Senior Workday Consultant - Contract

JobSpace; Wellington; Hybrid; NZD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Social events

Chill-out spaces

Remote working

Flexi-hours

Professional development

Job summary

Datacom in New Zealand seeks a Workday Senior Functional Consultant to bridge business users, stakeholders and implementation teams across Wellington and Auckland. You will lead workshops, elicit requirements, craft Workday configurations, and manage testing and training with clients.

This role requires strong Workday expertise, excellent stakeholder management, and a track record of successful HR project implementations. Hybrid work with in-person collaboration is supported.

Qualifications

• Strong Workday technical knowledge and configuration skills.
• Experience with Workday Absence Management and Time Tracking.
• Proven ability to lead client workshops and requirement gathering.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience in international HR projects is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead Workday workstreams for high-profile clients across projects.
• Gather requirements, design configurations, and support testing.
• Deliver knowledge transfer sessions and user training.
• Provide expert guidance on HR business processes and modules.

Skills

Workday

Workday Absence Management

Workday Time Tracking

Workday Reporting

Business Process Configuration

Stakeholder Management

Client-facing

HR Projects

Job description

Jora New Zealand will close on 9th September 2026. Thank you for being with us, we are cheering you on as you continue your career journey.

Here at Datacom we connect people and technology in order to solve challenges, create opportunities and discover new possibilities for the communities we live in Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people's lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow

About the Role (your why)

As a Workday Senior Functional Consultant, you'll be the conduit between the client's business users, stakeholders and the implementation teams. This is a challenging and rewarding role to grow your existing analysis, design, communication and diplomatic abilities. You'll be comfortable in front of clients at all levels as you'll be leading workshops, eliciting requirements, crafting solutions and articulating Workday concepts. Our offices are based in Wellington and Auckland. We like to bring people together in person when we can, but we are mindful of the benefits of working from home for work/ life balance. We therefore leave it to you and the team you join to figure out what works best!

What you'll do

At the moment, as a Workday - Senior Functional Consultant, you will be across multiple projects with high profile clients. You will lead Workday workstreams for key clients, from requirements gathering, design, configuration and support activities. You will then lead testing activities, knowledge transfer sessions and user training. The successful candidate for this role will be seen as an expert in their field and will have demonstrated experience and success in a similar, client facing role.

Additionally, we're looking for the following

• Strong Workday technical knowledge and configuration skills
• Workday Absence Management
• Workday Time Tracking
• Workday Reporting
• Business Process Configuration
• Knowledge and certification of any other modules
• Previous implementation project experience
• Excellent understanding of HR business projects, ideally with exposure to an international environment
• Outstanding stakeholder management and communication skills

Why join us here at Datacom?

Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand's largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. We have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.

We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few. You'll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect and bring your true self to work. You will have recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment.

• social events
• chill-out spaces
• remote working
• flexi-hours
• professional development courses

We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand's largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.

We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken and continue to take to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported.