Senior Workday Analyst (HCM, Recruiting, Talent & Performance)

Senior Workday Analyst (HCM, Recruiting, Talent & Performance)

A good client of mine, a leading professional services company are currently looking for a Senior HR Workday Analyst to support the transition and evolution of their new Workday system into BAU.

What you will be responsible for:

• Support the ongoing development and delivery of the Workday product strategy, ensuring alignment with the clients People and Business strategies. Monitor emerging Workday capabilities and advise on how new features could enhance value delivery
• Configure, maintain and enhance Workday modules across a range of modules supporting the platform's evolution from MVP to full adoption, and actively contributing to the bi-annual release cycle through testing, analysis, and stakeholder communication.
• Identify, resolve, and communicate system issues and enhancements.
• Serve as a strong consultative partner to business users and functional SMEs.
• Partner with People, IT, and wider business teams to embed and enhance the Workday system, driving adoption and continuous improvement while ensuring compliance with IT change governance.
• Provide clear and consistent communication and training to key stakeholders, users, and suppliers, including Process Owners, User Groups, and the IT Change Advisory Board (CAB).
• Create and maintain regular progress reports for the Product Owner.
• Support BAU processes and operating models, maintaining up-to-date documentation of system configuration, processes and capabilities.
• Support BAU HR activity, resolving queries and issues, ensuring Workday processes are followed, maintaining security, ensuring data quality is maintained, reporting needs are met and working with IT on troubleshooting integrations.

The ideal candidate will have:

• 5+ years hands on configuration of multiple HR Workday modules - particularly interest in HCM, Recruiting, Talent and Performance.
• Absence, Advanced Comp, Learning and Benefits is a plus.
• Experience streamlining HR processes and workflows
• Understanding of Workday security and access roles
• Ability to build and maintain reports, calculated fields and dashboard
• Experience setting up Workday Journeys and designing surveys
• Skills in requirements gathering, user stories, and journey mapping
• Involvement in project planning and continuous improvement
• Experience of testing support and issue tracking
• Experience supporting Workday's bi-annual release cycle
• Ability to maintain data quality, perform audits, and support data cleansing initiatives