Lead Consultant

Role: Lead consultant – Workday

Responsibilities:

• Act as a Workday HCM expert with deep knowledge of design, configuration, testing, and implementation.
• Become an authority on the people management processes Workday supports at Customer – e.g., Joiners/Movers/Leavers, Absence, Compensation, Benefits.
• Utilise your hands-on expertise of Workday to deliver your enhancements, including configuration, reporting, business processes, security, loading customer data, and moving configuration from tenant to tenant.
• Rigorously follow the Customer Change Management Process in JIRA; clearly articulating the requirements, business benefits, design, functional/technical change, impact, and test approach for your Workday enhancements.
• Collaborate closely with the product managers and product owners to analyse, develop, test and implement changes in line with business priorities.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement.
• Evaluate technical & functional designs against business requirements; ensuring impact to supported systems is understood and managed effectively.

Skills and experience:

• 6 to 8 years Workday HCM implementation experience is essential for this role; Workday integration experience would also be beneficial.
• Workday certifications desirable.
• Strong knowledge of HR business processes & systems is essential for this role.
• Experienced working on large projects; evaluating complex design documentation against business requirements and ensuring solutions delivered are fit for purpose.
• Experienced creating detailed technical implementation plans and migrating changes into production.
• Working knowledge of PowerPoint and Visio.
• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills to interpret customer issues & requirements and translate into working solutions.
• Ability to understand business requirements, evaluate technical/functional design documentation and accurately assess any impact on existing systems and processes.
• Strong communication and presentation skills (written and verbal) – proven capability to communicate clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences at different levels as appropriate.
• Highly organised, detail-oriented, possessing the ability to effectively prioritise support, projects and deliverables whilst meeting deadlines set by management.