Workday Functional Analyst

Job Description

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Workday Functional Analyst to join our HR Systems team and contribute to the ongoing optimization and evolution of our Workday platform. This role combines strategic advisory and hands-on configuration.

The successful candidate will serve as a trusted Workday functional partner, taking ownership of key functional areas and helping shape solutions that support evolving business needs. They will lead functional enhancements, provide guidance to stakeholders and colleagues, and contribute to continuous improvement, releases, and key initiatives.

Your role

- Contribute to the Workday roadmap and continuous improvement backlog based on business priorities, support trends, and platform opportunities.
- Lead functional discussions with key HR and IT stakeholders, helping translate business needs into practical Workday solutions.
- Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships, acting as a trusted functional partner across HR, IT, and other teams.
- Configure, test, document, and deploy Workday functionality, including business processes, eligibility rules, time-off, security, HCM, talent, recruiting, compensation, learning, and absence modules.
- Provide guidance and share best practice recommendations across Workday functional areas to strengthen internal capabilities.
- Partner with HR, Finance, IT, vendors and business stakeholders to challenge and define requirements, assess options, and drive decisions.
- Translate business needs into practical, scalable Workday solutions that support user experience, operational requirements, data integrity, and security.
- Assess current Workday configuration, processes, and adoption to identify improvement opportunities.
- Assess Workday releases and new features, recommend relevant improvements, and support adoption and implementation planning.
- Provide support to the IT HR Systems Operational team for troubleshooting complex functional and security issues and identify root causes.
- Investigate complex functional and security issues, identify root causes, and coordinate resolution through to closure.
- Manage priorities autonomously, communicate risks and dependencies early, and take accountability for commitments and outcomes.
- Demonstrates leadership through ownership, sound judgment, constructive challenge
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to adapt verbiage based on the audience.
- Trusted advisor with strong Workday expertise.
- Equally comfortable providing strategic recommendations and performing hands-on configuration.
- Highly autonomous, proactive, and results oriented.
- Collaborative and service-oriented, sharing knowledge, supports colleagues, and contributes to a positive and accountable team culture.

About you

- 5+ years of Workday functional experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with Workday Absence and Time Off configuration and support.
- Strong knowledge of Workday Security, including role-based and user-based security groups, domain security, business process security, and security administration.
- Strong understanding of Workday business process configuration, reporting dependencies, testing, and production support.
- Experience leading Workday assessments, optimization initiatives, and continuous improvement programs.
- Ability to operate autonomously while influencing teams and leadership.
- Experience working in a complex or global organization and managing competing stakeholder needs is considered an asset.
- Workday certifications are considered an asset.

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Reward & benefits

This includes:

- Comprehensive life insurance coverage.
- Premium medical insurance for you and your dependents.
- Generous annual leave balance.
- Flexible and hybrid work solutions.
- Remote work opportunities outside of country.
- Company gratuity scheme.
- Discretionary bonus program.
- Relocation assistance.
- Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.
- Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognized for the impact you make.

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About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis , a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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### Worker Type
Employee

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Regular

At AtkinsRéalis , we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.