Senior Specialist, Workday Security & Governance (People Systems)

• Own and continuously improve Workday Security and Governance, ensuring a secure, scalable, compliant, and well-governed environment across modules, countries, and business areas, while driving security standards, governance processes, and best practices.
• Design, configure, and maintain Workday security, including roles, security groups, domains, business process security, and Intersection Security, applying least-privilege principles and challenging inappropriate access requirements.
• Conduct periodic security and access reviews, proactively identifying and remediating excessive access, security risks, and control gaps before they become incidents or audit findings.
• Act as the Workday Security SME for internal and external audits, ensuring controls, documentation, and evidence are audit-ready, while owning security remediation and release impact assessments across security roles, business processes, reporting, and access.
• Partner with Workday functional, technical, and business teams to design secure, scalable solutions that meet business needs while following best practices and leveraging Workday's out-of-the-box capabilities.
• Provide security governance and best-practice guidance for Workday integrations, APIs, and service accounts, partnering with the Integrations team on implementation and providing hands-on execution and remediation where required.
• Build and maintain security reports and dashboards and use Google Apps Script and other automation approaches to simplify reporting, improve visibility into access and risks, and make security insights easier to understand and act on.
• Drive continuous improvement, innovation, and cross-functional alignment across People Systems, HR, Information Security, Audit, Compliance, and functional teams, translating complex security concepts into practical, scalable solutions for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• 8+ years of hands-on Workday experience, with strong expertise across Workday HCM, Security, business processes, Reporting and calculated fields.
• Deep expertise in Workday Security, including Security Groups, Domains, Business Process Security, Intersection Security, access controls and least-privilege principles.
• Experience designing and driving Workday security governance, including periodic access reviews, risk identification, audit readiness, evidence preparation, remediation and sustainable control improvements.
• Strong understanding of Workday integrations, APIs, service accounts and release management, including assessing security/access impacts and defining best practices.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex security models, challenge requirements when needed, and balance security, compliance, business needs and Workday best practices.
• Proactive, ownership-driven and innovative mindset, with the ability to independently identify risks and opportunities, drive scalable improvements, and leverage automation tools such as Google Apps Script or similar solutions to simplify and improve processes.

Ensuring you and all our Heroes are looked after, happy, and healthy is always on the menu. Because if you’re in good shape, then we’re in good shape.

• Make the most of our hybrid working model * and join the team for face-to-face connection and collaboration in our beautiful Berlin campus 2 days a week*
• We offer 27 days holiday with an extra day on 2nd and 3rd year of service
• We will support you in developing yourself and your career growth opportunities: 1.000 € Educational Budget, Language Courses, Parental Support and access to the Udemy Business platform to explore a variety of online courses.
• Get moving and release those wonderful, mind-boosting endorphins: Health Checkups, Meditation, Gym & Bicycle Subsidy
• Cash. Dough. Cheddar. Whatever you call it, we’ll help you with it: Employee Share Purchase Plan, Sabbatical Bank, Public Transportation Ticket Discount, Life & Accident Insurance, Corporate Pension Plan
• The power of getting together over some food is unrivaled. Here are a few ways to help you do that. All the yum: Digital Meal Vouchers, Food Vouchers, Corporate Discounts. Courses.

Ready to join our team? If you’re excited to grow, collaborate and be part of the world’s leading delivery platform, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today!

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We believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring - therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, religious beliefs, color, national origin, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, age, marital or disability statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you.

We encourage you to let us know if you need any accommodations or specific accessibility support. Please let us know with an email to our Inclusion Officer at .

Severely disabled applicants with equal qualifications will be given preferential consideration.

You're welcome to share your pronouns (he/she/they) right from the start so we can address you respectfully from our first contact.

We believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring - therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, religious beliefs, color, national origin, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, age, marital or disability statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you.

We encourage you to let us know if you need any accommodations or specific accessibility support to ensure a smooth interview experience—just let us know with an email to our Inclusion Officer at .

Severely disabled applicants with equal qualifications will be given preferential consideration.

You're welcome to share your pronouns (he/she/they) right from the start so we can address you respectfully from our first contact.

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