Senior Workday Functional Lead | HRIS Strategy & Design

S&P Global Mobility; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

S&P Global Mobility is seeking a Workday Functional Leader to drive hands-on configuration, testing and optimization across Core HCM, Recruiting, Talent & Performance, and Payroll. You will partner with HR leaders to translate requirements, define scalable solutions, and guide biannual release adoption in a global enterprise.

The role emphasizes stakeholder engagement, data governance, and delivering aligned HR processes with platform capabilities, ensuring consistent design and scalable

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in HRIS, HR technology or enterprise SaaS platforms.
• 4+ years of hands-on Workday functional experience across multiple modules.
• Exposure to Learning, Help, Peakon and/or Payroll modules is highly desirable.
• Experience supporting Workday implementations or major platform transformations in global organisations is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of HR processes including employee lifecycle, talent management and workforce reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into scalable system solutions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the hands-on functional lead for the Workday platform across key modules including Core HCM, Recruiting, Talent & Performance, Compensation, Time & Absence, Reporting, Learning, Help, Peakon and Payroll.
• Perform hands-on configuration, testing and troubleshooting across these modules.
• Provide expert guidance on Workday configuration, functionality and best practices.
• Ensure Workday capabilities align with organisational HR processes and strategic priorities.
• Lead functional design decisions for Workday implementations and enhancements and build the resulting configuration.
• Establish and maintain configuration standards and design principles.
• Partner with HR and business stakeholders to gather and translate requirements into functional solutions within Workday.
• Evaluate business requests and recommend scalable system solutions aligned with platform capabilities and best practices.
• Document functional specifications and lead configuration and testing.
• Support the development and execution of the Workday platform roadmap.
• Identify opportunities to enhance system functionality and improve HR processes.
• Assess new Workday features and recommend adoption based on business value.
• Lead the evaluation and adoption of biannual Workday releases, including hands-on configuration of release-related changes.
• Coordinate and execute testing cycles to ensure changes are successfully deployed.
• Work with stakeholders to assess impact and ensure readiness for new functionality.
• Partner with the People Analytics team and build Workday data structures and reports to support reporting and analytics needs.
• Ensure data integrity and consistency across HR processes and system modules.
• Act as a trusted advisor to HR leaders on Workday capabilities and system improvements.
• Provide guidance on best practices for HR technology usage and process design.
• Support training and adoption initiatives to maximise the value of the platform.

Skills

Deep hands-on Workday knowledge

Analytical problem solving

Translate business needs to system

Stakeholder engagement

Platform release management

Data governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information systems, HR, Business Administration or related field

Tools

Workday

Job description

S&P Global Mobility is seeking a Workday Functional Leader to drive hands-on configuration, testing and optimization across Core HCM, Recruiting, Talent & Performance, and Payroll. You will partner with HR leaders to translate requirements, define scalable solutions, and guide biannual release adoption in a global enterprise.

The role emphasizes stakeholder engagement, data governance, and delivering aligned HR processes with platform capabilities, ensuring consistent design and scalable