Workday HCM Analyst

JR United Kingdom; Cheltenham; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Workday HCM Analyst where you will drive innovation across Workday solutions, ensuring data integrity and optimizing processes. This remote role emphasizes collaboration with stakeholders, detailed system configuration, and delivering actionable insights that shape strategic decisions.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable hands-on experience configuring multiple Workday HCM modules.
• Ability to analyse and interpret data to meet business needs.
• Commitment to ensuring clean and accurate data.

Responsibilities

• Configure and maintain Workday HCM modules with a focus on enhancements and fixes.
• Collaborate with People & Culture and Technology stakeholders to design solutions.
• Build custom reports and dashboards while leveraging analytics.

Skills

Workday configuration expertise

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Stakeholder communication

Job description

Social network you want to login/join with:

What if your next role let you simplify complexity, own impactful Workday solutions, and collaborate with a team that truly values your expertise?

As a Workday HCM Analyst, you will support and enhance our Workday platform by configuring HCM modules, building custom reports, and resolving system issues. You will partner closely with People & Culture and Technology stakeholders to understand their needs, optimize processes, and deliver data-driven insights that inform strategic decisions. You will also play a key role in maintaining data integrity, simplifying complex workflows, and ensuring a seamless user experience across the platform.

This is a remote role, 4 days a week.

Key Responsibilities

• Workday System Configuration & Maintenance (40%): You’ll be configuring all in-use modules across Workday HCM; that includes enhancements, fixes, and feature releases. You’ll be working across all phases of the change lifecycle, taking initial ideas through prototyping, refinement, testing and release.
• Stakeholder Collaboration (30%): You’ll partner with stakeholders in our People & Culture and Technology functions, using your knowledge and experience of Workday to help design solutions, gather requirements, and provide support.
• Data & Reporting (30%): Data-driven insights are key, and you’ll help build our people reporting suite by maintaining & building custom reports, dashboards, and leveraging the people analytics module

What You’ll Love About This Role

• Think Big: You’ll thrive in this role by driving innovation and shaping strategic solutions that impact the entire organisation and make everybody’s day brighter.
• Own It: You’ll take full ownership of system configurations and data integrity, becoming a trusted expert and go-to problem solver.
• Keep it Simple: You’ll streamline complex processes and translate technical details into user-friendly solutions that save time and improve user experience.
• Better Together: You’ll collaborate across teams, combining ideas and strengths to deliver impactful, people-focused technology solutions.

What Success Looks Like

In your first few months, you’ll have:

• Familiarised yourself with Workday configuration across HCM modules
• Built strong relationships by demonstrating expertise, clear communication, and reliable delivery
• Identified optimisation opportunities and any quick wins
• Learnt about current priorities and challenges for key stakeholders

What You’ll Need

• Workday configuration expertise: Demonstrable hands-on experience configuring multiple Workday HCM modules
• Analytical & Reporting skills: Ability to analyse and interpret data and translate business requirements into technical.
• Attention to detail & data integrity: Commitment to ensuring we have clean & accurate data, that is standardised across reports and well understood by the business. As well as being amazing in the detail, you’ll need the ability to be able to zoom out to understand how the detail contributes to broader outcomes.
• Stakeholder communication: Clear communication with stakeholders to understand needs, explain technical concepts, and deliver updates.