HRIS & Data Specialist
About People’s Partnership
At the heart of our not-for-profit organisation is a commitment and a motivation to make the future-saving experience a simple one for our members. We champion fairness and simplicity, not profit-chasing. Imagine a financial adventure where everyone’s a winner, fuelled by our exceptional service and brought to life by the fantastic individuals who work for us. We’re a diverse employer with a flexible, hybrid working approach, ensuring everyone gets the opportunity to come to work and be the best version of themselves.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Acts as the single point of accountability for Dayforce, ensuring the system supports the business, not constrain it. Providing strategic ownership, cost control, risk reduction, metrics reporting and continuous improvement capability.
- System Maintenance and Stability such as Day‑to‑day system health monitoring, Issue investigation, root‑cause analysis, and resolution and Payroll and WFM configuration checks to prevent errors.
- Data integrity and reporting
- Release Management and System Updates (Review Dayforce release notes and assess business impact, Coordinate testing, regression checks and sign‑off, Manage deployment of new features and fixes, Communicate changes clearly to stakeholders)
- Configuration, Integrations and Enhancements (Build and maintain configurations across HR, Payroll, WFM, Benefits and Talent, Build and maintain integrations with interfaces such as Power BI, Service Now.)
- Act as the bridge between business teams and technical system design
- Expert Power BI and Excel user to ensure alignment with the finance and in house reporting teams dashboard production.
What We’re Looking For
- Proven hands‑on experience administering and supporting Dayforce enterprise solution.
- Strong functional knowledge across HR, Payroll and Workforce Management, with experience operating in a live payroll environment.
- Demonstrated experience in day‑to‑day system monitoring, issue investigation, root cause analysis and resolution.
- Strong background in data integrity, reconciliation and reporting, including investigating and resolving reporting discrepancies.
- Hands‑on experience building, scheduling and maintaining system reports.
- Advanced Excel skills and strong capability using Power BI, with experience aligning outputs to Finance and internal reporting teams.
- Experience managing system releases and updates, including reviewing release notes, assessing business impact, coordinating testing and supporting sign‑off.
- Experience maintaining system documentation, supporting audits and operating within change control and governance frameworks.
- Recognised as a go‑to system expert, able to support complex queries across People, Payroll and IT teams.
What you can expect from us:
- Generous pension contributions with an employer contribution of up to 14%
- Real living wage
- Income protection, critical illness cover & death in service insurance
- Employee healthcare
- Parental and adoption leave
- Learning & development opportunities and study support
- Travel season ticket loans
- Grab & Go Deli Café at our Crawley offices
- Volunteering days and charity payroll giving
- Onsite gym
- Ride-to-Work scheme
- Social clubs and events
You can learn more about how we support our employees on our website
Disability Statement
People’s Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to treating all our people (and all who apply for a role at People’s Partnership) equally and enabling them to perform at their best and demonstrate what they have to offer. This role may support hybrid working. To make use of this arrangement, employees must have an appropriate home working environment, including a private workspace and reliable, secure high speed internet that enables them to perform their duties effectively. We are a disability committed employer, please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments made to our recruitment process (application, selection assessments where relevant, and interview) to enable you to show us the best “you”.
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