Sr Analyst, HR Process Governance

Transocean Ltd; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Transocean Ltd. is seeking a Senior HR Standards & Process Manager to lead global governance of HR and expense standards and processes.

You will own the end-to-end lifecycle of standards, drive changes with stakeholders, and ensure alignment with HR strategy and system capabilities. Responsibilities include managing OpenText and Process Manager documentation, validating Workday data, and supporting HR data requests.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in human resources, business administration, or related field.
• 5+ years HR experience with strong exposure to HR operations, process management or standards governance.
• 8+ years experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the global owner and expert for all HR and expense-related standards and processes.
• Maintain the authoritative inventory of HR standards and processes across regions and operating models.
• Lead changes to HR and expense standards and processes, including impact assessments, stakeholder coordination, approvals, and controlled implementation.
• Ensure changes are aligned with HR strategy, regulatory requirements, and system capabilities.
• Own HR standards documentation within OpenText and Process Manager, including drafting, review coordination, approval routing, publishing, and version management.
• Monitor risks, control gaps, or recurring issues related to HR standards and processes and recommend corrective actions.
• Support HR leadership initiatives by ensuring standards and processes are ready to support organizational and system changes.
• Partner with HRIS team as the HR process authority, representing HR requirements during system changes and enhancements.
• Validate Workday data against approved HR standards and processes to ensure accuracy and consistency.
• Handle generic Workday data and reporting requests.

Skills

Workday HCM experience

Microsoft Office Suite

Education

Bachelor's degree in human resources, Business Administration, or related field

Tools

OpenText

Process Manager

Job description

Human Resources Group Transocean is focused on being the employer of choice for the drilling industry. We are challenging ourselves every day to push the performance of the company through technological advances and passion for our work.

Job Summary

The Senior HR Standards & Process Manager is a senior, HR‑owned role responsible for the global governance, ownership, and lifecycle management of all Human Resources and expense‑related standards and processes. This role serves as HR’s subject matter expert and single point of accountability for ensuring HR standards and processes remain consistent, compliant, current, and aligned with business and system requirements. In addition, this role supports HR through generic Workday data requests and process‑related analysis, ensuring Workday usage, configuration, and reporting align with approved HR standards and documented processes. This position owns the current and future state of HR and expense standards and processes and manages all changes, approvals, versioning, and publications through OpenText and Process Manager.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Serve as the global owner and expert for all HR and expense‑related standards and processes.
• Maintain the authoritative inventory of HR standards and processes, ensuring consistency across regions and operating models.
• Lead all changes to HR and expense standards and processes, including impact assessments, stakeholder coordination, approvals, and controlled implementation.
• Ensure changes are aligned with HR strategy, regulatory requirements, and system capabilities.
• Own HR standards documentation within OpenText and Process Manager, including drafting, review coordination, approval routing, publishing, and version management.
• Monitor risks, control gaps, or recurring issues related to HR standards and processes and recommend corrective actions.
• Support HR leadership initiatives by ensuring standards and processes are ready to support organizational and system changes.
• Partner with HRIS team as the HR process authority, representing HR requirements during system changes and enhancements.
• Validate Workday data against approved HR standards and processes to ensure accuracy and consistency.
• Handle generic Workday data and reporting requests.

Education: Minimum Requirements: bachelor's degree in human resources, Business Administration, or related field

Experience: Minimum Requirements: 5+ years HR experience with strong exposure to HR operations, process management or standards governance Preferred Level: 8+ years experience

Skills: Minimum Requirements: Workday HCM experience; Microsoft Office Suite Preferred Level: OpenText, Process Manager

Pre-Requisite/ Qualifications: Must successfully complete pre-employment drug screen Must successfully complete pre‑employment background check

If you want to push yourself to great achievement, let Transocean develop your career. There is a pioneering spirit at Transocean. The ocean is our frontier. We venture across the seas and explore new depths, using advanced technology to find and develop hydrocarbon reserves. Transocean is a leading international provider of offshore contract drilling services for oil and gas wells. The company specializes in technically demanding sectors of the global offshore drilling business, with a particular focus on ultra‑deepwater and harsh environment drilling services and operates the highest specification floating offshore drilling fleet in the world. Transocean owns or has partial ownership interests in and operates a fleet of 27 mobile offshore drilling units, consisting of 20 ultra‑deepwater floaters and seven harsh environment floaters.