Workday Business Analyst (Discovery Phase)
Contract
London travel weekly 1x
Overview
We are seeking an experienced Workday Business Analyst to support the Discovery phase of a major Workday transformation programme. The successful candidate will work closely with business stakeholders, programme leadership, HR, Finance and Technology teams to understand current processes, define future-state requirements and establish a clear roadmap for implementation.
This is a business-facing role with a strong focus on requirements gathering, process analysis, stakeholder engagement and programme mobilisation. The role is not configuration-focused and will primarily support the organisation in making key design decisions before entering the build phase.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead discovery workshops across business and functional workstreams.
- Capture and document business, functional and non-functional requirements.
- Analyse current (\"as-is\") processes and identify opportunities for standardisation and optimisation.
- Facilitate future-state (\"to-be\") process design aligned to Workday best practice.
- Produce process maps, user journeys and business requirements documentation.
- Support development of business cases, implementation scope and prioritisation activities.
- Identify gaps between current operating models and future Workday capabilities.
- Define key business processes, reporting requirements, integrations and data considerations.
- Work closely with programme managers, architects and implementation partners.
- Support governance activities including RAID management, decision logs and stakeholder updates.
- Contribute to programme mobilisation and readiness planning.
Required Experience
- Proven experience as a Business Analyst on Workday programmes.
- Strong understanding of Workday HCM and/or Workday Financials.
- Extensive discovery and requirements elicitation experience within large transformation programmes.
- Experience facilitating workshops with senior stakeholders.
- Strong process mapping and business analysis skills.
- Experience producing BRDs, functional requirements, use cases and gap analysis documentation.
- Understanding of organisational change, target operating models and business transformation.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Previous experience supporting global or multi-country Workday implementations.
- Knowledge of HR, Finance or Shared Services operating models.
- Experience working with implementation partners and software vendors.
- Familiarity with Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies.
- Experience using Visio, Miro, Jira and Confluence.
- Discovery Phase Assessment
- Current State Process Maps
- Future State Process Designs
- Requirements Catalogue
- Business & Functional Requirement Documents
- Gap Analysis
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Data & Reporting Requirements
- High-Level Solution Recommendations
- Discovery Phase Findings & Recommendations Report
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