, Performance, Talent, Learning, Absence.
• Should have working experience of Business Process Configuration, Security, ISSG/ISU.
• Should be able to create detailed system security specifications, and system process designs.
• Must be able to resolve incidents and cases and provide production support
• Design, Develop, test, and deploy tasks related to Workday security required to meet business requirements.
• Ability to help resolve security issues requiring a depth of expertise in the Workday security structure.
• Experience of security audit framework with Workday Configuration will be an advantage.
• Understanding of HCM functional modules – Core HR, Recruitment, Compensation, Absence, Performance etc. will be preferred.
• Understanding SDLC and Agile methodologies