Workday User Access Review Analyst

About the Position

Workday User Access Review Analyst

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Company: WPP

About WPP:

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions, and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth.

We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging, and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow.

Why we're hiring:

At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT’s mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create, and thrive. WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernize ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitize colleague and client experiences, and deliver insight from WPP’s petabytes of data.

In this role, you will be a member of the Workday Services Team supporting the Workday Risk & Controls Lead. Your role will grow as we further deploy and expand our Workday coverage both geographically and capability.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and monitor UAR and work with relevant teams to keep Workday compliant.
• Run UAR processes and continually improve the process through automation.
• Ensure changes to the UAR processes are recorded and tracked correctly.
• Work closely with the Workday Security Manager to manage and maintain the UAR process.
• Ensure UAM design changes are recorded into tracking documentation.
• Use access control features in Workday and support deploying these features.
• Review access controls not only when an employee is hired or terminated, but also when roles change within the organization.
• Maintain Workday UAR process documentation.
• Champion recommendations for continuous improvement.

Requirements:

• 3+ years’ experience working in a global ERP deployment and/or BAU environment.
• Understanding of Security and Access Management design model in ERP including personas and segregation of duties within HR, Finance, and Professional Services functions.
• Experience of Tier 1 ERP solutions including Workday, SAP, Oracle, and Dynamics 365.
• Experience maintaining and monitoring User Access.
• Strong Excel and data manipulation skills.
• High level of attention to detail and accuracy.
• Develop trusted relationships with stakeholders.
• Strong organizational skills and time and task management.
• Creative solutioning and strong problem-solving skills with agility for fast and simple solutions.
• Credibility, professionalism, and strong personal integrity.

Who we are looking for:

• Open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.
• Optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology, and talent to create brighter futures for our people, our clients, and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.
• Extraordinary: We are stronger together: through collaboration, we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we offer:

• Passionate, inspired people: We aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work.
• Scale and opportunity: We offer the opportunity to create, influence, and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.
• Challenging and stimulating work: Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?

Work Location: Hybrid (teams in the office around four days a week)

Equal Opportunity Employer:

WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

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