Workday Platform Manager

7 months ago


Brisbane, Australia Rio Tinto Full time

**Workday Platform Manager**
- Tremendous opportunity to join a global organisation at the forefront of mining
- Excellent work environment where people are valued and respected
- Great work life balance and attractive benefits
- Be part of a group that is safety focused and values inclusion
- Permanent position that can be based in Brisbane or Perth, Australia, or Montreal, Quebec

**About the role**

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Platform Manager who will have overall responsibility for Workday. The role will need to partner with various teams across the organisation, including Business Stakeholders, Product Owners, and numerous teams in IS&T to ensure ongoing operations and continuous improvement of Rio Tinto’s core HR platform.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced leader with expertise in Workday platform management at a global scale to take accountability for managing the core technology supporting the HR function, overseeing platform health, service performance, and continuous platform improvement to ensure operational experience and ongoing service stability.

This is an excellent opportunity build a team and establish best practices as Rio Tinto transitions to Workday across its global operations and will undoubtedly be one of the greatest professional challenges & rewards of your career as opportunities like this are truly few and far between.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

Reporting to the Manager - Business Platforms and Services and working in collaborative and supportive environment within our Technology Platforms division, you will:

- Be responsible for managing the Workday Platform including overseeing system health, performance, issue identification and resolution to deliver maximum availability
- Ensure appropriate controls are in place regarding security access considering the high sensitivity of the information within the platform. This applies to both non-production as well as production tenants
- Ensure integrations to Workday, as the single source of truth for HR data, follows Rio Tinto’s current standards to maintain data integrity
- Oversee the implementation of new features and functions in Workday in line with prioritised business needs
- Find and mitigate Workday platform risks to a level acceptable within Rio Tinto risk matrix
- Ensure platform DR plans are developed, agreed with the software vendor (Workday), regularly reviewed and maintained
- Oversee the twice-yearly Workday releases
- Identify and implement opportunities for system optimisation and efficiencies
- Stay abreast of Workday releases and updates to effectively manage their impact.
- Oversee the development and maintenance of a release and environment management calendar for Workday
- Managing relationships and outcomes with external vendors, including software providers and Outsourcing Partners

**What you’ll bring**
- A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
- 10+ years working in IT operations, software development or DevOps environment ideal
- Demonstrated experience with end-to-end ownership of HR systems within an enterprise organisation, with global reach
- Demonstrated leadership experience managing both internal and outsourced resources
- Understanding of SaaS models
- Working with SaaS support structures
- Working in a partially or wholly outsourced environment, with multiple stakeholders
- Strong business engagement/stakeholder management expertise.
- Broad business process understanding with knowledge of impacts of business decisions and changes

**What we offer**
- Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you have helped the world progress.
- A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
- A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
- A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
- Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidized private health insurance for employees and immediate family
- Attractive share ownership plan
- Company provided insurance cover
- Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options
- Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership goals.
- Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support
- Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
- Flexible working arrangements.

**About Rio Tinto**

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition an



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