Workday Functional Consultant

Responsibilities

• Key Responsibilities
• Functional Leadership
• Act as the functional solution lead for relevant Workday components within the H2R process
• Provide expert guidance on Workday best practices, design principles, and configuration standards.
• Translate business and HR requirements into scalable Workday solutions.
• Challenge and improve existing processes to maximise value from the Workday platform (utilising Success Plans & Functional Review outputs).
• Solution Design
• Design end-to-end Workday solutions across key functional areas including: Core HCM, Absence, Recruitment, Talent, Benefits & Comp Organisations and Supervisory Structures Business Processes
• Core HCM, Absence, Recruitment, Talent, Benefits & Comp
• Organisations and Supervisory Structures
• Business Processes
• Develop functional designs, solution documentation, process flows, and architectural artefacts.
• Ensure solutions meet governance, compliance, risk, and security requirements.
• Delivery & Change
• Support ongoing optimisation programme, enhancements, and transformation initiatives.
• Lead workshops with business stakeholders and HR SMEs.
• Provide functional leadership within H2R workstreams, working with the Workstream Lead and Project Manager to support delivery.
• Work with Process Experts and Business Analysts to translate agreed future-state processes and requirements into scalable Workday solution designs.
• Provide functional assurance and issue resolution support across testing, UAT, defect triage, and deployment activities.
• Support adoption readiness by ensuring functional designs, configuration decisions, and impacts are clearly documented and communicated.
• Support optimisation activity around Workday bi-annual updates.
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Build strong relationships with JM and Workday technology teams
• Present solution recommendations, risks, and impacts to governance forums.