Senior Workday Analyst

Closing Date: 25th May 2026

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.

Heart and soul. Passion and personality. You may know us as the home of PERi-PERi goodness, but we're actually a people-first, chicken-second kind of place.