Elizabeth Beecheno
Director HR Systems and Tools @Simpro Software
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WORK HISTORY
Director HR Systems and Tools @Simpro Software
GB
Workday Product Ownership & Strategic Roadmap: Served as the Workday Platform Manager for a global organisation, owning the full management and long-term deployment strategy for 12 Workday modules.• Architecture & Deployment: Led the end-to-end deployment of Workday for approximately 500 users across 6 countries. • Team Leadership & Management: Responsible for managing a team of 2 Workday Analysts, providing mentorship, performance guidance, and delegating platform configuration and support tasks.• Enterprise Integration Strategy & Architecture: Collaborated closely with IT partners to define the strategy for building a middleware platform; designed Workday as the single source of truth to automatically update all downstream systems.• Workday Strategic Module Deployment (Future/Roadmap Capability): Proven capability in the configuration, deployment, and long-term management of key strategic Workday products, including Workday Help, Advanced Compensation, Peakon (Employee Experience), and Adaptive Planning (Financial Planning), ensuring alignment with wider enterprise architecture and business strategy.• Governance & Optimisation: Managed all aspects of Workday Release Management, including testing, user training, and comprehensive analysis of downstream system effects.• Driving Digital Employee Experience: Demonstrated strategic vision by researching and procuring additional tools and systems to improve the HR Systems infrastructure, driving adoption by meeting the employee where they work with HR tasks using collaboration tools like Google Suite.• Data & Reporting: Drove data-informed decisions by creating multiple bespoke reporting dashboards, including Compensation, External Payroll, Executive Reporting, and My Team Management dashboards.• Integration Management: Successfully project-managed the deployment of the Cloudpay payroll integration across 6 countries, including full testing and validation.
EDUCATION
University of Southampton
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Economics
ABOUT ELIZABETH BEECHENO
Highly accomplished and results-driven Workday HRIS Product Lead with 6+ years of dedicated Workday Platform Management and Strategic Product Ownership experience. A passionate advocate for improving Employee Experience through Digital Platforms and driving data analytics. Expertise in owning the full Workday HCM suite lifecycle, including strategic roadmap management, governance, platform optimisation, and release management across complex, multi-national organizations (6+ countries – 4 companies). Proven ability to serve as the \"Product Champion,\" managing third-party SI partnerships, driving solution architecture, and ensuring alignment with wider enterprise strategy. Adept at researching and procuring additional tools to support the HR Systems infrastructure and driving a culture of meeting the employee where they work with HR related tasks using platforms like Slack and Google.• Workday Expertise: Core HCM, Recruit, Absence, Expenses, Journeys, Talent, Time Tracking, US Benefits, Compensation (Advanced), Performance, Help, Peakon, Third Party Payroll.• Key Skills: Product Roadmapping, Solution Architecture, Release Management, Workday Security, Governance, GDPR/EU Compliance.
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