Department: People and Communications
Posting Date: June 05, 2026
At OPTrust, paying pensions today, preserving pensions for tomorrow is our mission and business.
When you choose OPTrust, you join a team of smart, talented people who fuel our success and have a passion for pensions. Everyone at OPTrust – from London, Toronto, and Sydney – makes a meaningful impact, our environment is fast paced, but we find time to have fun and give back to the community as well. Our strength resides in our team members with different backgrounds and perspectives creating an inclusive and fulfilling place to work for everyone.
Unique culture rooted in our core values – collaboration and teamwork, integrity, respect, flexibility, and excellence and continuous improvement – reflected across the team.
If you strive for excellence and continuous improvement, value a collaborative and flexible team culture, and approach everything with integrity and respect, then we invite you to apply to join our team!
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Workday Specialist to join our team. As a Workday Specialist, you’ll work in a team to implement Workday solutions that will shape how OPTrust uses technology to automate and streamline processes. You will build relationships not only within the People Team, but across the organization as you partner with various departments. In this role, you will be reporting to the Senior Manager, HR Technology and Operations, working alongside one other Workday Specialist, as a team of three.
Act as the Workday configuration lead for HCM, Absence, Time Tracking and Recruiting. This includes ownership of reporting and security within these domains. Experience with Workday Payroll (Canada) is considered an asset, including a strong understanding of how upstream configurations impact payroll outcomes.
Support Workday biannual releases, including regression testing across key business processes and completion of any configuration updates. Partner with stakeholders across the People Team to validate changes, assess deprecated functionality, and ensure a seamless transition from preview to production.
Partner cross-functionally within the organization to gather requirements, translate business needs into system solutions, and configure, test, and validate Workday functionality.
Design, build, and maintain Workday reports and dashboards to support strategic and operational decision‑making. Partner cross-functionally to understand reporting needs, translate them into scalable solutions, and deliver timely, accurate, and actionable insights.
Document requirements, business processes, and test scenarios in a clear and structured manner. This includes maintaining accurate documentation of configuration changes to support audit readiness and compliance requirements.
Manage day-to-day HR operations and support, including monitoring the HR inbox, responding to employee inquiries, fulfilling ad hoc reporting requests, troubleshooting system issues, and escalating to Workday support as required.
3 - 5 years of experience in the Workday ecosystem, with strong hands-on configuration experience across HCM, Absence, Time Tracking, and Recruiting, including reporting and security.
Workday Pro certifications in relevant areas such as HCM, Time Tracking/Absence, Recruiting, Reporting, and/or Security are preferred.
Experience supporting Workday biannual releases, including impact analysis, regression testing, and configuration updates.
High attention to detail, with experience documenting requirements, test scenarios, and configuration changes to support audit and compliance needs.
Please submit your application via Workday by June 19, 2026.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
The base salary range for this position ranges from $90,000 to $120,000.
The exact placement within the range will vary based on a variety of factors including: the candidate's knowledge, skills and experience relative to the requirements of the role, internal peers and the external market. In addition to base pay, this role is eligible to participate in the OPTrust incentive program, the defined benefit pension plan and comprehensive benefits.
Serving a membership as diverse as ours and investing in a global market means cultivating an environment that embraces inclusion, diversity, and equity in everything we do. OPTrust is an organization engaged in building on our unique and diverse strengths. We know a diversity of backgrounds, cultures, gender identities and perspectives are critical to achieving our shared goals.
If you require accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, please send a message to [email protected], or discuss your needs with the Talent Acquisition Consultant during the telephone screening. We will do our best to work with you and provide appropriate accommodation.
As an organization we’re seeking ways to respond to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Call to Action 92. We are working with the Canadian Council for Indigenous Business to build bridges with Indigenous communities and partners, and we have created an employee-led Reconciliation Working Group that will work with Indigenous experts to identify a path to reconciliation for our organization.
We thank all interested applicants, however only those under consideration will be contacted.
