Workforce Management Functional Consultant (UKG/Kronos/ATOSS)

Job Title: Workforce Management Functional Consultant (UKG/Kronos/ATOSS)
Location: London (x2 days onsite per week)
Salary/Rate: £450-500 per day
Start Date: May
Job Type: Inside IR35 Contract (1-2 years)

Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading consultancy clients! They are currently looking for a skilled Workforce Management Functional Consultant to join their team for a 1-2 year contract.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives
You will be responsible for owning the end-to-end requirements and solution design for a Time & Attendance, absence management and Scheduling transformation across multiple countries, legal entities, and employee populations.

• Lead requirements and design across T&A and Scheduling workstreams (time capture, exceptions, approvals, overtime, premiums, scheduling, compliance, reporting).
• Facilitate workshops with HR, Payroll, Operations, union/works councils (where relevant), and IT to capture and validate requirements.
• Drive high-quality design artefacts, including:
  • Process maps (as-is/to-be), user journeys, RACI, and control points
  • Business functional requirement documents (BRDs), user stories, acceptance criteria, Rule workbooks (overtime, premiums, breaks, rounding, allowances, shift rules)

• Manage requirements traceability from design to build, test, and deployment; own RAID items related to scope, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Adhere to global design standards and guardrails, balancing standardisation with local legal/contractual needs.
• Partner with Technology/Solution and Configuration teams to ensure designs are buildable, testable, and supportable.
• Support test planning (SIT/UAT), data validation approach, and cutover readiness from a process perspective

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

• 5 years in T&A / Scheduling transformation and/or system implementation.
• Strong facilitation and documentation skills; able to simplify complex rules into actionable requirements.
• Experience delivering multi-country or multi-entity time implementations with strong governance.
• Knowledge of time compliance concepts: working time directives, rest rules, meal breaks, overtime, shift premiums, approvals, auditability.
• Excellent stakeholder management across Operations, HR, Payroll, and IT.
• Experience with UKG (Kronos) and/or ATOSS workforce management solutions.
• Exposure to workforce scheduling optimisation and labour planning practices.
• Strong experience of absence management requirements.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

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