Workday Analyst

As our Senior Functional Analyst for our Workday platform you'll be responsible for configuring, maintaining, and optimising Workday across multiple modules. You'll partner with our People Directorate and wider organisation, as required, to translate requirements into scalable, compliant, and user-centre Workday solutions. A key specialist role within our Technology Directorate, you'll be responsible for leading the design, alongside the BHF Architect, Tenant optimisation, and governance of Workday across British Heart Foundation (BHF) and will provide Workday functional expertise across Core HCM and multiple specialist modules, shaping the strategic evolution of Workday to support organisational, People, and technology ambitions. You'll act as a senior Workday expert, guiding and coaching other analysts, advising stakeholders across Technology and People, and ensuring BHF maximises its investment in Workday through scalable, future-ready, user-centred solutions that support BHF's roadmap.

Working arrangements

This is a hybrid role, where your work will be split between your home and at least one day per week, on average, in our London Office, this is normally a Tuesday or Wednesday. This may vary from time to time, so you will need to work in a flexible way to unlock your best work for our cause.

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• With a Workday certification(s), or Workday Pro accreditation, you'll have proven, advanced Workday expertise, with previous hands-on configuration experience across Core HCM and multiple specialist modules, able to design and govern enterprise-grade configurations.
• You will be skilled in Workday reporting, dashboards, calculated fields, EIB uploads, audits, and data cleansing to ensure accuracy and efficiency, and will have previous experience optimising HR workflows, gathering requirements, mapping processes, and supporting Workday's bi-annual release cycle.
• Highly proficient in Workday reporting, dashboards, Prism/analytics, calculated fields, and data governance frameworks, you'll have a strong understanding of Workday security, integrations, EIBs, BP logic, condition rules, and downstream impacts.
• Experience with Workday integrations.
• Familiarity with both project and product (Agile) delivery methodologies.
• Exposure to automation or AI within HR technology.
• Experience working in complex, matrixed organisation.
• Experience leading configuration and product enhancements within a complex, multimodule Workday environment.
• Experience in technology-enabled transformation, automation, or AI within HR technology ecosystems.
• Able to take a collaborative approach to work; proactive about finding better ways of doing things and building your technical know-how.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills and the ability to think critically and constructively challenge and interrogate information.
• Able to work in Agile and hybrid delivery models across product and project environments, with previous exposure to working in a complex, matrixed organisation, ideally with a blend of strategic and operational responsibilities.

We celebrate and value the diversity of the communities we serve, recognising that embracing different perspectives and backgrounds strengthens our organisation and drives innovation. By fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and supported, we are better equipped to achieve our mission of helping people have a healthier heart for longer.

To hear from our people, check out Belonging at BHF. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. By funding research across six decades, we've helped keep millions of hearts beating and millions of families together. We're investing in ground-breaking research that will get us closer than ever to a world where everyone has a healthier heart for longer.

Interview process

First stage interviews will be a short one-way video interview; successful candidates will then be invited to attend an interview via MS Teams, with final stage interview held at our London offices, this final stage will include a presentation element.

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