HCM Functional Consultant - Workday Success Plans
About the job
- At least 3 years of functional experience with HCM (Recruiting, Talent, and Performance Management) software solutions or systems.
- At least 3 years of experience implementing Workday, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Ultimate Software, ADP, Ceridian, or similar applications.
- At least 3 years of consulting experience.
- Maintain Workday product expertise and Workday certifications, and stay familiar with the Workday roadmap.
- Research customer questions and related Workday concepts to ensure accurate understanding.
- Deliver small-scope consulting in response to customer requests, including configuration guidance, demonstrations, considerations, tips, and tricks.
- Troubleshoot product configuration and resolve issues or recommend optimal configuration to meet customer business requirements.
- Communicate responses and the value of Workday solutions clearly and effectively to customers.
- Create and deliver customer presentations on using Workday features to achieve business goals through Accelerator Webinars.
- Provide one-on-one consulting guidance to accelerate customer feature adoption through Feature Accelerator.
- Review customer tenants to identify feature adoption opportunities through Feature Adoption Tenant Reviews.
- Stay up to date with industry practices and engage customers on those topics.
- Help drive the creation of programs that increase customer feature adoption.
- Perform configuration and business requirements reviews and deliver detailed findings identifying opportunities for optimization.
- Provide one-on-one customer configuration designs.
About the company
Workday builds cloud software that organizations use to manage employees, finances, and business plans. Its Human Capital Management and Financial Management applications handle processes such as hiring, payroll, expenses, accounting, and reporting, while Adaptive Planning helps teams build budgets and forecasts. Users work in connected applications with shared data and permissions, and Workday also sells AI tools that search information and carry out HR and finance tasks. Customers pay for subscriptions, with additional revenue from implementation, training, and other professional services. Workday was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Pleasanton, California
Founded
2005
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Subscriptions keep growing: Workday reported quarterly subscription revenue up 13.9% to $2.471 billion in August 2026 results.
- Regional distribution expanded: Workday launched UAE operations with a Dubai office and local leadership in October 2026.
- Employee development has explicit support: Workday's current careers page highlights internal mobility and investment in employee skills.
What critics are saying
- Job security weakened: Workday announced a 2.5% workforce reduction, mainly in Product and Technology, in September 2026.
- Incumbents resist displacement: Workday names Oracle and SAP as primary rivals with established customer relationships in HR and finance.
- Enterprise sales take time: Workday reports typical new customer sales cycles of six to twelve months, sometimes exceeding eighteen.
What makes Workday unique
- AI acts inside established permissions: Workday launched Sana with over 300 HR and finance skills in March 2026.
- Federal planning meets authorization requirements: Workday Adaptive Planning achieved FedRAMP Moderate for sensitive unclassified data in July 2026.
- Custom apps inherit platform controls: Workday Extend lets developers build applications using its existing organizational and security models.
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0%Commutifi launched two products on October 13, 2026: the Commutifi MCP, which links its platform to AI tools companies already use, and the Workday Commute Agent Suite, built on it. Together they bring commute management into Workday, where users can run programs by asking Workday's Sana, Claude, or ChatGPT. Commuting is a $1 trillion category in the US, yet less than 1% of commute data reaches Workday. The suite pulls parking, transit, shuttle, vanpool, and benefits data into one system alongside existing employee and location data. Specialist agents compare commute options, assess parking leases, and trace costs to contracts. Each agent acts only within the user's permissions, and nothing is booked or spent without explicit approval. Workday is testing the suite at its Boulder, Colorado office. Both products are in early access, with general availability within the month.
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Workday announced Workday Candidate Profile at its Rising 2026 event in Las Vegas on October 13, 2026. The tool lets job seekers save their information once and reuse it when applying to the thousands of companies that hire through Workday. Applicants sign in with an email and a one-time code, with no new password. About 80% of standard fields will be pre-filled, which Workday expects to make applying about 40% faster. Candidates can edit entries and choose what each employer sees. Workday says 60% of candidates abandon applications because of length and friction. The tool does not rank, recommend, or reject anyone, and employers need not change how they hire. It is expected to reach Workday Recruiting customers in early calendar year 2027.
Workday has made Sana its new Workday Home, an AI experience that gathers tasks, decisions, meetings, and agent activity in one place. Announced at Workday Rising in Las Vegas on October 13, 2026, it lets employees ask for what they need in plain language while Sana directs Workday's agents to do the work. Sana can act, not just answer: approve an expense, process a leave request, or reset a password. Every action follows a company's existing rules, with people brought in when approval or judgment is needed. Workday also introduced Sana Concierge, an HR and IT service agent that resolves requests such as onboarding, leave, and password resets before they become tickets. The new Home is available now. Concierge is open to early adopters and is expected to reach general availability in the first quarter of 2027.
Workday launched Work Intelligence on October 13, 2026, a tool that shows companies how AI is changing the tasks inside each job and which skills staff will need next. It breaks jobs into tasks and links those tasks to skills. The tool draws on Workday Skills Cloud, which more than 3,450 customers use. It is built on an ontology of more than 75,000 canonical skills. Work Intelligence works with Workday Decision Intelligence to show which employees hold adjacent skills, and with Workday Learning powered by Sana to suggest personalised learning paths. Leaders can also measure how AI affects tasks, time use, and roles. Neither tool makes decisions about people. "The basic building block of work is shifting from the job to the task," said Nikki Helmer, vice president, talent management and insights, at Workday. It is available now to early access Workday Human Capital Management customers.