Workday HCM Product Analyst

Salary: National ranging from £51,200 - £70,000 and London from £56,400 - £75,200 depending on experience

Interested in joining a team supporting and developing Workday in the FCA?

The team/department 

As a successful Workday Functional Specialist, you will be working within the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Product Group DevOps team within our Data Technology and Innovation division. Collaborating with the (ERP) Product Group and key business owners and SMEs as well as our AMS partner, you will be responsible for the delivery of improvements to existing Workday systems and business as usual operations. Additionally, the identification of new opportunities for leveraging the functionality available within Workday Cloud service offerings. 

What you will be doing (the role) 

• Work as a functional specialist providing Development and business as usual Workday support for Human Capital Management (HCM), including Performance Management, Core Compensation, Benefits, Talent, Advanced Compensation and Time Tracking

• Manage the day to day delivery of administration, maintenance, releases and support activities for Workday including liaising/managing AMS partner delivery and test, validate and implement Business Process changes

• Design and maintain system configuration, including Organisations structures, Custom Organisations and Playgroups, Security

• Produce detailed functional and non-functional requirements that are aligned to best practice standards, and meet agreed acceptance criteria

• Review and quality assure artefacts (configuration changes) created by internal teams ensuring the quality of the delivered solution to fulfil business and non-functional requirements and adhere to technical designs

• Develop credibility and relationships with key stakeholders within the business to enable the delivery of new opportunities identified through deep product knowledge

What you will get from the role 

The role offers a great opportunity working within the Enterprise Resource Planning DevOps team. The team includes various roles including a product owner, service manager and architecture. Our Workday Product Analyst will have a varied and broad role, ranging from identifying requirements which will be delivered through Agile methodology, to supporting HR business customers with BAU operational requirements. It presents an opportunity to become an expert in the FCA’s ERP solution, Workday, whilst maintaining and continuously building on your capability as an analyst.
 

Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifecycle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option top up your base salary by taking this as cash. 

Core benefits that you will receive as standard are: 

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays

• Private healthcare with Bupa 

• A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age – up to 12% a month once you reach age 35) 

• Life assurance of eight times your basic salary 

• Income protection 

We support hybrid working which means you will be able to work from home up to 60% of the time over a month with the remainder of your time in one of our three office locations. 

The skills and experience you will have 

Minimum  

We are a signatory to the Government’s Disability Confident scheme. This means that we will offer an interview to disabled candidates entering under the scheme, should they meet the minimum criteria for a role.

• Recent hands on experience with Workday HCM, with experience across all phases of the project lifecycle gaining a good insight and understanding of the complexities involved

• Experience working as a functional specialist with hands-on configuration working with the functional set-ups across HCM

• Experience working with HR business processes

Essential 

• Experience producing project deliverables (business requirements, functional specs, configuration documents, process flows, use cases, requirements traceability matrices, etc) 

• Experience of working with an AMS partner, to gather requirements, design, test and build solutions

• Excellent written and oral communication skills including presentations, workshop facilitation, business report writing

• Experience in managing stakeholders and the ability to work with people at all business levels

• Experience of working within major corporate or government IT environments

• Experience of working within a corporate or government IT environment that uses Workday technologies

• Workday integration technology experience

• Workday specialist training (HCM Fundamentals)

About the FCA  

The FCA regulates the conduct of nearly 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. We do this to make sure markets work well for individuals, businesses and the economy as a whole. For more information on what we do, our three-year strategy can be found here. 

The FCA's Values & Diversity

Our ambition is to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation. 

The FCA is committed to achieving greater diversity across all levels of the organisations. Given this, we particularly welcome applications from women, disabled and minority ethnic candidates for our Senior Associate role.  

Flexible working

We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements.  Many of our staff work flexibly including working part-time, staggered hours, and job shares.  We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we won’t judge you for asking.   
 

Multi-location

As part of the FCA’s on-going commitment to develop our national presence, most of our vacancies are now open to working in our Edinburgh, Leeds, or London offices. This means that as part of the application process you will be able to select your preference of which office location you would like to work from.  

Useful information 

• Applications for this role close at 23:59 1st December 2024

• This role is graded as Senior Associate – Regulatory

• Bi-weekly sprint cycle OOO rota

Got a question?   

If you are interested in learning more about the role please contact:

For internal applicants, please contact Michael Wood, [email protected] 

For external applicants, please contact Asha Gladis, [email protected] 

What to expect from our interview process 

The assessment process consists of an initial screening call with one our Recruitment Partners. If successful, you will be invited to attend a first stage competency-based interview. The final stage will include a technical case study and competency-based questions.   

Application support

We want to remove any possible barriers and are committed to providing a wide range of reasonable adjustments so that you can keep the focus on your conversations and be at your best.

If you have an accessibility requirement, disability, or condition that means you might require changes to the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter to discuss this further. Our aim is to make your application as easy and comfortable as possible, and your recruiter will be happy to work with you to make any necessary arrangements where possible.

Security Clearance/Vetting

The successful candidate will hold or will be required to obtain Security Clearance (SC) level vetting.

Please note that all applications must be submitted through our online portal, applications sent via email will not be accepted.