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Workday HCM (Consultant & Lead Consultant)

Parker Shaw

Posted on Jun 24, 2026 by Parker Shaw
Swindon, United Kingdom
IT
Immediate Start
£53k - £66k Annual
Full-Time

We're recruiting Workday HCM Consultants at both Consultant and Lead level to support a major Workday platform within a complex shared services environment.

This is an opportunity to play a key role in delivering and evolving Workday HCM solutions, supporting HR transformation at scale.

The Opportunity

You'll contribute to the implementation, optimisation, and ongoing support of Workday HCM, working alongside HR stakeholders, programme teams and technical specialists.

  • Consultants: hands-on delivery, support and configuration
  • Leads: technical leadership, design assurance and team mentorship

Key Responsibilities

Across both levels

  • Deliver and support Workday HCM across areas including:
    • Core HCM
    • Organisations & Staffing Models
    • Business Process Framework
    • Compensation, Absence, Talent, Performance
  • Support incident resolution, service delivery and continuous improvement
  • Gather requirements and translate into functional designs and configurations
  • Contribute to testing, releases and system enhancements
  • Collaborate with HR, Payroll and technical teams
  • Maintain documentation and support knowledge transfer

Additional responsibilities at Lead level

  • Provide technical and functional leadership across Workday HCM
  • Define and assure best practice design and configuration
  • Act as a senior escalation point for complex issues
  • Lead workshops and influence senior stakeholders
  • Mentor and develop junior consultants and team members

What We're Looking For

Essential

  • Experience with Workday HCM (configuration, support or implementation)
  • Strong understanding of HR processes in complex organisations
  • Experience gathering and documenting business requirements
  • Experience working within Agile or structured delivery frameworks
  • Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills

Additional for Lead roles

  • Proven experience providing technical leadership or oversight
  • Experience leading or mentoring consultants/analysts

Desirable

  • Public sector or shared services experience
  • Workday Payroll or third-party integrations
  • Experience with integrations, reporting, analytics
  • Exposure to other ERP platforms

If you feel you have the skills and experience needed for this role; please do apply now.

By applying for this job and submitting your CV to Parker Shaw, you acknowledge and give permission for us to pass it to an associate company for resourcing purposes. We outsource some of our resourcing calls to a trusted third-party company and they may call you to discuss this opportunity with you. They will then report back to us with the outcome of their conversation with you, where upon we will decide whether to submit your CV to the end client. Please be assured that the third-party company do not store or control any of your data, this is all done by ourselves (Parker Shaw).


Reference: 3128032587

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Parker Shaw

Workday HCM (Consultant & Lead Consultant)

Parker Shaw

Posted on Jun 24, 2026 by Parker Shaw

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Swindon, United Kingdom
IT
Immediate Start
£53k - £66k Annual
Full-Time

We're recruiting Workday HCM Consultants at both Consultant and Lead level to support a major Workday platform within a complex shared services environment.

This is an opportunity to play a key role in delivering and evolving Workday HCM solutions, supporting HR transformation at scale.

The Opportunity

You'll contribute to the implementation, optimisation, and ongoing support of Workday HCM, working alongside HR stakeholders, programme teams and technical specialists.

  • Consultants: hands-on delivery, support and configuration
  • Leads: technical leadership, design assurance and team mentorship

Key Responsibilities

Across both levels

  • Deliver and support Workday HCM across areas including:
    • Core HCM
    • Organisations & Staffing Models
    • Business Process Framework
    • Compensation, Absence, Talent, Performance
  • Support incident resolution, service delivery and continuous improvement
  • Gather requirements and translate into functional designs and configurations
  • Contribute to testing, releases and system enhancements
  • Collaborate with HR, Payroll and technical teams
  • Maintain documentation and support knowledge transfer

Additional responsibilities at Lead level

  • Provide technical and functional leadership across Workday HCM
  • Define and assure best practice design and configuration
  • Act as a senior escalation point for complex issues
  • Lead workshops and influence senior stakeholders
  • Mentor and develop junior consultants and team members

What We're Looking For

Essential

  • Experience with Workday HCM (configuration, support or implementation)
  • Strong understanding of HR processes in complex organisations
  • Experience gathering and documenting business requirements
  • Experience working within Agile or structured delivery frameworks
  • Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills

Additional for Lead roles

  • Proven experience providing technical leadership or oversight
  • Experience leading or mentoring consultants/analysts

Desirable

  • Public sector or shared services experience
  • Workday Payroll or third-party integrations
  • Experience with integrations, reporting, analytics
  • Exposure to other ERP platforms

If you feel you have the skills and experience needed for this role; please do apply now.

By applying for this job and submitting your CV to Parker Shaw, you acknowledge and give permission for us to pass it to an associate company for resourcing purposes. We outsource some of our resourcing calls to a trusted third-party company and they may call you to discuss this opportunity with you. They will then report back to us with the outcome of their conversation with you, where upon we will decide whether to submit your CV to the end client. Please be assured that the third-party company do not store or control any of your data, this is all done by ourselves (Parker Shaw).

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Reference: 3128032587

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