Overview
Workday Data Lead (Contract) Location: Remote (UK) + Occasional London Onsite • Contract: Outside IR35 • Start: ASAP • Duration: 6+ months (extendable)
Job Summary: A senior Workday Data Lead is required to take ownership of data quality, governance, reporting, and optimisation across Workday Financials (primary focus) and Workday HCM (secondary). This role is hands-on and responsible for improving data accuracy, strengthening reporting capability, and ensuring that Workday delivers reliable, business-ready insights.
Role Overview
The Workday Data Lead will oversee all data activity across the Workday platform, with a particular emphasis on Financials. This includes data governance, data structures, reporting development, migration cycles, and cross-functional data quality improvements. The role acts as the central point of expertise for Finance, HR, IT, and transformation teams.
Programme / Project Context
The organisation is deploying Workday Financials and have a strong focus on data integrity, governance, and analytics capability. This role leads the data workstream, ensuring all structures, reporting, and governance processes meet operational, analytical, and compliance requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead Workday data governance across Financials and HCM, covering data standards, validation rules, quality controls, and stewardship.
- Run full data migration cycles including mapping, transformation, cleansing, loading, and reconciliation.
- Build and optimise Workday reporting assets: Composite Reports, Advanced Reports, Matrix, Calculated Fields, Discovery Boards.
- Own key Workday Financials data structures such as Chart of Accounts, Ledger, Suppliers, Customers, Spend, Assets.
- Support integration data mapping and validation activities.
- Improve data quality across Finance and HR functional areas.
- Provide subject matter expertise to business, IT, and project teams.
Must Have Requirements
- Must have proven experience as a Workday Data Lead or Senior Workday Data Specialist.
- Must have strong hands-on experience with Workday Financials.
- Required Workday reporting expertise (Composite, Advanced, Calculated Fields, Discovery Boards).
- Mandatory experience delivering ERP/Workday data migrations.
- Required understanding of financial data structures (COA, Ledger, Suppliers, Customers, Spend, Assets).
- Minimum 5 years in Workday/ERP data roles.
- Necessary experience implementing or maturing data governance frameworks.
Dealbreakers
- No Workday experience.
- No Workday Financials background.
- No ERP/Workday migration experience.
- Unable to travel to London when required. (This isn't going to be often)
- No valid UK right to work (no sponsorship available).
Nice to Have / Preferred Experience
- Workday Prism Analytics
- EIB / Core Connector experience
- Finance analytics or reporting background
- Experience coaching or mentoring junior data analysts
Technology / Functional Keywords
Platform Keywords: Workday, Workday Financials, Workday HCM, Prism Analytics, EIB, Core Connectors
Functional Keywords: Data Migration, Data Governance, Data Quality, Reconciliation, Chart of Accounts, Financial Data Structures, Reporting Development, Calculated Fields, ERP Data, Finance Transformation
Capability Keywords: SME Leadership, Data Stewardship, Cross Functional Collaboration, Optimisation, Stakeholder Management, Financial Systems, Enterprise Platform Data, Data lead, Workday Data Lead, Workday Data Consultant
Contract / Additional Details
- Contract: Outside IR35
- Location: Remote (UK) with occasional onsite in London
- Rate: Competitive
- Start: ASAP
- Duration: 6+ months with strong potential to extend. I am expecting 12-18 months
- Working Pattern: Primarily remote with planned onsite workshops
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