HR Systems Specialist

As a HR Systems Specialist your responsibility will be to provide quality assurance of NI Water’s HR & Payroll systems and process development, to support the implementation of a new integrated HR & Payroll system, and to support the ongoing digital requirements of the HR directorate. Northern Ireland Water are consistently ranked in the top 10 of Northern Ireland’s best 100 companies. NI Water delivers approximately 605 million litres of clean, safe drinking water to 900,000 households and businesses across Northern Ireland every day. They pride themselves on providing a world class service, delivering what matters to customers through their values of Respect, Excellence, Customer, Integrity and Sustainability that defines their organisation., * Identify system and process improvements and develop specifications and change requests by working with stakeholders and system providers and collaborate with the wider team to plan implementation.

• Plan for and test all system patches and upgrades in all HR systems by developing test plans based on system specifications and knowledge of HR and Payroll processes.
• Utilise specialist knowledge of the Corporate HR system (Oracle EBS/Fusion) and strong troubleshooting skills to proactively resolve all system related issues, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders as required to bring about an effective resolution.
• Manage system upgrades, understanding the implications for HR systems of changes and coordinating with relevant stakeholders impacted on changes, testing functionality for adoption into BAU processes.
• Provide support and advice to end users of the system, escalating issues as appropriate to other HR colleagues or more senior members of the directorate as appropriate.
• Provide training to end users on new processes as they transition from testing to business-as-usual activity.
• Develop and design training materials to support any major changes to BAU processes or as part of the new system implementation.

• Have a minimum of 5 GCSEs, Grade C or above (to include English Language and Maths) or equivalent e.g. relevant NVQ Level II.
• Have 2 years’ detailed knowledge and experience of working with HR and Payroll processes.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience working with HR/ Corporate/ Financial systems.
• Understanding of payroll process and regulations
• Testing of payroll / financial / corporate systems to provide assurance of system functionality
• Utilisation of reporting systems
• Liaison with internal stakeholders such as HR, ICT, systems colleagues and external stakeholders such as systems providers and specialists
• Proficient user of the Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc).
• Demonstrable attention to detail, good problem solving and research skills.
• As part of the reference checking and vetting process for this position you will be requested to undertake a Basic Access NI Disclosure. Having a criminal record will not necessarily be a bar to obtaining a position.

Desirable Criteria:

• Technical knowledge and experience of being an administrator or super user of an HR & Payroll integrated system and experience of testing changes.
• Previous experience of providing system support to Oracle EBS or Fusion.
• Experience of working on a large system implementation project to include data manipulation tools and techniques used for data cleansing and validation.