Security Administrator

Security Administrator – Denver, Colorado

Do you like helping others to solve technical issues? Are you ready to join a company committed to ensure that every employee feels a sense of

belonging and is treated fairly? Join Western Union as a Security Administrator!

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In this position, you act as Western Union’s Security Administrator, serving as a technology and strategy partner to our HR Business Partners, Executive Leaders and HR Systems Team for overall security architecture and governance across the Workday platform. This includes responsibility for providing the highest level of technical and functional expertise in Workday Security and other cross functional HCM SKUs, having demonstrated independent work in the design and implementation of complex solutions, and knowledge of the capabilities and limitations within configuration and maintenance of various security groups such as role-based, user-based, segmented, intersection, aggregation, and organization memberships. Also, you will own the development, configuration responsibility, and maintenance of security policies for domains, business processes, dashboards, and reports. You will follow strict adherence to global and local data regulations such as GDPR and ensure security by design including principles such as segregation of duties and least privilege. The person in this role also supports ad hoc projects and Workday Release preparation, the enablement of new features and troubleshoots and resolves user access issues. Additionally, the role holder responds to audit requests and security-based inquiries, defines security governance and controls based on data privacy and security best practices and provides guidance and recommendations on projects, activities, enhancement requests, break fixes, etc. You must have hands-on Workday Security configuration experience including domains, BP security policies, creating security groups and authentication policies and familiarity with Workday Business Process design and Advanced Workday report writing skills.

Role Responsibilities

Data Security: 70% (primary responsibility)

• Owns overall security architecture and governance across Workday platform including HCM, Talent and Performance, Compensation, Absence, Payroll and Time Tracking.
• Provides functional guidance and knowledge to implement/maintain security configurations
• Acts as the Workday HCM Security SME on any projects, activities, enhancement requests, break fixes, etc. that require the role's expertise to provide inputs and/or identify any necessary changes to the security design.
• Development, configuration, and maintenance of security policies for Data Domains, Business
• Processes, Dashboards and Reports and configuration and maintenance of various security groups: role-based, segmented, intersection and custom security group
• Key player in developing and driving process improvement and automation initiatives
• Project management / technical lead for implementation, enhancement, & optimization projects as needed.

Data Privacy: 30% (partners with other team members and functional partners to achieve these responsibilities, may lead small, medium, or large initiatives in this area)

• Serves as a subject matter expert under the guidance of the Legal and Data Privacy teams to inform and advise on data protection and data privacy practices.
• Ensures systematic compliance audits are performed and findings are acted upon.
• Ensures risk management principles are fully integrated in data management processes.
• Partners with SMEs to ensure an accurate and up-to-date global, regional, and local data assets inventory.
• Partners with SMEs (IT, Legal, Data Privacy) to support operational process and the governance framework and serves as technical lead in the deployment of supporting security framework
• Identifies and documents the link between data and related business functions that enables system workflows, integrations between systems, automations, etc., with input from data creators, owners and consumers.
• Validates the configuration and rules for data in all HR master data systems.
• Manages small to large-sized projects to deploy processes that support or improve the people data lifecycle.

Role Requirements

• 5+ years’ overall experience
• 2+ years’ of data security and access management; 2+ years’ of data privacy / compliance / data protection experience
• Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience
• Project Management experience
• Must be able to effectively communicate complex technical content to non-technical partners
• Workday security experience

We make financial services accessible to humans everywhere. Join us for what’s next.
Western Union is positioned to become the world’s most accessible financial services company —transforming lives and communities. We’re a diverse and passionate customer-centric team of over 8,000 employees serving 200 countries and territories, reaching customers and receivers around the globe. More than moving money, we design easy-to-use products and services for our digital and physical financial ecosystem that help our customers move forward.

Just as we help our global customers prosper, we support our employees in achieving their professional aspirations. You’ll have plenty of opportunities to learn new skills and build a career, as well as receive a great compensation package. If you’re ready to help drive the future of financial services, it’s time for Western Union. Learn more about our purpose and people at https://careers.westernunion.com/

Salary
The on-target earnings range is $85,600-125,000 per year, which includes a base salary and short-term incentives that align with individual and company performance. Actual salaries will vary based on candidates’ qualifications, skills, and competencies.

Benefits
You will also have access to short-term incentives, multiple health insurance options, accident and life insurance, and access to best-in-class development platforms, to name a few (https://careers.westernunion.com/global-benefits/ ). Please see the location-specific benefits below and note that your Recruiter may share additional role-specific benefits during your interview process or in an offer of employment.

We are passionate about diversity. Our commitment is to provide an inclusive culture that celebrates the unique backgrounds and perspectives of our global teams while reflecting the communities we serve. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, religion, political affiliation, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, or veteran status. The company will provide accommodation to applicants, including those with disabilities, during the recruitment process, following applicable laws.

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