The consultant will provide technical expertise to strengthen the integrity, governance, and alignment of Workday organizational data and security configurations. The role focuses on improving data quality, system consistency, and access control compliance within WFP's HR digital backbone.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical expertise to strengthen the integrity, governance, and alignment of Workday organizational data and security configurations.
- Deliver validated and reconciled organizational datasets in Workday, ensuring structural integrity, referential consistency, and compliance with governance standards.
- Produce harmonized organizational and position data across Workday and WINGS, ensuring alignment between Global HQ and Country Office structures, including hierarchies, attributes, and financial objects.
- Execute and document end-to-end mass data maintenance activities, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and traceability across extraction, transformation, load, and reconciliation phases.
- Strengthen data governance controls, delivering improvements in validation rules, monitoring mechanisms, and data quality standards for Organization and Position Management.
- Support the delivery of aligned and compliant Workday security configurations, role-based and user-based security groups and assignable roles.
- Contribute to access review cycles, including validation of user access rights; identification of segregation of duties (SoD) conflicts, and implementation of mitigation actions.
- Support audit readiness and compliance, including preparation of documentation, validation of role mappings, and resolution of audit observations related to access controls.
- Assess and mitigate risks associated with organizational or process changes, ensuring no adverse impact on security or access consistency.
- Support security testing activities (Unit, End-to-End, Integration), ensuring completeness and reliability of security configurations.
- Ensure synchronization between organizational structures and security frameworks, enabling dynamic and accurate role-based access.
- Contribute to system releases and continuous improvement cycles, ensuring proper validation, testing, and stabilization of changes.
Requirements
- Advanced university degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration, Mathematics or Finance, or First level university degree with additional relevant work experience.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in Human Resources or IT.
- Hands‑on experience working with HR systems (preferably Workday), including configuration, data management, or process improvement.
- Exposure to HR digital transformation or system enhancement projects, with the ability to work across functional and technical teams.
- Proven experience in organizational structure and position management, preferably within a complex or global organization.
- Experience with HR Data management and data analysis.
- Knowledge and exposure to corporate information systems, working with SAP HR modules and Workday system.
- Good knowledge and ability to interpret HR data, rules and regulations.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Strong time management skills with an ability to juggle competing priorities successfully, and to work on tight deadlines.
- Attention to details and strong coordinating skills.
- Ability to build relationships with a variety of individuals across functions and outside WFP in order to effectively contribute to the functioning of the unit.
- Fluency in oral and written English with an intermediate knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish) or Portuguese (one of WFP’s working languages).
Skills
- HR Systems Configuration
- Workday
- HR Data Management
- HR Digital Transformation
- Organizational Structure Management
- Position Management
- Data Analysis
- SAP HR Modules
- HR Rules Interpretation
- Computer Information Systems
- Access Control Compliance
- Data Quality Improvement
- System Consistency
- Technical Expertise in HR IT
- Time Management
- Coordination Skills
Languages
English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese