Senior Analyst, Workday VNDLY

About the role

At LSEG, we are committed to creating inclusive, intuitive, and reliable People Engineering experiences for colleagues worldwide. We’re looking for a problem-solver who flourishes with improving systems through innovative, out-of-the-box solutions to deliver a best-in-class, seamless user experience. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in designing and implementing engineering solutions focused on automation, efficiency, and resiliency. You’ll collaborate with senior management, partners, and analysts to drive end-to-end solution delivery. The Senior Analyst, Workday VNDLY will lead the technical design and configuration of Workday VNDLY solutions, specialising in external workforce management lifecycle. Responsibilities include handling functionality implementations, upgrades, feature rollouts, and sophisticated fixes, monitoring system performance, leading testing workstreams, ensuring data integrity, security, and compliance, maintaining documentation, mentoring junior engineers, and acting as liaison between technical teams and business customers. You will partner with People Functions teams to gather and analyse requirements, assess existing architecture, collaborate with internal teams and external vendors, design sustainable configurations, review service updates, and independently manage the full project lifecycle. The role requires experience in computer science or related field, hands‑on experience with Workday VNDLY or SAP Fieldglass, solid understanding of Workday business processes, integrations, reporting, releases, and change processes, and ability to handle projects through all stages. Desirable skills include Workday certifications, Workday Extend, Agile methodologies, and tools like Asana or ServiceNow. Soft skills: proactive, diligent, highly organised, strong analytical and problem‑solving, good communication, partnership‑driven, and comfortable in a fast‑paced global environment. Benefits include competitive salary and benefits package, opportunity to work with modern HR technology, collaborative and inclusive work culture, and career growth and professional development support.

What you’ll do

• Lead the technical design and configuration of Workday VNDLY Solutions – specialising in external workforce management lifecycle.
• Handle Workday functionality implementations, upgrades, and feature rollouts.
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into scalable Workday solutions.
• Handle sophisticated fix and support for Workday issues with focus on identifying the opportunities to reduce the overall support cases.
• Monitor system performance and proactively identify areas for improvement.
• Lead the Testing workstream and collaborate with customers to complete end to end testing.
• Ensure data integrity, security, and compliance with internal policies and external regulations.
• Maintain documentation for system configurations, integrations, and processes.
• Mentor more junior Workday engineers.
• Act as a liaison between technical teams and business customers.
• Partner with People Functions teams to gather and analyse requirements for external workforce management solutions via Workday VNDLY.
• Assess existing architecture, workflows, data and provide authoritative recommendations to ensure robust, scalable, solutions.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external vendors to define scope, requirements, timelines, and outcomes for external workforce management initiatives.
• Design and implement sustainable, efficient, and easy-to-follow configurations in Workday VNDLY, focusing on process simplification and automation.
• Review Workday service updates and bi-annual releases to identify new enhancements, discovery items, and assess adoption strategies for continuous improvement.
• Independently handle all phases of the project lifecycle for external workforce lifecycle management solution implementations, ensuring timely and successful delivery.
• Support training, testing, and user adoption activities to enable smooth rollout and long-term sustainability of solutions.
• Provide audit support by ensuring security configurations, processes, and documentation meet compliance standards and are readily available for internal and external audits.

What you’ll bring

• Experience in computer science, Information Systems, or related field.
• Hands-on experience with Workday VNDLY or SAP Fieldglass.
• Solid understanding of Workday business processes.
• Understanding of Workday integrations and reporting.
• Experience with Workday releases and change processes.
• Ability to handle own projects through all stages

Nice to have

• Workday certifications in one or more modules.
• Experience with Workday Extend.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and tools like Asana or ServiceNow.

Skills

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunity to work with modern HR technology.
• Collaborative and inclusive work culture.
• Career growth and professional development support