HRIS Security Business Analyst (Workday platform)

Most Workday roles focus on projects and configuration. This role is different.

We are looking for an experienced Workday professional who wants to go beyond traditional business analysis and become a key custodian of our Workday platform. We recently expanded our Workday system to include both Financials and HCM.

You will manage Workday security, platform governance, shared setup administration and operational controls across HR and Finance domains. While you will also participate in enhancements, configuration and project delivery, a significant portion of your role will involve ensuring our Workday platform remains secure, compliant, scalable and audit-ready.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys understanding how Workday works behind the scenes, has strong systems thinking capabilities, and wants to deepen expertise in security architecture, governance, risk controls and HR/Finance platform operations.

Workday Security & Platform Administration

• Serve as a subject matter expert for Workday security architecture across Workday Financials and HCM.
• Design, maintain and review security domains, security groups, business process security policies and role assignments.
• Perform security impact assessments and recommend appropriate access controls for new solutions and enhancements.
• Support user provisioning, privileged access administration, segregation of duties reviews and audit investigations.
• Strengthen security governance, data protection practices and regulatory compliance controls.

Manage Platform Operations & Shared Setup

• Administer and maintain shared platform setup across Prod and SBX tenants.
• Manage platform configurations such as BPs, reference data, custom objects, dashboards and shared setup components.
• Perform tenant comparisons and impact analysis following Workday releases and deployments.
• Support tenant migrations, deployment activities and post-deployment validation.
• Ensure platform consistency, operational stability and data integrity across environments.
• Support integration deployments, ISU administration and related security configurations.

Enhancements & Solution Design

• Work with HR and Finance stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable Workday solutions.
• Configure and support Workday Financials and HCM capabilities across multiple functional areas.
• Partner Product Owners and Technology teams to evaluate enhancement opportunities and optimise business processes.
• Conduct impact assessments to ensure proposed changes do not adversely affect downstream processes, integrations or security models.
• Support project implementations, regression testing and solution rollout activities.

Operate in a highly controlled environment

• Ensure solutions comply with regulatory, audit, and data privacy requirements.
• Strengthen security models and safeguard sensitive HR data. You are expected to have rigor as you handle sensitive employee data in our systems.
• Continuously improve controls and governance frameworks.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on Workday experience in:
  • Workday HCM
  • Workday Financials
• Strong practical experience with:
  • Workday Security Domains
  • Security Groups
  • Business Process Security Policies
  • Role-Based Access Controls
  • Access Governance
  • Audit and Compliance Controls
• Strong analytical thinking — able to break down problems and design solutions.
• Ability to assess cross-functional impacts across systems, processes and stakeholder groups.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Preferred Experience

• Workday HCM experience is preferred.
• However, Workday Financial candidates with strong HCM knowledge & substantial security experience are equally encouraged to apply.
• We do not expect candidates to be experts in both Financials and HCM. Successful candidates will have opportunities to broaden their expertise across both domains over time.

 About the HRIS Team

The HRIS team sits at the intersection of HR, Technology, and Data — we don’t just run and build systems, we shape how DBS manages its people and talent at scale.

In practice, that means:

• We design and operate the digital backbone of HR – People Hub (Workday), Learning Hub, IPAs, integrations, data platforms that powers every employee lifecycle moment — from hire to retire.
• Recently we expanded Workday in DBS beyond HCM and HR modules, it now encompasses Workday Financials, hence the need for this role.
• We translate real business problems into system solutions. We also work closely with our Tech partners to achieve joined up solutions.
• Increasingly, we are creating AI agents and systems with “Human in the lead” through DBS GPT and Workday.

This is a fairly large and close knit team, it’s fun, rewarding and stable. The team members have a growth mindset, collaborate well and are experts in their domains.

Location:

DBS Asia Hub

Job:

Technology

Schedule:

Regular

Employee Status:

Full time