SME Talent Acquisition – Workday Transformation
Australian Catholic University (ACU)

Salary: $139,894 – $149,380 + 17% super
Location: Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane
Employment Type: 12 month fixed term contract

About the Prospect
Charterhouse Recruitment is partnering exclusively with Australian Catholic University (ACU) to recruit an experienced Talent Acquisition Subject Matter Expert (SME) to play a key role in a major, university-wide Workday ERP transformation program.

This is an exciting opportunity to combine your expertise in recruitment and talent acquisition with your knowledge of Workday, helping to shape the future of recruitment processes, systems and service delivery across a large, complex organisation.

Working within ACU's People and Capability Directorate, you will play a pivotal role in the design, configuration, testing and implementation of Workday, ensuring recruitment processes are streamlined, compliant and aligned with the university's broader transformation objectives.

Candidates based in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane are encouraged to apply, with ACU offices across all three locations.

Key Responsibilities

- Provide specialist expertise across the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle, ensuring Workday solutions align with organisational policies, governance and operational requirements.
- Lead requirements gathering, stakeholder workshops and process improvement initiatives.
- Translate complex recruitment and HR business requirements into practical Workday solutions.
- Support the design, configuration, testing and implementation of Workday Recruiting and Core HCM functionality.
- Develop and validate recruitment testing scenarios, ensuring solutions meet business requirements.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across HR, Finance, IT and wider business functions to deliver successful transformation outcomes.
- Contribute to change management,



training and adoption activities to support the transition to new systems and processes.

About You
You will bring:

- Significant experience across talent acquisition, recruitment operations or HR, ideally within a large or complex organisation.
- Experience working on a Workday implementation, transformation or optimisation program.
- Strong understanding of Workday Recruiting, Core HCM and the relationship between recruitment and wider HR processes.
- Demonstrated experience translating business requirements into practical system solutions and process improvements.
- Proven ability to engage and influence stakeholders across multiple business functions.
- Experience supporting system testing, process design and implementation activities.
- Strong analytical, communication and problem-solving skills.
- Relevant postgraduate qualifications or an equivalent combination of education, training and professional experience.

Experience within higher education or similarly complex organisations will be highly regarded.

Employee Benefits
ACU staff members work under an Enterprise Agreement, with a range of attractive benefits including:

- Annual leave loading.
- 17% employer superannuation contributions.
- Additional annual leave days.
- Salary packaging, dependent on personal circumstances.
- Flexible work arrangements.

How to apply

Charterhouse Recruitment is managing this opportunity exclusively on behalf of ACU. If you're an experienced change leader looking to contribute to a significant transformation program, we'd love to hear from you.

Click APPLY or contact Consultant Rebecca on *******@charterhouse.com.au for a confidential discussion

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At Charterhouse, we embrace, and value, diversity of culture, working arrangements, sexual orientation, and gender identity. On behalf of our client, we promote a workplace that actively seeks to include and welcome unique contributions of all people; to embrace and celebrate the value of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, their skills, and contributions to the workplace.

📌 SME Talent Acquisition - Workday Transformation (Melbourne)
🏢 Charterhouse
📍 Melbourne