Workday Functional Lead - Human Capital Management / Payroll

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Own and refine the HCM and Payroll backlog in line with business priorities, product strategy and the Corporate Workday roadmap.
• Coordinate feature adoption, configuration, release assessment, testing, deployment and support across the Workday platform.
• Provide HR reporting and analytics expertise and operate a tiered support model for Workday HCM and Payroll.
• Support tenant administration, governance, documentation, sprint planning, user stories, acceptance criteria and delivery quality.
• Work with stakeholders, delivery teams and third-party partners to balance priorities and deliver valuable outcomes.
• Complete a DBS check at the level required for the role and applicable legislation.

Essential requirements

• Deep Workday expertise across HCM, Payroll, Absence and Compensation.
• Experience with Workday feature release cycles and SaaS platform updates.
• Functional knowledge of HCM and Payroll processes, including employee lifecycle, absence, compensation and pay.
• Experience as a Product Owner, Functional Lead or Business Analyst in Agile teams.
• Experience managing requirements, backlogs, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Strong Agile delivery experience using Scrum and/or Kanban.
• Strong stakeholder management, analytical, problem-solving, communication and planning skills.
• Experience supporting QA, user acceptance testing, sign-off and deployment.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams, third parties and offshore colleagues where applicable.
• Experience using Jira, Confluence, Teams and Miro.

Beneficial experience

• Functional SME or domain lead experience.
• Workday tenant administration, HR reporting and analytics experience.
• Experience with managed service providers, tiered support or live-service environments.
• Experience in HR transformation, enterprise system implementation or digital transformation programmes.
• Product Owner, Agile Business Analyst or relevant Workday certifications are beneficial.
• Familiarity with business architecture, process design, change management, data design, schemas and workflows is useful.

Workplace

• The role follows a hybrid working model, with part of the week at the contractual location and remaining days worked remotely.
• The contractual location is associated with The FA's Wembley operations.

Benefits

• The FA offers competitive salary, private medical cover, contributory pension, annual leave, volunteering days and development opportunities.
• Benefits include event-day tickets, free lunches at Wembley Stadium and St. George's Park, and an additional Thank You day's leave.