Senior Workday HCM Analyst
Posted 1 day ago by Totaljobs
£650 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Swindon (SN1)
Summary: This role is for a Senior Workday HCM Analyst, focusing on Workday HCM, Recruiting, and Reporting within a public sector environment. The position requires hands-on experience and involves delivering enhancements, managing BAU tickets, and supporting Workday releases. The role is hybrid, based in Swindon, with a contract extending until March 2027. The candidate will play a critical part in optimizing the Workday platform and ensuring compliance with governance standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Delivering enhancements across Workday HCM: configuration, reporting, and business process optimisation
- Owning and supporting Workday Recruiting (requisitions, candidate workflows, offer management)
- Building and maintaining reports, dashboards, and analytics to provide insights to HR and Talent
- Leading workshops, gathering requirements, and translating them into robust technical designs
- Managing and prioritising BAU tickets, enhancements, and system changes
- Supporting Workday releases, impact assessments, and feature enablement
- Ensuring alignment with governance, security, and compliance standards (including GDPR)
- Guiding and mentoring HR and IT stakeholders, and promoting best practices across the platform
Key Skills:
- 5+ years' Workday experience with strong expertise in Workday HCM
- Proven, hands-on experience with Workday Recruiting and reporting
- Solid understanding of configuration, security, and/or integrations
- Evidence of business process optimisation and BAU support in a governed environment
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum, with strong stakeholder engagement skills
- Workday HCM Certification is essential; Workday Recruiting certification is a strong plus
- Nice to have: Workday Prism Analytics, additional modules such as Compensation, Absence, Payroll or Finance, experience with Workday integrations, public sector experience, consulting background
Salary (Rate): £650 daily
City: Swindon
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Other
This is a hands-on, senior role focused on Workday HCM, Recruiting and Reporting, working in a complex, high-visibility environment where the system is genuinely business-critical.
Key details at a glance
- Role: Senior Workday HCM Analyst
- Location: Swindon - hybrid, with ad hoc on-site meetings and a UK-wide team
- Contract: pending to 31 March 2027
- Day rate: Approx. 600-650 (umbrella, inside IR35)
- Clearance: BPS
- Environment: Public sector / highly governed, BAU and transformation
What you would be doing
- Delivering enhancements across Workday HCM: configuration, reporting and business process optimisation
- Owning and supporting Workday Recruiting (requisitions, candidate workflows, offer management)
- Building and maintaining reports, dashboards and analytics to give HR and Talent real insight
- Leading workshops, gathering requirements and translating them into robust technical designs
- Managing and prioritising BAU tickets, enhancements and system changes
- Supporting Workday releases, impact assessments and feature enablement
- Ensuring alignment with governance, security and compliance standards (including GDPR)
- Guiding and mentoring HR and IT stakeholders, and promoting best practice across the platform
What they are looking for
- 5+ years' Workday experience with strong expertise in Workday HCM
- Proven, hands-on experience with Workday Recruiting and reporting
- Solid understanding of configuration, security and/or integrations
- Evidence of business process optimisation and BAU support in a governed environment
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum, with strong stakeholder engagement skills
- Workday HCM Certification is essential; Workday Recruiting certification is a strong plus
- Nice to have
- Workday Prism Analytics
- Additional modules such as Compensation, Absence, Payroll or Finance
- Experience with Workday integrations (job boards, background checks, etc.)
- Public sector / highly regulated environment experience
- Consulting background
Why this could interest you
- Opportunity to shape and improve a critical Workday platform in a respected public sector organisation
- Blend of BAU stability with ongoing transformation and system evolution
- Flexible hybrid model with a UK-wide team
- High level of ownership and influence over how Workday is leveraged across HR and Recruitment