Accepting applications until:
24 October 2026
Job Description
Your Role: Senior Workday HCM Analyst
We’re looking for a seasoned Workday HCM expert to join our team, reporting to the Workday HCM Tech Lead. You’ll own complex configuration and reporting end to end.
As a Senior Workday HCM Analyst at Global, you will:
Key Responsibilities
- Business Partnering & Challenge: Partner with P&C to shape requirements into the right solution, matching needs to Workday capability and knowing when to push back.
- Solution Design & Delivery: Design, configure and test complex HCM changes (weighing ROI, user experience and ongoing maintenance) through to deployment and deliver bi-annual releases.
- Reporting & Data Integrity: Own our reporting suite; from reports and dashboards used by P&C and the business to board-level MI, and data quality audits.
- Team Enablement: Coach our HCM Analyst, peer-review configuration, and help shape best practice and our roadmap.
- Documentation & Change Governance: Keep project and change documentation (requirements, design decisions, test evidence and user guides) audit-ready and easy to hand over.
What You’ll Love About This Role
- Think Big: Help shape our Workday HCM roadmap and how the platform supports our people strategy.
- Own It: Be the trusted senior expert who leads complex changes and challenges with confidence.
- Keep it Simple: Turn complex configuration and data into simple, usable insight.
- Better Together: Work alongside the Tech Lead and wider Workday team, and partner with P&C.
What Success Looks Like
In your first few months, you’ll have:
- Got up to speed with our Workday configuration and reporting suite.
- Built strong relationships across P&C
- Independently led a complex configuration or reporting change through to release.
- Started knowledge sharing and contributing to the team roadmap.
What You’ll Need
- Workday Expertise: 5+ years’ hands-on Workday HCM configuration across multiple modules, owning complex changes and release cycles end to end.
- Functional Depth: Hands-on experience in UK Payroll, Absence and Time Tracking; depth in one or more is valued.
- Global Rollouts: Experience deploying Workday to new countries and brands, and/or working in a multi-national or complex Workday tenant (e.g. with many companies and brands)
- Reporting & Data Integrity: Advanced and matrix reports, dashboards and board-level MI, with a meticulous approach to data accuracy
- Senior Stakeholder Communication: Confidence engaging senior stakeholders, challenging requirements constructively and explaining trade-offs clearly.
- Team Leadership: Experience coaching junior colleagues while delivering independently.
Senior Workday Analyst HCM in London employer: Global Media Group
At Global, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that fosters a vibrant and collaborative work culture. As a Digital Business Development Manager, you will benefit from extensive professional growth opportunities, a supportive team environment, and the chance to make a significant impact in the dynamic digital audio market. Our commitment to innovation and employee development ensures that you will thrive in your role while enjoying the unique advantages of working in a fast-paced, creative industry.
