Workday Human Capital Management Consultant

Role Overview

• Supports and maintains Workday HCM with emphasis on Payroll and Expenses
• Partners with Payroll, Finance, and cross‑functional stakeholders to ensure effective system performance
• Researches innovative idea solutions, consistently looking at ‘what is new’, and getting connected in the Workday community for best practices around what is best for the employee experience
• Performs complex configuration to transform and optimize Workday processes to continually improve the end user experience
• Leads discovery, design and customer confirmation and optimization sessions, demonstrates and explains complex functionality or solutions to functional subject matter experts
• Observes manual and automated processes on a regular cycle for opportunities to streamline, eliminate risk, and or close gaps
• Works with the team to continuously improve solutions, processes, procedures, documentation standards, etc.
• Ensures delivery of project deliverables and documentation
• Reviews and provides recommendations to ensure processes are scalable and easily maintained
• Coaches client during business process design, offering options, risks, and downstream impacts related to decisions
• Configures the Workday system per client business requirements and Workday standards
• Demonstrates computational thinking
• Identifies problem components, analyzes patterns, removes inefficient configurations or processes, and constructs algorithmic solutions scalable to ongoing client needs
• Provides alignment and collaboration with project leadership – proactively communicating project risks and issues
• Ensures functional solutions are compatible with downstream data translation (assists integrators in configuring/testing integrations between Workday and external systems)
• Ensures excellent customer focus, able to assess customer needs, build relationships, and manage customer expectations
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Five years’ experience
• Hands‑on Workday experience with strong focus on HCM, and demonstrated exposure to Payroll and Expenses modules
• Approximately 5+ years of Workday experience, with the ability to contribute quickly and independently
• Experience working across multiple Workday modules (beyond HCM) to support cross‑training and coverage within the team
• Payroll experience is highly preferred due to a current business gap and close partnership with the Payroll team
• Financials exposure is a strong plus but not required
• Workday certifications are preferred but not required; practical experience is prioritized, with training available for certification if desired
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively, share knowledge, and partner effectively with COEs and cross‑functional stakeholders
• Comfortable working in a fully remote, team‑based environment with minimal siloed work.

Benefits

• Paid Parental Leave : we offer eligible team members one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE).
• Flexible Payment Options: our voluntary benefit offered through DailyPay offers eligible hourly team members instant access to their earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday.
• Upfront Tuition Coverage : we provide upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members.