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About the Role
The Workday HCM Functional Consultant is responsible for the ongoing optimization and support of BDO’s Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) product. This role works closely with P&C to ensure the Workday platform is reliable, secure, and effectively utilized. This is an initial 7-month contract, 4 days per week, with potential for extension or permanent conversion.
Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day support and administration of the Workday HCM product, including Core HCM, Absence, Recruitment, Performance, and Talent Management.
- Troubleshoot and resolve system issues, incidents, and user queries ensuring minimal business disruption.
- Support Workday business processes by monitoring, maintaining, and enhancing configurations to meet evolving business needs.
- Participate in testing activities across releases and changes.
- Contribute to Workday release management by assessing impact of biannual releases and supporting feature adoption where relevant.
- Develop and maintain documentation including business process flows, configuration design, and user guidance materials.
- Adhere to established change management processes, ensuring all system updates are appropriately documented, tested, approved, and deployed in line with governance standards.
Requirements
- Proven experience working with Workday (HCM) in a delivery, optimisation or support role.
- Strong knowledge of Workday functionality, including configuration, security, business process frameworks, and reporting (e.g. calculated fields).
- Experience partnering with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to deliver practical, fit-for-purpose solutions that support business outcomes.
- The ability to take ownership of issues and enhancements by providing timely resolution.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to troubleshoot system issues and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Experience in eliciting, clarifying and validating business requirements.
Skills
- Workday HCM
- Core HCM
- Absence Management
- Recruitment
- Performance Management
- Talent Management
- Workday Configuration
- Workday Security
- Business Process Frameworks
- Workday Reporting
- Calculated Fields
- Stakeholder Management
- Problem-Solving
- Analytical Skills
- Requirements Elicitation
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Contract
- Part-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business or a related discipline is highly desirable.
- Workday certifications are highly regarded.
Benefits
- Health and wellbeing benefits
- Social benefits
- Financial benefits
- Professional development benefits
- Fitness challenges
- Exclusive discounts to corporate health insurance, gym memberships and wellness facilities via our BWell program
- Travel perks
- Retail discounts
- Employee referral rewards
- Study and professional development support
- Enhanced family support leave
- Cultural leave
- Religious leave
- Options to purchase additional leave
- Community initiatives via our BCaring program
- On the job training
- Formal development programs
About the Company
- BDO is a global professional services firm connected to local markets.
- Our people work together to provide specialist expertise, helping businesses achieve their goals.
- We inspire others, to go further.
- We create together, to reach higher.
- We build trust, to lead purposefully.
- Whether you're building your future or starting your career with us, you won’t do it alone.
- From creating solutions for our clients to building careers for our people, we shape what matters.
- Working for BDO you will be part of a growing and market leading professional services firm.
- Our national and global footprint provides our people with opportunities to work on interesting client engagements, across diverse industry sectors and services.
- Our open and collaborative culture ensures access to Partners and professional mentors, to guide and accelerate your professional career, across a wide array of career pathways.
- Our culture is underpinned by our core values (One, Bold, Human, Heart and Strive).
- We are always looking ahead, thinking bigger, reaching further and always staying personal and human in everything we do.
- We’re by your side, backing you to explore ideas and new ways of working to shape the future you want to see.
Equal Opportunity
- We are proud to be recognised as an Inclusive Employer for 2025-2026 by Diversity Council of Australia and a 2024-2025 Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA).
- BDO is committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment practices. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview process, we encourage you to contact our Talent Acquisition team at recruitment@bdo.com.au.