Workday User Access Review Analyst

This Workday User Access Review Analyst role at WPP, based in Chennai, focuses specifically on access governance and compliance rather than functional HCM or Financials configuration work. You will maintain and monitor the User Access Review (UAR) process, using Workday's built-in access control features to enforce appropriate role-based permissions across the organization. Reviewing access changes tied to hires, terminations, and role changes is a core recurring responsibility, ensuring departing employees lose system access promptly and new hires or transferred employees receive appropriate access without excessive privilege. Beyond Workday itself, this role's scope extends to reviewing access across other enterprise systems including SAP, Oracle, and Dynamics 365, reflecting a broader identity and access governance mandate.

Candidates need 3-8 years of experience with specific Workday security and access management expertise, combined with broader multi-ERP access governance knowledge spanning SAP, Oracle, and Dynamics 365. Strong Excel and data manipulation skills are required to manage and analyze access review data at scale. Practical Segregation of Duties (SoD) knowledge is essential given the compliance framing of this role. Comfort maintaining detailed UAR documentation is expected, since this directly supports audit readiness across WPP's multi-system enterprise landscape, where gaps in this process create genuine security and compliance risk that this analyst is specifically responsible for catching early.