Workday Consultant
Job Description:
This long-term engagement focuses on ongoing support, enhancements, integrations, release management and roadmap initiatives. The Workday Consultant will act as a senior functional authority, owning solution design across Workday HCM and adjacent functional areas and working directly with client HRIS and business stakeholders.
Main Tasks
- Lead functional solution design for enhancements and roadmap projects across Workday HCM and adjacent modules.
- Run discovery and design workshops with HR and business stakeholders.
- Produce design documents, configuration workbooks and decision logs.
- Own complex Workday configuration, including Business Process frameworks, Security, Eligibility and Condition Rules and tenant setup.
- Define functional integration requirements and validate integration outcomes with the Lead Engineer.
- Lead functional impact analysis and feature-adoption strategy for Workday releases.
- Review configuration and designs produced by Senior and Mid-level Engineers.
- Act as a functional escalation point.
- Own functional knowledge transfer during transition from the incumbent vendor.
Required Skills
7+ years hands-on Workday experience in live tenants – CRITICAL.
Deep expertise in Workday HCM Core plus at least two adjacent modules – CRITICAL.
Adjacent modules may include Payroll, Recruiting, Talent, Benefits, Time & Absence or Compensation.
Workday functional solution design ownership.
Experience leading design workshops and producing design documentation for US enterprise clients.
Advanced Workday Reporting and Calculated Fields.
Understanding of Workday Security and Business Process architecture.
Experience across multiple Workday release cycles.
Experience with at least one vendor or platform transition.
Advanced English with executive-level stakeholder communication skills.
Desired Skills
- Current or former Workday certification in HCM, Payroll, Recruiting, Compensation or related areas.
- Prism Analytics.
- Workday Extend.
- Adaptive Planning.
- Retail experience.
- High-volume hourly-workforce experience.