# Senior Workday Analyst

**Company**: Freshfields
**Location**: Manchester
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Human Resources
**Industry**: Legal

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Workday Analyst to join our Global HR Technology and Services team. As a Senior Workday Analyst, you will be responsible for developing, supporting, and maintaining the core Workday HR system while delivering excellent customer service to colleagues worldwide.

**Key Responsibilities and Deliverables**

- Serve as a Subject Matter Expert in Workday Talent and Performance module, driving continuous improvement of functionality and business processes in line with the business strategy and Workday best practice.

- Lead the implementation of configuration changes, coordinating the end-to-end process including requirement capture, design, testing, training, and documentation.

- Collaborate with the business for all Workday release items and Continuous Improvement to understand requirements, solution design, and support the communications and training of changes.

- Contribute to Strategic Workday roadmap planning, recommend feature adoption, and roadmap priorities in partnership with the business.

- Maintain system integrity, security, and configuration standards, and contribute to the Workday governance processes.

- Lead Workday projects managing module enhancements from design through to deployment, ensuring projects are delivered on time and to agreed standards.

- Collaborate with internal teams and implementation partners.

- Support change management and user adoption activities.

- Maintain audit-ready documentation, compliance with organisational policies, and relevant legislation.

- Mentor junior analysts and admins, and act as an escalation point for complex issues.

**Key Requirements** **Essential**

- Deep expertise in Talent and Performance Module.

- Strong understanding of Workday business processes.

- Experience gathering and documenting business requirements.

- Proven stakeholder management skills.

- Experience supporting Workday releases and testing cycles.

**Desirable**

- Experience across multiple Workday modules.

- Workday Pro certifications.

- Experience in global organisations.

- Experience in the legal sector.

- Experience managing third-party Workday partners.

## Skills

### Required
- Workday
- Talent and Performance Module
- HR processes
- Stakeholder management

### Nice to have
- Workday Pro certifications
- Experience across multiple Workday modules
- Global organisations
- Legal sector
- Third-party Workday partners

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