Senior Workday HCM Analyst

TAL Life LTD; Greater London; On-site; GBP 101,000 - 194,000; Part time

Job summary

MiQ is seeking a Senior HCM Workday Analyst (contractor) for a 3-month engagement in London. You will configure Core HCM, Compensation, Absence, Recruitment and Performance, and build robust reports and dashboards to support workforce planning.

The role requires 5+ years hands-on Workday HCM configuration, strong security and job-architecture knowledge, and experience across multi-country environments. You will collaborate with external partners and support ongoing Workday releases and projects.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience configuring Workday HCM
• Strong configuration experience across HCM, Security, Recruitment, Compensation, Job Architecture, Reporting, and Performance
• Experience troubleshooting business processes, security, and integrations in a multi-country/global environment
• Solid understanding of job architecture and related components (job profiles, job families, competencies, compensation grades)
• Strong reporting and data skills (reports, data validation, calculated fields)
• Experience supporting integrations across payroll, recruitment, absence, and learning modules

Responsibilities

• Configure and maintain Workday HCM modules, including Core HCM, Compensation, Absence, Recruitment, and Performance.
• Build, test, and troubleshoot business processes for hiring, position management, compensation changes, job changes, terminations, and delegations.
• Maintain job profiles, job families, competencies, and management levels per MiQ's job architecture; configure and maintain security groups and RBAC; resolve access issues.
• Build and maintain reports, dashboards, and calculated fields to support workforce reporting, headcount tracking, and data validation.
• Diagnose and resolve day-to-day Workday tickets and configuration issues; escalate complex platform issues as needed.
• Support testing and configuration for Workday releases and enhancements with external partners (e.g., CloudRock); support in-flight projects (Geo expansions, Peakon, M&A) and Workday tickets.

Job description

Job Description Role: Senior HCM Workday Analyst (contractor 3 months) Reporting to: ERP HCM Lead Location: London

Key Responsibilities

• Configure and maintain Workday HCM modules, including Core HCM, Compensation, Absence, Recruitment, and Performance.
• Build, test, and troubleshoot business processes for hiring, position management, compensation changes, job changes, terminations, and delegations.
• Maintain job profiles, job families, competencies, and management levels in line with MiQ's job architecture, Configure, review and maintain security groups and role-based access for the business , resolving access issues as they arise.
• Build and maintain reports, dashboards, and calculated fields to support workforce reporting, headcount tracking, and data validation.
• Diagnose and resolve day-to-day Workday tickets and configuration issues, escalating complex platform issues to Workday or vendors/consultants where needed.
• Support testing and configuration work for Workday releases and enhancements, working alongside external implementation partners (e.g., CloudRock) as required.
• Support current in-flight projects e.g. Geo expansions, Peakon, Performance and future mergers and acquisitions and also Workday help tickets.

What you’ll bring

• 5+ years of hands‑on experience configuring Workday HCM.
• Strong, demonstrable configuration experience across HCM, Security, Recruitment, Compensation, Job Architecture, Reporting, and Performance.
• Experience troubleshooting business processes, security, and integrations in a multi-country/global environment.
• Solid understanding of job architecture and the importance and maintenance of it, including job profiles, job families, competencies, and compensation grades
• Strong reporting and data skills — building reports, validating data, creating calculated fields and identifying data quality issues.
• Strong business process knowledge to review existing processes, identify issues and improve & automate the processes, removing manual steps where necessary and implementing manager self service.
• Experience supporting integrations across payroll, recruitment, absence, and learning modules.

We’ve highlighted some key skills, experience and requirements for this role. But please don’t worry if you don’t meet every single one. Our talent team strives to find the best people. They might see something in your background that fits this role, or another opportunity at MiQ. If you have a passion for the role, please still apply.

What’s in it for you MiQ is incredibly proud to foster a welcoming culture. We do everything possible to make sure everyone feels valued for what they bring. With global teams committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, we’re always moving towards becoming an even better place to work.

Values:

• We do what we love - Passion
• We figure it out - Determination
• We anticipate the unexpected - Agility
• We always unite - Unite
• We dare to be unconventional - Courage

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