Senior Functional Analyst (Workday)
British Heart Foundation
About the role
Hybrid work includes at least one day per week on average in the London office, usually Tuesday or Wednesday. You’ll lead Workday design, tenant optimisation, governance, and configuration across Core HCM and specialist modules, partnering with People and Technology stakeholders and coaching analysts. Candidates need advanced hands-on Workday experience, certification or Workday Pro accreditation, plus strong skills in reporting, Prism/analytics, security, integrations, EIBs, business process logic, and release support.
As our Senior Functional Analyst for our Workday platform you'll be responsible for configuring, maintaining, and optimising Workday across multiple modules. You'll partner with our People Directorate and wider organisation, as required, to translate requirements into scalable, compliant, and user-centre Workday solutions.
A key specialist role within our Technology Directorate, you'll be responsible for leading the design, alongside the BHF Architect, Tenant optimisation, and governance of Workday across British Heart Foundation (BHF) and will provide Workday functional expertise across Core HCM and multiple specialist modules, shaping the strategic evolution of Workday to support organisational, People, and technology ambitions.
You'll act as a senior Workday expert, guiding and coaching other analysts, advising stakeholders across Technology and People, and ensuring BHF maximises its investment in Workday through scalable, future-ready, user-centred solutions that support BHF’s roadmap.
Working arrangements
This is a hybrid role, where your work will be split between your home and at least one day per week, on average, in our London Office, this is normally a Tuesday or Wednesday. This may vary from time to time, so you will need to work in a flexible way to unlock your best work for our cause.
About you
With a Workday certification(s), or Workday Pro accreditation, you’ll have proven, advanced, Workday expertise, with previous hands-on configuration experience across Core HCM and multiple specialist modules, able to design and govern enterprise grade configurations.
You’ll be skilled in Workday reporting, dashboards, calculated fields, EIB uploads, audits, and data cleansing to ensure accuracy and efficiency, and will have previous experience optimising HR workflows, gathering requirements, mapping processes, and supporting Workday’s biannual release cycle.
Highly proficient in Workday reporting, dashboards, Prism/analytics, calculated fields, and data governance frameworks, you’ll have a strong understanding of Workday security, integrations, EIBs, BP logic, condition rules, and downstream impacts.
You’ll have the following skills and experience:
- Experience with Workday integrations.
- Familiarity with both project and product (Agile) delivery methodologies.
- Exposure to automation or AI within HR technology.
- Experience working in complex, matrixed, organisation.
- Experience leading configuration and product enhancements within a complex, multimodule Workday environment
- Experience in technology enabled transformation, automation, or AI within HR technology ecosystems.
Able to take a collaborative approach to work you’ll be proactive about finding better ways of doing things and building your technical know-how. You’ll have excellent communication and presentation skills and will be able to think critically and constructively challenge and interrogate information.
Able to work in Agile and hybrid delivery models across product and project environments, you’ll have previous exposure to working in a complex, matrixed organisation, ideally with a blend of strategic and operational responsibilities.
Interview process
First stage interviews will be a short one-way video interview; successful candidates will then be invited to attend an interview via MS Teams, with final stage interview held at our London offices, this final stage will include a presentation element.