Workday Consultant - Talent And Performance

Blue Yonder; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Yonder in Hyderabad is seeking an experienced Workday Consultant to manage day-to-day HCM operations with a focus on security, succession, talent and performance, and reporting. You will troubleshoot production issues and implement secure, scalable enhancements while configuring security groups and access policies.

Collaborate with HR, product, platform, and engineering teams to deliver compliant Workday solutions and support data validation, delivery lifecycle activities, and audit

Qualifications

• 6–8 years of experience in Workday as a consultant or developer.
• Experience managing Workday enhancement programs or initiatives as an individual contributor.
• Strong Workday Security experience including security groups, domain security, and access control.
• Strong Workday Succession Planning, Talent & Performance, and reporting experience.
• Ability to troubleshoot production issues and deliver enhancements with minimal supervision.
• Strong stakeholder management, analytical, documentation, and communication skills.
• Knowledge of additional Workday areas such as Recruiting or Time and Absence preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day Workday HCM operations with emphasis on Security, Succession Planning, Talent & Performance, and Reporting.
• Analyze and troubleshoot production issues involving security access, business processes, talent processes, and reporting; perform root-cause analysis.
• Configure and maintain Workday Security, including security groups and access controls, following least-privilege principles.
• Configure and support Succession Planning, including pools, plans, talent cards, and related security and reporting.
• Configure and support Talent & Performance processes, including goals, reviews, calibration, feedback, and development planning.
• Develop and maintain Workday reports and dashboards, including advanced reports, matrix reports, and RaaS.
• Ensure secure access to sensitive data; support access reviews and audit requests.
• Partner with product, platform, HR, and business teams throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Support data validation, report reconciliation, and integration troubleshooting as needed.
• Align with Blue Yonder core values: Empathy, Results, Relentless, and Teamwork.

Skills

Workday Security

Succession Planning

Talent & Performance

Reporting

Incident management

Root-cause analysis

Least privilege

Stakeholder management

Documentation

Tools

BIRT

Job description

Job Description:

Scope

• Core responsibilities include managing day-to-day support tickets and delivering enhancement requests, with a primary focus on Workday Security, Succession Planning, Talent & Performance, and Reporting.
• As part of the ASIS team, this position will help advance the Workday HCM solution by troubleshooting production issues, applying best practices, and delivering secure, compliant, and scalable enhancements across Workday functional domains.
• The role includes configuring new security groups and security policies, supporting succession and talent processes, and developing reports and calculated fields to meet business and operational needs.
• We are looking mainly for an individual contributor who can deal the end-to-end enhancements and implementations.
• Who can quickly understand the process and kick start the work and deal with production issues.

What You’ll Do

• Own day-to-day Workday HCM operations, with emphasis on Security, Succession Planning, Talent & Performance, and Reporting, including incidents, service requests, and minor-to-major enhancements. Along with Absence and Time Tracking experience will be an added advantage.
• Analyse and troubleshoot production issues involving security access, business process steps, talent processes, succession events, performance reviews, goals, and reporting; perform root-cause analysis and implement corrective actions.
• Configure and maintain Workday Security, including security groups, domain security policies, business process security policies, role assignments, user-based security, and role-based access controls, following least-privilege principles.
• Configure and support Succession Planning, including succession pools, succession plans, talent cards, candidate readiness, critical positions, and related security and reporting.
• Configure and support Talent & Performance processes, including goals, performance reviews, calibration, feedback, talent reviews, competencies, and development plans.
• Develop and maintain Workday reports and data outputs, including custom reports, advanced reports, matrix reports, composite reports, dashboards, discovery boards, calculated fields, and Report-as-a-Service (RaaS).
• Ensure secure access to sensitive talent, succession, and performance data; support periodic access reviews, segregation-of-duties assessments, and audit requests.
• Partner with product, platform, engineering, HR, and business teams throughout the delivery lifecycle, including requirements gathering, solution design, configuration, testing, deployment, documentation, and hyper-care.
• Support data validation, report reconciliation, downstream consumption, and integration troubleshooting as needed.
• Align with Blue Yonder core values: Empathy, Results, Relentless, and Teamwork.

What We Are Looking For

• 6–8 years of experience in Workday as a consultant or a developer but not as a tester.
• Proven experience managing Workday enhancement programs or Workday-related initiatives being an individual contributor.
• Strong Workday Security experience, including security groups, domain security, business process security policies, user-based security, role assignments, and role-based access control.
• Strong experience with Workday Succession Planning, including succession pools and plans, candidate readiness, critical roles, talent cards, and succession-related reporting.
• Strong Workday Talent & Performance experience, including goal management, performance reviews, calibration, feedback, competencies, talent reviews, and development planning.
• Proven Workday reporting skills, including custom and advanced reports, matrix and composite reports, calculated fields, dashboards, discovery boards, and RaaS. BIRT experience is a plus.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot production issues, manage day-to-day support tickets, and deliver enhancements with minimal supervision.
• Working knowledge of at least one additional Workday functional area, such as Recruiting, Learning, Benefits, or Time and Absence, is preferred.
• Strong stakeholder management, analytical, documentation, and communication skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into secure and scalable Workday solutions.

Our Values

If you want to know the heart of a company, take a look at their values. Ours unite us. They are what drive our success – and the success of our customers. Does your heart beat like ours? Find out here: Core Values

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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