WorkDay Business Analyst

Business Analyst - Workday Learning & AI Transformation

Location:

Hybrid - 3 days per week on-site in Reading or Dublin

Day Rate: £700 - £750 / day

Engagement Type: 6-Month Contract (Inside IR35)

Industry: Global Retail / Enterprise Transformation

We are seeking an experienced Workday Business Analyst to join a major multi-year, multi-country Workday HCM transformation programme. Operating within the global Learning Workstream, you will be key to shaping a state-of-the-art global learning platform across 17 international markets. This initiative represents an enterprise-scale integration bringing together Workday Learning (front-end learner experience) and Sana (back-end AI-driven content generation and translation). This is a pure core Business Analysis role.

You will own the analytical backbone of the workstream-eliciting requirements, defining As-Is/To-Be processes, mapping integration boundaries, and ensuring seamless functional design.

Day Rate: £700 - £750 per day

Contract Length: 6 Months

Working Setup:
Hybrid (3 days on-site per week in either Reading or Dublin)

IR35 Status:
Inside IR35

• Lead structured requirements gathering with global L&D leadership and market stakeholders, managing full traceability from Discovery through to signed-off design.
• Produce comprehensive As-Is and To-Be process maps across global and 17 market-specific operating models (administration, compliance training, ILT/VILT, reporting).
• Translate complex business needs into input for the Workday Learning Config Workbook and High-Level Design (HLD) alongside Solution and Functional Architects.
• Map and document the operational boundaries between Workday and Sana, ensuring clear division between front-end user experience and back-end AI content/translation workflows.
• Apply systems thinking to manage global design templates against local regulatory/market nuances, escalating trade-offs to formal governance.
• Support mandatory/compliance frameworks (expiry rules, re-certification, attestations) and define quantified learning content migration baselines.

• Enterprise BA Track Record:
  Demonstrated experience as a Business Analyst on complex, multi-year HR/HCM technology transformations.
• Workday Expertise:
  Proven experience on Workday implementations; direct experience with Workday Learning is strongly preferred.
• Core BA Disciplines:
  Exceptional skills in structured requirements elicitation, process flow mapping, gap analysis, and system architecture design translation.
• Governance
  
  Experience:
  
  Experience operating within formal methodology gates (Discovery & Design, Design Authority, Playbacks).
• Senior Stakeholder Management:
  Ability to challenge design decisions credibly and liaise comfortably between senior HR/L&D business leaders and technical teams.

• Broader exposure to alternative LMS/LXP enterprise solutions.
• Familiarity with AI-driven content tools, AI translation models, or adaptive learning engines.
• Experience designing learning frameworks for frontline, multi-site, or retail work forces with mobile/offline access constraints.
• Exposure to multi-jurisdictional compliance or Works Council/unionized workforce environments.