Solution Architect

Company Description

CREATIVITY IS OUR SUPERPOWER. It’s our heritage and it’s also our future. Because we don’t just make toys. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire fans, entertain audiences and develop children through play. Mattel is at its best when every member of our team feels respected, included, and heard—when everyone can show up as themselves and do their best work every day. We value and share an infinite range of ideas and voices that evolve and broaden our perspectives with a reach that extends into all our brands, partners, and suppliers.

The Team:

Corporate Systems, in the Global Technology Organization (GTO), manages the overall performance and global delivery of projects covering the Finance, Accounting, Financial Reporting, and Human Resources portfolios. This team is the main liaison between our business partners and our IT support and development teams. We ensure application stability through our outsourced production support vendor and deliver technology capabilities that transform our business operations in partnership with Finance and HR globally.

Job Description

The Opportunity: 

Mattel has leveraged the Workday HCM platform to enable our HR department to fulfill their strategy of modernizing Mattel employees’ end to end HR experience. The US Payroll is being processed in PeopleSoft, including all Time and Labor setup, while UKG (formally Kronos) timeclocks provide the raw punch data to PeopleSoft. Other Mattel locations across the globe are using various other applications to process their payroll and track time. Mattel is currently evaluating the payroll and time processes globally to determine the best path for the future. The goal is to determine where consolidation may be conducive to streamline the flow of data while increasing efficiencies across the globe.

We need you to join in on the excitement!

Mattel is currently seeking a PeopleSoft HCM Staff Systems (Integrations and Reporting) Analyst to help our HR Business Partners further leverage the existing PeopleSoft Time and Labor rules/setup. This role reports into El Segundo but can be remote. This role will be a member of a dynamic team focused on the enhancement/sustainment of the existing PeopleSoft Payroll process / T&L rules. This role will help lead and execute follow-on projects and rollouts to any future Payroll / T&L applications. The ideal candidate will demonstrate the ability to work with cross-functional, multi-project teams to ensure integrations, reporting, and IT-related solutions are delivered on-time and on budget in accordance with the defined scope, timeline, and budget. The PeopleSoft HCM Staff Systems Analyst is also responsible for planning, scheduling, developing, and controlling all integration and report-related project activities toward these objectives, applying PeopleSoft knowledge, technical, theoretical and managerial skills to satisfy project requirements, while building positive professional relationships with stakeholders, vendors and project team members.

What Your Impact Will Be: 

• Deliver Integration and Reporting utilizing the PeopleSoft PeopleTools framework.
• Establishing alignment to integration standards and the correct selection of technologies
• Developing integration requirements robust enough to ensure the end product meets the original business requirement.
• Engaging with 3rd parties as appropriate
• Engaging other support teams as required to deliver new or changed integrations.
• Making recommendations to support continued service improvements.
• Leading critical issue management and resolutions with appropriate teams.
• Report status and escalate issues/risks to GTO leadership.
• Work with internal teams and vendors to document project scope, develop estimates and schedules and track schedules for various enhancements and technology initiatives for HR.
• Be a point of escalation for issue resolution and risk mitigation for the payroll group, supporting the PeopleSoft application, including management and overseeing of production support issues.
• Be the main liaison between the payroll organization and various departments in IT, supporting projects and critical business activities, such as regular payroll processing as well as yearend processing.
• Will work with internal customers and external consultants, supporting project and operational tasks, as they relate to the PeopleSoft system, such as integrations, reporting, managing the production support resources, and supporting the HRIS resources with PeopleSoft-related activities and tasks.
• Understands business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements and recommends solutions to enable the HR organization to achieve their goals.

Qualifications

What We’re Looking For: 

• Bachelor’s degree in technical discipline. Postgraduate or MBA preferred but not required.
• 7+ years’ experience in HCM/HR platforms with at least 5+ years’ experience in PeopleSoft.
• PeopleSoft Payroll and/or Time and Labor experience required.
• PeopleSoft Certification preferred but not required.
• PeopleSoft functional and configuration experience is preferred but not required.
• BIRT Reporting Technologies is preferred but not required.
• Excellent critical thinking skills to help address and resolve business issues for the payroll organization.
• Strong teamwork, communication and interpersonal skills
• Familiarity with PeopleSoft application support on a global level.
• Ability to act to resolve issue preventing the team from working effectively.
• Ability to exhibit PeopleSoft functional/technical capabilities and PeopleSoft PeopleTools experience.
• Exhibit technical integration experience with 3rd parties.
• Ability to work in a global/virtual team.
• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of users and be able to effectively lead and facilitate requirements or project status meetings.
• Work with existing support teams to manage issues and develop enhancement opportunities.
• Work with multiple departments to document and validate current and future state business and technical requirements.
• Lead System testing and coordinate production implementations
• Persistent attention to detail
• Demonstrated a growth mindset by staying curious and continuously learning, embracing challenges, and improving themselves.

The annual base salary range for this position is between $125,000 and $140,000
**This range is indicative of projected hiring range, however annual base salary will be determined based on a candidate’s work location, skills and experience.

Additional Information

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Mattel we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
How We Work:
We are a purpose driven company aiming to empower generations to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential. We live up to our purpose employing the following behaviors:

• We collaborate: Being a part of Mattel means being part of one team with shared values and common goals. Every person counts and working closely together always brings better results. Partnership is our process and our collective capabilities is our superpower.
• We innovate: At Mattel we always aim to find new and better ways to create innovative products and experiences. No matter where you work in the organization, you can always make a difference and have real impact. We welcome new ideas and value new initiatives that challenge conventional thinking.
• We execute: We are a performance-driven company. We strive for excellence and are focused on pursuing best-in-class outcomes. We believe in accountability and ownership and know that our people are at their best when they are empowered to create and deliver results.

Our Approach to Flexible Work:

We embrace a flexible work model designed to empower a culture of growth, optimism, and wellbeing, where every employee can reach their full potential. Combining purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility, our focus is to optimize performance and drive connection for moments that matter.

Who We Are:

Mattel is a leading global toy and family entertainment company and owner of one of the most iconic brand portfolios in the world. We engage consumers and fans through our franchise brands, including Barbie, Hot Wheels, Fisher-Price, American Girl, Thomas & Friends, UNO, Masters of the Universe, Matchbox, Monster High, MEGA and Polly Pocket, as well as other popular properties that we own or license in partnership with global entertainment companies. Our offerings include toys, content, consumer products, digital and live experiences. Our products are sold in more than 195 countries in collaboration with the world’s leading retail and ecommerce companies.

Mattel is recognized as a Great Place to Work™ and as one of Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators in 2022.
Visit us at https://jobs.mattel.com/ and www.instagram.com/MattelCareers.
Mattel is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer where we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day. We welcome all job seekers including minorities, females, veterans, military spouses, individuals with disabilities, and those of all sexual orientations and gender identities.

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