Workday Functional Consultant

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center : Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health is committed to an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your uniqueness is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research. Organization: HR WD Sustainment Job Summary: The Workday Functional Consultant serves in a Vanderbilt Health-wide enterprise role in central departments of Human Resources supporting Workday system functionality and integrating systems with a focus on business processes, application support and optimization. Performing a variety of routine and complex tasks to maintain timely and accurate data integrity through analysis and reporting. This role is responsible for analyzing business requirements, recommending and testing Workday solutions, and managing system enhancements. The Workday Functional Consultant supports Workday release activities, communicates new functionality to stakeholders, and helps maintain data integrity. Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm CST. . Preferred Skills & Experience - 4+ years of hands-on Workday configuration experience, with strong expertise in Business Process design and configuration. - Proven ability to partner with business stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into scalable Workday solutions. - Functional knowledge across Workday modules including Absence, Benefits, HCM, and Performance Management. - Strong consultative and relationship-building skills with experience supporting cross-functional business teams. - Experience configuring and supporting the Workday Absence module, including leave plans, PTO programs, and related business processes. - Experience configuring and supporting the Workday Performance Management module. - Strong understanding of requirements gathering, solution design, and evaluating enhancement requests to determine system capabilities, limitations, and downstream impacts. - Demonstrated success in a client-facing or stakeholder-facing role, serving as a trusted advisor or SME - Experience creating, running, and analyzing Workday reports to support business decision-making and operational needs. - Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to confidently facilitate meetings, present recommendations, and explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences - Experience leading discussions related to Workday enhancements, system changes, testing, and release impacts. - Workday certifications KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Working with VUMC functional areas to provide support for the use and maintenance of functional systems including, but not limited to, Workday. - Drive ongoing process improvements or redesign within VUMC’s Workday that align with enterprise strategic objectives and vision. - Collaborate with functional workstreams to identify business needs, functional design, integration review, testing requirements and deployment plans to meet current and future needs. - Display business acumen to understand business needs or challenges and recommend solutions. - Provide excellent customer service and education to end users of Workday and integration service/ support requests through internal ticketing system. - Engage with insight and support for break/fix, new functionality, process improvements, innovative solutions and sprint planning. - Review and analyze Workday Release of