HRIS Workday & Data, Team Lead

Are you looking to have an impact on the daily life of millions of entrepreneurs in France (and tomorrow in Europe)?

Are you looking for a work environment that values trust, proactivity, and autonomy?

Then Pennylane is the right place for you !

Our vision

We aim to become the most beloved financial Operating System of French SMEs and Accounting Firms (and soon, European ones).

We help entrepreneurs rid themselves of time-consuming tasks related to accounting and finance while providing them with access to key financial information to assist in making the best decisions for their business.

About us

Pennylane is one of the fastest growing Fintechs in France (and soon to be in Europe!)

In 6 years of existence, we’ve managed to :

Make ourselves known as a groundbreaking accounting and financial software for small businesses and their accountants

Raise a total of €400 millions, including from Sequoia, the famous fund from the Silicon Valley who invested early in companies like Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Stripe, Paypal and much more...

Grow from 7 cofounders to 1000 happy Pennylaners : we’re now recognized as one of the greatest places to work in France (and also remotely), with a 4.6/5 rating on Glassdoor.

Build an international environment with more than 25 nationalities, with a strong remote-friendly culture, where 30% of the employees are already working from all parts of Europe

Earn the trust of thousands of customers and accounting firms and obtain outstanding ratings

Already more than 1 500,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and over 8000 accounting firms use Pennylane in France!

About the role

We are a fast-growing scale-up in the midst of an exciting international expansion. Following the successful launch of Workday as our core HCM platform, we are now looking for an HRIS Workday & Data Lead to own the post-launch journey and drive the continuous improvement of our HR tech ecosystem.

This is a strategic and hands-on manager role within the HR function, working in close collaboration with IT, Finance, and Business teams. You will lead a small but high-impact team of two Workday HRIS Experts and one HR Data Analyst, ensuring our HR systems are scalable, secure, and aligned with the company's growth trajectory.

You will be the go-to expert and decision-maker for everything related to Workday configuration & evolution, HR data & integrations with our HR tools – acting as a true functional project lead

Key responsibilities

Team leadership & organization

• Manage, mentor, and develop a team of 2 Workday HRIS Experts and 1 HR Data Analyst

• Organise team work using project plans and agile sprint methodologies

• Prioritize the team backlog based on business impact, urgency, and capacity

• Foster a culture of documentation and knowledge sharing (Notion)

• Ensure team members grow in expertise and are continuously upskilled on Workday releases and new features

Workday post-launch excellence

• Own the Workday post-go-live roadmap : continuous improvement, optimization, and adoption

• Challenge and rechallenge existing Workday configurations: identify gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities to better leverage the platform

• Act as the internal functional project lead: translate HR business needs into functional and technical requirements, lead solution design, UAT, and deployment

• Stay ahead of Workday product updates and bi-annual releases; assess and implement relevant new features

• Maintain and improve Workday security : role-based access control, data privacy, audit compliance

Stakeholder collaboration & prioritization

• Collaborate closely with IT, Finance, HR Leadership, Talent Acquisition and Business teams to gather needs, align on priorities, and communicate roadmap decisions

• Facilitate prioritization workshops and steering committees with key stakeholders

• Serve as the main point of contact between HR Operations and the broader tech organization

• Challenge stakeholder requests and provide expert recommendations grounded in Workday best practices

Integrations & HR Tech Ecosystem

• Oversee and manage integrations between Workday and third-party tools (Ashby for recruiting, Silae for payroll, and others)

• Identify opportunities to connect or improve connections with new tools as the company scales

• Partner with IT to ensure integration architecture is robust, secure, and maintainable

• Maintain an up-to-date map of the HR tech stack and integration landscape

AI & automation innovation

• Explore and assess Workday’s emerging AI and extensibility capabilities, including Workday Extend, and translate relevant use cases into a pragmatic roadmap

• Evaluate how Sana Learn and other AI-enabled learning solutions can complement the Workday ecosystem and improve employee and manager experiences

• Map the automation and AI tools already used at Pennylane and identify secure, scalable opportunities to connect them with Workday processes, data, and integrations

• Lead experimentation, business-case assessment, governance, and deployment of selected AI and automation use cases in partnership with IT and relevant stakeholders

• Build the team’s capabilities on Workday AI, automation, and extensibility through training, hands-on experimentation, documentation, and knowledge sharing

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