Workday Payroll Senior Consultant

Overview

This role is part of the Human Capital practice, which helps organizations address the changing nature of work, workforce, and workplace. The Human Capital team applies sector experience and cross-domain insight to support complex workforce challenges and align talent strategies to business priorities.

Recruiting for this role ends on 06/11/2027.

Responsibilities

As a Workday Payroll Senior Consultant on the HR Strategy & Technology team, you will:

• Lead Workday Payroll implementations, enhancements, and optimization activities.
• Gather business requirements and translate them into functional designs and configuration decisions.
• Facilitate client meetings to align on scope, priorities, and deliverables.
• Support testing, defect resolution, deployment, and stabilization activities.
• Prepare deliverables and collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute project work.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• 4+ years of experience supporting or leading workstreams on Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) implementation or optimization projects.
• 4+ years of experience leading workstreams as part of Workday implementations, with knowledge in 2 or more areas of the HCM product, including configuration of the system.
• Experience participating in at least 2 end-to-end Workday implementations.
• Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work and the clients and industries/sectors served.
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.

Preferred

• 4+ years of experience supporting Workday implementations or optimization efforts.
• Workday certification in 1 or more functional areas.
• 4+ years of experience in consulting solutions for Fortune 500 or equivalent clients.
• 2+ years of experience mentoring and developing junior staff through onboarding, skills development, or performance reviews.
• Experience leading client workshops and requirements sessions.

Compensation & Benefits

• Estimated wage range: $116,200 to $229,100.
• Eligibility for a discretionary annual incentive program may be available, subject to program rules, including individual and organizational performance.
• The employer is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities.

Location

Travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.