Business Analyst

Business Analyst (HR Systems / Workday HCM Transformation) – 24-Month FTC

Location: London (Hybrid – 4 days per week onsite) Contract: 24-Month Fixed-Term Contract Working Pattern: Full-Time

The Opportunity

A leading UK-based organisation is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to support the implementation and optimisation of a new Workday HCM platform as part of a wider people systems and operational transformation programme.

This role will play a critical part in understanding, documenting, and improving HR processes across a complex, multi-entity environment. Working closely with HR, Finance, Reward, Operations, and technology teams, you will ensure business requirements are clearly defined, validated, and translated into successful system outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Partner with HR, Reward, Finance, and operational stakeholders to gather, document, and validate business requirements.

Map end-to-end hire-to-retire and employee lifecycle processes, identifying gaps, risks, and opportunities for standardisation and improvement.

Produce high-quality business requirements, user stories, process documentation, and acceptance criteria.

Translate HR process requirements into clear specifications for system integration and delivery partners.

Support the design and optimisation of organisational structures within a complex, federated business environment.

Assess the impact of new HR processes and system functionality on HR teams, managers, and employees.

Validate workforce and people data to ensure accuracy, compliance, and alignment with business requirements.

Work closely with IT and data teams to ensure integrations support agreed business processes.

Support change management activities, including process documentation, training materials, and stakeholder communications.

Lead or contribute to User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including test planning, scenario creation, execution support, and defect management.

Required Experience

Proven experience as a Business Analyst on HR systems or people transformation programmes.

Strong expertise in requirements gathering, documentation, and stakeholder engagement.

Experience mapping end-to-end HR and employee lifecycle processes.

Skilled in producing user stories, business requirements, and acceptance criteria.

Strong understanding of HR operations, employee lifecycle activities, and associated business processes.

Experience supporting HCM system implementations, ideally within large or complex organisations.

Experience managing or supporting UAT activities for HR processes.

Ability to validate workforce data and assess business impacts.

Experience conducting gap analysis and business impact assessments.

Experience working within multi-entity, federated, or decentralised organisational structures.

Desirable Experience

Experience working on Workday HCM implementation or optimisation programmes.

Exposure to people systems transformation initiatives.

Experience partnering with Finance teams on workforce planning, reporting, organisational structures, or people-related business impacts.

Knowledge of HR data governance, integrations, and reporting processes.