Workday HRIS Lead: BAU & Governance Champion

Hungry Jack's ® Pty Ltd; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Hungry Jack’s Pty Ltd in Sydney is seeking an experienced HRIS Lead to guide the Workday journey from project delivery to BAU, governance and continuous improvement. You’ll stabilise modules, drive data quality, and build sustainable support structures across the organisation.

Join a collaborative, fast-paced team and shape the ongoing HRIS strategy, ensuring system health, secure integrations, and enhanced employee experience throughout the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with HRIS/HCM platforms, ideally Workday.
• Experience across both system implementation and BAU environments.
• Strong understanding of HR processes, data, governance and the employee lifecycle.
• A continuous improvement mindset and ability to translate system insights into action.
• Strong stakeholder management, problem-solving and communication skills.
• Leadership experience and a genuine interest in developing others.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of outstanding Workday modules, enhancements and functionality.
• Support the transition from project mode into BAU, establishing clear ownership, governance and sustainable support practices.
• Drive the ongoing stabilisation and optimisation of Workday across the employee lifecycle.
• Establish meaningful metrics and controls across system health, data quality, process performance, integrations, security and adoption.
• Identify recurring issues, bottlenecks and manual workarounds, turning insights into practical improvements.
• Lead system enhancements, testing, UAT, releases and upgrades.
• Partner with P&C, IT, PMO, Operations and vendors to ensure our People systems remain fit for purpose.
• Lead and develop the HRIS team and build broader system capability across the Hungry Jack’s organisation.

Skills

HRIS/HCM platforms

Workday

BAU operations

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Tools

Workday

Job description

Hungry Jack’s Pty Ltd in Sydney is seeking an experienced HRIS Lead to guide the Workday journey from project delivery to BAU, governance and continuous improvement. You’ll stabilise modules, drive data quality, and build sustainable support structures across the organisation.

Join a collaborative, fast-paced team and shape the ongoing HRIS strategy, ensuring system health, secure integrations, and enhanced employee experience throughout the lifecycle.