Senior Workday Analyst

Salary up to: Competitive

Senior Workday Analyst Contractor

Workday Absence Specialist | Nando’s

Nando’s is looking for a Senior Workday Analyst Contractor with strong hands-on Workday Absence expertise to support the ongoing design, configuration and optimisation of its Workday platform.
This is an Absence-first role. The core requirement is deep experience configuring and delivering Workday Absence in a live environment. Alongside this, you’ll need solid Core HCM knowledge and a practical understanding of Workday Security.

Working as part of a broader Workday landscape, you’ll help deliver Absence-related change, support production stability, and ensure solutions are scalable, effective and aligned to business needs.

What you’ll be doing
Leading the design and hands-on configuration of Workday Absence

Configuring absence plans, accruals, balances, eligibility and carry-forward rules

Supporting leave of absence frameworks and policy-led requirements

Translating business requirements into scalable Workday solutions

Supporting delivery across design, build, testing, deployment and defect resolution

Troubleshooting Absence issues in a live production environment

Ensuring Absence configuration aligns with Core HCM processes

Supporting related security analysis across domain, BP, role-based, user-based and intersection security
 

What we’re looking for
Proven experience as a senior Workday functional consultant or analyst

Strong hands-on Workday Absence configuration expertise

Experience delivering Absence solutions in a live Workday environment

Good understanding of Core HCM

Practical experience of Workday Security

Strong problem-solving and impact analysis skills

Ability to work closely with business, functional and technical stakeholders

Clear, confident communication style
 

Why Nando’s
Nando’s is on a journey of Changing Lives Together, creating lasting happiness for its people, customers and communities. Its values of Pride, Passion, Courage, Integrity and Family are central to how teams work, support each other and deliver great outcomes.

We know that great candidates don’t always match every requirement exactly. If your experience is close to what we’re looking for and you’re excited by the role, we’d still love to hear from you.

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