Workday Security Specialist

Focus on WD; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 82,656 - 123,984; Full time

Job summary

Focus on WD is seeking a Workday Security Consultant for an initial 6-month contract to support security configuration and governance across the organisation.

You'll work with HRIS, HR, Payroll, Finance and technology stakeholders to configure security, review access, and implement changes, audits and testing.

Candidates should have hands-on Workday security experience and strong communication skills to operate in a customer-side environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Workday Security configuration experience.
• Experience with security groups, domains, business process policies and role assignments.
• Understanding of Workday HCM security and organisational structures.
• Experience troubleshooting access and security-related issues.
• Experience supporting security audits, access reviews and testing.
• Strong documentation and stakeholder communication skills.
• Ability to work independently within a customer-side Workday environment.

Responsibilities

• Configure and maintain Workday security groups, domains and BPM security.
• Support role-based, user-based and organisation-based security requirements.
• Review security access requests and investigate access-related issues.
• Support security changes across Workday HCM and related modules.
• Complete security audits, access reviews and remediation activity.
• Support testing, documentation and deployment of security changes.
• Partner with internal teams to understand requirements and recommend suitable security solutions.
• Support Workday releases, enhancements and ongoing security improvements.

Skills

Workday Security

Security groups

Domains

BPM policies

Role assignments

HCM security

Audits & reviews

Job description

We are supporting an established Workday customer looking to hire a Workday Security Consultant for an initial 6-month contract.

The consultant will support the day-to-day management, configuration and improvement of Workday security across the organisation. This is a customer-side role working closely with internal HRIS, HR, Payroll, Finance and technology stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Configure and maintain Workday security groups, domains and business process security.
• Support role-based, user-based and organisation-based security requirements.
• Review security access requests and investigate access-related issues.
• Support security changes across Workday HCM and related modules.
• Complete security audits, access reviews and remediation activity.
• Support testing, documentation and deployment of security changes.
• Partner with internal teams to understand requirements and recommend suitable security solutions.
• Support Workday releases, enhancements and ongoing security improvements.

Required Experience

• Hands-on Workday Security configuration experience.
• Experience with security groups, domains, business process policies and role assignments.
• Understanding of Workday HCM security and organisational structures.
• Experience troubleshooting access and security-related issues.
• Experience supporting security audits, access reviews and testing.
• Strong documentation and stakeholder communication skills.
• Ability to work independently within a customer-side Workday environment.

Preferred Experience

• Experience supporting security across both HCM and Financials.
• Understanding of segregation of duties and security governance.
• Workday Security certification or Workday Pro accreditation.
• Previous experience within a large or complex Workday customer.