Senior Workday Analyst

British Heart Foundation; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

British Heart Foundation seeks a Senior Workday Analyst to design, govern, and optimise Workday across multiple modules. You will partner with People and Technology teams to translate requirements into enterprise-grade, scalable solutions.

You will guide others, lead configurations, and ensure secure, efficient Workday operations, supporting biannual release cycles and data governance across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Workday certification(s) or Workday Pro accreditation required.
• Hands-on configuration across Core HCM and specialist modules.
• Experience in reporting, dashboards, and data governance.
• Experience with HR workflows optimising, biannual release cycle.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and governance of Workday configurations.
• Coach junior analysts and advise stakeholders.
• Collaborate with People Directorate to translate requirements.
• Ensure security, integrations, and BP logic considerations.
• Support Workday release cycles and optimisations.

Skills

Workday expertise

Core HCM

Workday reporting

Dashboards

Requirements gathering

Data cleansing

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Education

Workday certification

Tools

Workday Integrations

Job description

We’re passionate about providing our valued supporters with the best possible experience, making it as easy as possible to get involved with British Heart Foundation’s (BHF) mission to help fund lifesaving research.

As our Senior Functional Analyst for our Workday platform you'll be responsible for configuring, maintaining, and optimising Workday across multiple modules. You'll partner with our People Directorate and wider organisation, as required, to translate requirements into scalable, compliant, and user-centre Workday solutions.

A key specialist role within our Technology Directorate, you'll be responsible for leading the design, alongside the BHF Architect, Tenant optimisation, and governance of Workday across British Heart Foundation (BHF) and will provide Workday functional expertise across Core HCM and multiple specialist modules, shaping the strategic evolution of Workday to support organisational, People, and technology ambitions.

You'll act as a senior Workday expert, guiding and coaching other analysts, advising stakeholders across Technology and People, and ensuring BHF maximises its investment in Workday through scalable, future-ready, user-centred solutions that support BHF’s roadmap.

Working arrangements

This is a hybrid role, where your work will be split between your home and at least one day per week, on average, in our London Office, this is normally a Tuesday or Wednesday. This may vary from time to time, so you will need to work in a flexible way to unlock your best work for our cause.

About you

With a Workday certification(s), or Workday Pro accreditation, you’ll have proven, advanced, Workday expertise, with previous hands‑on configuration experience across Core HCM and multiple specialist modules, able to design and govern enterprise grade configurations.

You’ll be skilled in Workday reporting, dashboards, calculated fields, EIB uploads, audits, and data cleansing to ensure accuracy and efficiency, and will have previous experience optimising HR workflows, gathering requirements, mapping processes, and supporting Workday’s biannual release cycle.

Highly proficient in Workday reporting, dashboards, Prism/analytics, calculated fields, and data governance frameworks, you’ll have a strong understanding of Workday security, integrations, EIBs, BP logic, condition rules, and downstream impacts.

You’ll have the following skills and experience:

• Experience with Workday integrations.


• Familiarity with both project and product (Agile) delivery methodologies.


• Exposure to automation or AI within HR technology.


• Experience working in complex, matrixed, organisation.


• Experience leading configuration and product enhancements within a complex, multimodule Workday environment


• Experience in technology enabled transformation, automation, or AI within HR technology ecosystems.


• Able to take a collaborative approach to work you’ll be proactive about finding better ways of doing things and building your technical know-how. You’ll have excellent communication and presentation skills and will be able to think critically and constructively challenge and interrogate information.

Able to work in Agile and hybrid delivery models across product and project environments, you’ll have previous exposure to working in a complex, matrixed organisation, ideally with a blend of strategic and operational responsibilities.

Belonging

We celebrate and value the diversity of the communities we serve, recognising that embracing different perspectives and backgrounds strengthens our organisation and drives innovation. By fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and supported, we are better equipped to achieve our mission of helping people have a healthier heart for longer.

To hear from our people, check out Belonging at BHF.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. By funding research across six decades, we’ve helped keep millions of hearts beating and millions of families together. We’re investing in ground‑breaking research that will get us closer than ever to a world where everyone has a healthier heart for longer

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