Business Analyst - Workday Consultant

Overview

Business Analyst - Workday Consultant role supporting Workday Core HCM configuration, enhancements, testing, and ongoing HR operations, working closely with HR, Payroll, and IT teams.

What you'll do

• Configure and maintain Workday Core HCM modules, including Staffing (Hire, Change Job, Termination), Organizations (Supervisory, Company, Cost Center, Location), Job Profiles, Job Families, Positions, and worker data and organizational assignments.
• Configure and enhance Workday Business Processes (Hire, Change Job, Transfer, Promotion, Termination, Onboarding, Offboarding), including approvals, notifications, validations, condition rules, and routing logic.
• Configure and maintain staffing models (Position Management and Job Management), effective dating and worker lifecycle transactions, and organizational structures and hierarchies.
• Develop, modify, and support standard reports, custom advanced reports, matrix reports, calculated fields, and filters, prompts, and report optimization.
• Configure and support Workday Security, including domain security policies, business process security policies, security groups, role-based access control, user provisioning, and access troubleshooting.
• Support data migration and mass updates using Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) and inbound and outbound integrations for data loading.
• Perform unit testing, System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), regression testing, and defect analysis and resolution.
• Provide production support within an AMS/support model by resolving incident tickets, performing root cause analysis, implementing configuration fixes, and meeting SLA requirements.
• Partner with HR, Payroll, Benefits, Talent, and IT teams to understand business requirements and deliver scalable Workday solutions.
• Prepare and maintain Functional Design Documents (FDD), configuration workbooks, test scripts, release documentation, and knowledge transfer documents.
• Support Workday releases by evaluating new features, performing impact analysis, regression testing, and recommending adoption where appropriate.

What you'll need

• 3–4 years of Workday Core HCM implementation and/or production support experience.
• Strong understanding of the Workday HCM data model, effective dating, worker lifecycle, Staffing Models (Position Management and Job Management), and organizations and supervisory structures.
• Hands-on experience with Business Process Framework, condition rules, validations, notifications, custom and delivered reports, calculated fields, EIB data loads, and security configuration.
• Experience supporting the complete Hire-to-Retire lifecycle.
• Good understanding of HR business processes, including recruitment, hiring, employee data management, promotions, transfers, terminations, and organizational changes.
• Experience in production support, incident management, and AMS support environments.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to have

• Workday HCM Certification.
• Experience working on at least one full-cycle Workday implementation.
• Experience with Workday Release Management.
• Exposure to Workday integrations (Core Connectors, Studio, PICOF, or Workday Web Services).
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum delivery methodologies.
• Experience working with global HR processes and multinational organizations.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.