Workday Functional Consultant

About the role

BSI is hiring a Workday Functional Consultant to join its global Workday platform team in India on a full-time, permanent basis. The role is purely technical and operational, focused on Workday configuration, technical troubleshooting, incident resolution, and controlled change management across the global platform. Day-to-day work includes owning and configuring key Workday modules, investigating and resolving system issues, delivering change requests from requirements through testing and deployment, and leading bi-annual release assessment and testing. The consultant will partner with HR, Payroll, IT, and business stakeholders to maintain system stability, compliance, data integrity, and continuous optimisation using SDLC, ITIL, and Agile disciplines.

What you’ll do

• Provide expert support and administration across the Workday platform, ensuring a stable, efficient, and high-performing HR system.
• Own and configure key Workday modules, driving enhancements while maintaining compliance with governance and global design standards.
• Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve system issues, using root cause analysis to deliver long-term solutions and continuous improvement.
• Deliver Workday change requests and enhancements from requirements gathering through to testing, deployment, and post-launch support.
• Lead the assessment and testing of Workday bi-annual releases, ensuring minimal business disruption and seamless adoption of new functionality.
• Monitor system performance, data quality, security, and reporting accuracy, implementing improvements to strengthen platform integrity.
• Identify and implement automation and process optimisation opportunities to improve user experience, efficiency, and operational effectiveness.
• Partner with HR, Payroll, IT, and business stakeholders to provide technical expertise, drive best practice, and maximise the value of Workday across the organisation.

What you’ll bring

• Previous experience within a Workday Functional role with demonstratable hands-on experience.
• Experience with one or more of these Workday modules: Recruiting, Learning, Compensation.
• Strong hands-on experience configuring Workday Business Processes.
• Proficient in building and maintaining Calculated Fields, EIBs (Inbound & Outbound), custom reports, and condition rules.
• In-depth understanding of Workday data structures, business objects, and reporting frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience using ServiceNow and Azure DevOps.
• Working knowledge of downstream integration behaviours, data flows, and impacts of configuration on connected systems.
• Proven ability to interpret Workday release notes, identify technical impacts, and assess system or process consequences.

Nice to have

• Experience of Workday Security or Integrations is desirable.
• Experience delivering configuration changes under structured governance.

Skills

Benefits

• Flexible working
• 20-days annual leave
• Paid sick leave
• Health insurance
• Life insurance