HRIS Specialist

Company: Rullion Limited
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Rullion is offering an exciting opportunity for an HRIS Specialist ready to make an impact within a well-established rail organisation. In this role, you’ll take ownership of HR systems, supporting their ongoing development and ensuring they effectively meet the needs of the business and its workforce.

Join a forward-moving rail organisation where your expertise will help power the systems behind a workforce that keeps the country connected

Purpose of the Role:

  • Maintain the companies HR and Payroll system (Workday)
  • Configure changes across HCM, Time Tracking, Absence, Security, Integrations, Reporting and Payroll modules in Workday.
  • Manage and monitor integrations to and from Workday.
  • SME in the development of HR systems in line with the HR global/ regional strategy, maximizing the use and value of our HR Systems and tools.
  • Support the HR functional ownership, governance and controls.
  • Partner with representatives of CIO, CTO, Regional SME’s and application support teams
  • Provide best-practice guidance on Workday functionality, ensuring system scalability and adherence to legal and company compliance.
  • Co-ordinate and prioritise HR functional technology changes requests.
  • Participate in problem solving in relation to process, service, technology and data issues.
  • Creating and maintaining operational documentation in relation to the deployed HR technology and hand over into HRIS BAU and shared services.
  • The SME for how people data should be transacted and moved around between systems.
  • Supporting HRIS on best practice and continuous improvement in relation to HR systems and data.
  • Lead system implementations/ changes from project phase to BAU
  • Liaise with customers, colleagues, key stakeholders and third parties to manage system requirements
  • Lead data governance activities and audits
  • In-depth understanding of payroll processing
  • Work as part of a small team to support the business

Main duties and responsibilities:

  • Manage system performance issues and incident management
  • Configure changes i.e. new work schedules, new collective agreements, new paytype etc
  • Undertake all required trainings
  • Stay up to date with system releases and change in functionality
  • Managing and maintaining integrations
  • UAT- review scenarios to ensure functionality is compliant with HR Legislation and company policy/ processes. Complete testing.
  • Create the appropriate user documentation and procedures to support new implementations and changes, also assist in training on the updated functionality.
  • SME for HR Systems
  • Support with pay award configuration changes and data maintenance
  • Support and upload mass data changes
  • Communicates upcoming HR system changes
  • Work with regional process owners on regular basis to confirm upcoming needs, anticipates impact on change
  • Prepares cut-over plans for go-live of anything new
  • Manage position-based access in line with Company policy/ role framework/ GDPR
  • Raise any concerns/ risks appropriately
  • Work closely with the business and internal teams to drive improvements and build good working relationships
  • Manage annual maintenance activities i.e. two system releases annually.

Skills and Experience:

Essential

  • In-depth experience using HR/ Payroll Systems
  • Experienced in configuring changes in HCM, Time Tracking, Absence and/ or

Payroll.

  • Experience managing multiple downstream systems, interfaces, annual upgrade/ patching activities
  • Experience implementing change/ new solutions to support the employee life cycle
  • UAT
  • Experience managing incidents
  • Experience with people data (HR & payroll)
  • Experience using reporting tools
  • Good communication skills
  • Good working knowledge of Excel

Desirable

  • Experience using Workday/ SAP/ Oracle/ Peoplesoft/ Zellis
  • Experience in automation
  • Understanding of complex terms and conditions
  • Experience working in a similar role, ideally within a shared services environment
  • You will have an understanding of organisation and people data, ideally in a complex business environment working with multiple sets of terms and conditions.
  • Have good understanding of common HR processes with a track record and sound knowledge of HRIS solutions and utilisation of complex multi-site, multinational matrix type business environment.

Behavioural Competencies:

  • Approaches goals and objectives with drive, energy and enthusiasm
  • Has a ‘right first time’ and ‘can do ‘attitude
  • Generates ideas
  • Delivers excellent customer service
  • Proactive approach to work and uses own initiative to implement improvements
  • Embraces new challenges, is hands on operationally and gets things done
  • Sets high standards of work for self, and team, and consistently achieves these
  • Commitment to good governance
  • Listens attentively to others’ perspectives and provides constructive feedback and coaching
  • Adhere to core values
  • Rullion celebrates and supports diversity and is committed to ensuring equal opportunities for both employees and applicants.

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    Posted: May 7th, 2026