About the Company
A large organisation within the higher education sector, operating in a complex enterprise environment with modern HR, payroll, workforce management, and identity platforms. The organisation is undertaking significant integration-led transformation across its HR and payroll technology landscape.
About the Role
This role supports the functional analysis and delivery of integrations across a complex ST&A and payroll ecosystem, including Workday HCM, UKG (T&A/WFM), Dayforce aPay, Okta, Saviynt, and associated analytics and legacy systems.
You will work closely with business stakeholders, solution architects, integration developers, vendors, and testing teams to gather and validate requirements, support integration design, analyse and reconcile data flows, and assist through testing, cutover, and go-live. A strong focus of the role is ensuring data accuracy, integrity, and alignment across systems using integration-led data movement rather than spreadsheet-based migration.
About You
You are an experienced Integration or HR Systems Business Analyst who is comfortable working across business and technical teams in complex environments. You have strong experience analysing system integrations, data mappings, and workflows, and you are confident supporting testing cycles, reconciliation activities, and go-live readiness. You communicate clearly, document thoroughly, and thrive in multi-system, enterprise programs.
Key Skills & Experience
- Experience gathering and validating functional and non-functional requirements for system integrations
- Strong understanding of HR, payroll, time and attendance, and workforce management processes
- Hands-on experience working with HRIS, payroll, or WFM platforms such as Workday, UKG, or Dayforce
- Experience documenting integration specifications, data mappings, transformations, and workflows
- Data analysis skills, including identifying data quality issues, anomalies, and reconciliation variances
- Experience supporting integration, system, and end-to-end testing activities
Nice to Have
- Experience with identity or access management platforms (Okta, Saviynt or similar)
- Exposure to integration-led data migration and cutover activities
- Higher education or large enterprise environment experience
- UKG, Workday, or Dayforce certifications
Please apply with current resume in Microsoft Word format only (.doc or .docx). If you would like to have a confidential discussion, please contact Dylan Tasker on dylan.tasker@davidsonwp.com , quoting reference JN -022026-42382. Want to know more about Davidson? Visit us at www.davidsonwp.com
