Planet
Workday HCM Analyst
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About Planet
Planet is a global provider of integrated technology and payments solutions for retail and hospitality customers. We create great experiences for the millions of people who use our payments, software, and tax-free solutions every minute of every day. Planet empowers its customers to deliver great customer experiences by combining payments and software in ways that drive greater loyalty, increase revenue and save time. Founded over 35 years ago and with our headquarters in London, today we have more than 2,500 employees located across six continents serving our customers in more than 120 markets.
Role Overview
Planet is looking for a hands-on Workday Analyst to support the configuration, reporting, optimisation, and ongoing improvement of Planet’s Workday platform. The role will work closely with People Operations, Payroll, Reward, IT, Finance, and business stakeholders to ensure Workday is stable, accurate, scalable, and easy to use.
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What you will do
- Configure, maintain, and enhance Workday functionality across Core HCM and related People processes.
- Build and maintain reports, calculated fields, business processes, condition rules, and supporting configuration.
- Investigate and resolve Workday issues, identifying root causes and sustainable fixes.
- Support testing, release readiness, documentation, and change deployment.
- Partner with stakeholders to improve processes, data quality, user experience, and operational controls.
Ideal candidate:
- Hands-on Workday configuration experience, ideally across Core HCM and one or more additional functional areas.
- Good understanding of Workday business processes, reporting, security, organisations, worker data, eligibility, and calculated fields.
- Strong Excel and data validation skills.
- Clear communicator who can work confidently with People, Payroll, Reward, IT, Finance, and support teams.
- Practical, detail-focused, and improvement-minded, with good judgement on governance, risk, and sustainable design.
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Who you are
The successful candidate will have practical Workday configuration experience, strong reporting and data skills, and the ability to translate business requirements into clear, well-controlled system solutions. Experience with Workday Absence, Time Tracking, Compensation, and Reporting would be beneficial. Workday certification would be preferable.
Why Planet
Planet is an equal opportunity employer where diversity is valued, and all employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need. Come and grow your career in the most exciting, fast-paced technology market, with a business that delivers feel-good connected commerce. We would love to hear from you – Apply now.
At Planet, we embrace a hybrid work model, with three days a week in the office. Reasonable accommodations may be made in order to allow for an individual to perform the essential functions of this role successfully.
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