Senior Functional Consultant - HCM and Security - Workday Advisory Services

Workday; Mumbai; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday is seeking a Senior Functional Consultant - HCM and Security to help customers maximize value from Workday products. You will deliver targeted micro consulting engagements, provide configuration guidance, and demonstrate Workday features to accelerate adoption.

With 10+ years in HCM software and large enterprise HRIS implementations, you will collaborate with partners and customers, travel up to 10%, and stay current with Workday certifications and roadmap.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Human Capital Management software and consulting experience on medium or large enterprise HRIS projects.
• Experience with HCM and security in Workday.
• Bachelor’s degree or related experience required.

Responsibilities

• Deliver small scope consulting with configuration guidance and demonstrations.
• Troubleshoot Workday configurations to meet customer business requirements.
• Communicate responses and value to customers clearly during engagements.
• Review customer tenants to identify adoption opportunities and provide optimization.
• Maintain product expertise and Workday Certification(s) with knowledge of roadmap.

Skills

HCM expertise

HRIS implementation

Workday consulting

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Workday

HRIS

Job description

Your work days are brighter here.

We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

About The Team

The Workday Success Plans Delivery Team at Workday plays a crucial role in ensuring customers maximize the value they get from their Workday products. We focus on our customers’ post go-live journey, assuring long-term success. We deliver a variety of programs and services ranging from feature assessments to full feature deployments to support their growing and changing business needs within Workday.

At Workday, we help the world’s largest organizations adapt to what’s next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud. We work hard, and we’re serious about what we do. But we like to have fun, too! We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and prioritize giving back to our communities, demonstrating a commitment to corporate social responsibility. Our dedication to customer success, coupled with a vibrant and inclusive company culture, sets a strong foundation for continued growth and success at Workday.

About The Role

Would you enjoy learning new things in a fast paced environment? Do you have an appetite for variety and challenging business problems to solve? Are you a great communicator who can clearly articulate and demonstrate the value of Workday solutions to our customers? The Workday Success Plans team works directly with customers through targeted micro consulting engagements to help solve their business needs using the Workday application. Responsible for acting as a trusted Workday advisor, you will have the opportunity to assist customers with how-to questions, troubleshoot and guide customers through configuration, and provide feature demonstrations. As a Workday expert, customers will benefit from your knowledge as you share your experience, identify key considerations, and highlight standard methodologies.

Our team of professionals have a broad and deep understanding of Workday, and enjoy the reward of helping customers solve problems, learn about new features, and find greater value in their Workday investment. So if you are passionate about the value technology can bring to an organization, love learning and want to work directly with some of the greatest companies on the planet, bring your energy and teamwork to the Workday Success Plans team!

Primary responsibilities of this role include delivering various services to Workday Success Plans customers. To be successful, this requires:

• Conducting research to ensure understanding of customer questions and related Workday concepts.
• Delivering small scope consulting in response to customer requests; providing configuration guidance, demonstrations, considerations, tips & tricks.
• Troubleshooting product configuration to resolve or provide optimal product configuration to meet customer business requirements.
• Clearly and effectively communicating responses and value to customers.
• Creating and delivering customer presentations on how to use Workday features to achieve business goals (Accelerator Webinars).
• Providing one-on-one consulting guidance to accelerate customer feature adoption (Feature Accelerator).
• Reviewing customer tenants to identify adoption opportunities (Feature Adoption Tenant Reviews).
• Completing and maintaining product expertise and Workday Certification(s) along with familiarity with Workday roadmap.
• Keeping up to date with industry practices and the ability to engage with our customers on those topics.
• Helping drive the creation of new programs to drive customer feature adoption.

In addition to delivering Workday Success Plans services, our Workday professionals will also deliver other Customer Enablement services, such as:

• Office Hours to conduct appointment-based consulting engagements providing guidance and product expertise to customers
• Perform configuration and business requirements reviews with a detailed deliverable calling out opportunities for optimization
• Provide one‑on‑one customer configuration designs
• Deployments including full deployment of Workday features
• Ability to travel up to 10%

About You

Basic Qualifications - Senior Functional Consultant - HCM and Security

• 10+ years of Human Capital Management software and consulting experience on medium or large enterprise HRIS projects, or applicable practitioner deployment experience
• 10+ years of experience with the following product areas: HCM and Security
• 8+ years of Workday Consulting experience or experience as a Workday SME

Other Qualifications

• Demonstrates a solid grasp of HR related systems and processes. Able to gain a detailed understanding of Workday concepts and new feature releases in Core HCM, areas of expertise and cross application features.
• Certified or ability to certify in Workday HCM Products and to effectively deploy the solutions
• Experience with influencing, interacting and collaborating with senior leaders, internally and externally
• Capable of leading and influencing design meetings toward an effective and collaborative outcome
• Ability to deliver and get results while managing to a project plan
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with global implementations is preferred.
• The ability to work on multiple engagements simultaneously.
• Strong critical thinking skills so as to understand complex, technical process issues and facilitate/influence decision making
• Bachelor’s degree or related experience required
• Ability to travel up to 10%

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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