Senior Workday HCM Functional Consultant

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Workday expert who enjoys solving complex challenges, influencing change and making a real difference. You'll play a key role in shaping, optimising and continuously improving our Workday HCM platform, working with stakeholders across People, Payroll, IT and the wider business.

What you'll do:

• Be our Workday expert: Take functional ownership of Workday HCM configuration across multiple modules, providing specialist advice and guidance to stakeholders across the business.

• Drive continuous improvement: Identify opportunities to simplify processes, improve functionality, introduce automation and enhance the colleague experience.

• Deliver system enhancements: Lead the design, configuration, testing and implementation of Workday changes, enhancements and new functionality.

• Solve complex challenges: Investigate and resolve complex Workday issues, identifying root causes and delivering effective, sustainable solutions.

• Optimise our processes: Own and maintain Workday business processes, workflows, calculated fields, validations and security configuration.

• Make the most of Workday releases: Assess new functionality, understand business impacts and identify opportunities to improve how we use the platform.

• Shape our future roadmap: Contribute your expertise to People Systems priorities, projects and longer-term development plans.

• Champion quality and governance: Ensure high standards of system configuration, data integrity, documentation, security and compliance.

• Collaborate and influence: Work closely with People Operations, Payroll, IT, external Workday partners and business stakeholders to deliver solutions that make a difference.

• Share your expertise: Support and guide colleagues, helping to build Workday knowledge and capability across the team.

What you’ll bring:

We're looking for someone who combines deep Workday expertise with a practical, solutions-focused approach and a genuine passion for improving how systems work for people. You’ll have:

• 4+ years experience working with Workday HCM, ideally across multiple functional areas or modules.

• Good understanding of HCM core, Core Comp, Learning, Recruiting, Absence, Time Tracking & Scheduling modules

• Strong expertise in Workday configuration, including business processes, calculated fields, validations, workflows and security.

• Proven experience independently delivering complex Workday enhancements, configuration changes and system improvements.

• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with experience resolving complex system issues.

• Experience managing Workday releases, functional testing, regression testing and user acceptance testing, including negative testing.

• A good understanding of Workday reporting, data and the impact of configuration changes on wider business processes.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to advise, influence and challenge constructively.

• The ability to balance day-to-day operational priorities with projects and longer-term improvements.

• A proactive, collaborative approach and the confidence to take ownership and deliver results.

It would also be great if you have:

• Workday certification in a relevant functional area.

• Experience across modules such as Core HCM, Compensation, Recruiting, Learning, Time Tracking, Absence or Scheduling.

• Knowledge of Workday integrations, advanced reporting or security configuration.

• Experience supporting Workday implementations, transformation programmes or major system enhancements.

• Experience working in a large, complex organisation with 5,000+ colleagues.

• Experience coaching or mentoring others.