Case Study: Western Sydney Airport achieves faster decision-making and an agile, high-performing workforce with Workday

Western Sydney Airport develops a high-performing workforce and speeds up decision making

Western Sydney Airport (WSA), the government enterprise building Sydney’s new international airport, faced a greenfield challenge: as a rapidly growing organization on a $5.3B program with 1,500+ staff, it needed a scalable finance and HR platform fast to replace a fragmented information model and make critical data accurate, available, and manageable.

WSA chose Workday for its intuitive interface and rapid development cadence, deploying Workday HCM and Financial Management (plus recruiting, expenses, procurement and more). The single data model enabled powerful drill‑down reporting and frictionless workflows, delivering on‑the‑spot decision making, trend analysis in days or weeks (instead of months), easy chart‑of‑accounts pivots as the business evolves, smooth remote operation during the pandemic, and stronger organizational maturity and planning.

Western Sydney Airport

Tom McCormack

Chief Technology Officer