HR Workday Analyst - 12 month FTC

Ideas | People | Trust

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world.

We work with the companies that are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them.

Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice.  That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships.

You’ll be someone who is both comfortable working pro-actively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners to help businesses effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.

The HR Workday Product Specialist will be a member of the HR Workday Product Team and responsible for the day to day management and support of the HCM product suite of Workday. Reporting in to the Senior HR Workday Manager, you will work on technical support, product development and cross functional projects. In this busy and rewarding role you’ll also:

• Provide guidance to the support team on more complex queries
• Work on all sizes of configuration items, dependent on your skill set and cross skilling
• Collaborate cross functionally with the Workday Finance, Reporting and Integration teams.
• Manage system configuration, business process and security changes whilst ensuring compliance with our internal audits
• Deliver projects of varying complexity
• Work as a team to deliver value to the business
• Work on and support the bi-annual product releases

You’ll be someone with:

• Demonstrable experience of Workday HCM
• Knowledge across a number of Workday HR Modules
• In depth knowledge of Business process configuration and other HCM functionality
• The ability to tell the difference between roles, domains, groups and security policies
• Strong communication skills to be able to collaborate with the wider team and business stakeholders
• Experience of using ServiceNow or a similar ticketing solution
• Experience of writing reports and running EIBs

At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

We’re in it together

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture.  From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another.  At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices.  BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences.  With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO.

We’re looking forward to the future

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy.

Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions

We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.

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