Hybrid Workday Functional Consultant: Core HCM & Onboarding

Talenza; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 149,000 - 182,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

Talenza is seeking a Workday Functional Consultant to join the implementation project team as the HRIS operations representative. You will report to the Head of HCM & Knowledge Systems and help ensure decisions reflect business requirements and ongoing support realities.

With go-live targeted for July next year, you will attend workshops, influence design decisions, assist hands-on configuration and help establish sustainable processes for the transition into BAU.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Workday HCM knowledge and practical configuration experience.
• Experience supporting Workday in a BAU or production environment, including incident and problem management.
• Ability to assess solution options and balance business requirements with long-term supportability.

Responsibilities

• Represent the HRIS and operational support function in Workday implementation workshops and project meetings.
• Partner with HR stakeholders, business process owners and implementation teams to gather requirements and shape practical Workday solutions.
• Support Workday HCM configuration across business processes, condition rules, validations, notifications and calculated fields.
• Contribute to the implementation of Core HCM, Recruitment and Onboarding.
• Challenge unnecessary customisations and promote Workday best practices, scalability and maintainability.
• Identify operational risks, support considerations and potential issues before go-live.
• Assess enhancement requests, document functional designs and support testing, defect resolution and release readiness.
• Establish sustainable support processes, documentation and knowledge articles to support ongoing platform operations.
• Support the transition from implementation into BAU, including handover from implementation partners.
• Take ownership of Workday incidents, problems, service requests and continuous improvement following go-live.

Skills

Workday HCM

Stakeholder engagement

Workshop facilitation

Workday configuration

BAU support

Problem solving

Documentation

Testing & release management

Job description

Talenza is seeking a Workday Functional Consultant to join the implementation project team as the HRIS operations representative. You will report to the Head of HCM & Knowledge Systems and help ensure decisions reflect business requirements and ongoing support realities.

With go-live targeted for July next year, you will attend workshops, influence design decisions, assist hands-on configuration and help establish sustainable processes for the transition into BAU.