About this role
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience working with Workday Core HCM
- Previous experience undertaking Workday data audits, data cleansing, reconciliation and remediation projects
- Experience using Workday EIBs for bulk data uploads and corrections
- Good understanding of Workday supervisory organisations, reporting hierarchies and organisational structures
- Experience reconciling HR master data against external systems, ideally payroll platforms
- Strong understanding of employee data, including job profiles, job levels, employment status, FTE and organisational mapping
- Confidence engaging with senior HR/People stakeholders and local operational teams
- Highly analytical, detail-oriented and comfortable working to tight project deadlines
Responsibilities
- Conduct data quality audits across Workday Core HCM and identify missing information, inconsistencies, duplicates and anomalies
- Reconcile employee master data between Workday and local payroll systems, investigating discrepancies in employment status, working hours/FTE, hire and termination dates, legal entities, cost centres and job information
- Review and correct supervisory organisations, management hierarchies and reporting lines
- Identify and resolve issues with job profiles, job families, job levels and grade/band assignments
- Investigate inactive and contingent worker records, as well as outstanding or incomplete business processes
- Develop and execute data remediation plans with local People teams, validating and implementing corrections
- Carry out bulk data updates using Workday EIBs where appropriate, alongside manual transaction processing
- Produce regular progress updates, exception reports and data quality summaries
- Document recurring data issues, root causes and recommendations to improve ongoing data governance
- Produce handover documentation and guidance to support ongoing data quality maintenance
Technologies
- Support
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We are supporting a large, multi-site organisation with the appointment of a Workday Data Specialist for an initial six-week contract. This hands-on project focuses on improving the accuracy, consistency and integrity of employee master data across multiple business units, working closely with local People teams. The role is based in Solihull, with hybrid or remote working depending on location. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, experiences and abilities and are proud to be a disability-confident employer. By applying, candidates will be registered with Gleeson Recruitment Limited; our website privacy policy explains how candidate data is used.
last updated 45 week of 2026