Senior Workday Payroll Consultant(UKG Exp)

Title: Senior Workday Payroll Consultant
Duration: 6+ Months of Contract with Possible Extension
Location: Tulsa, OK (onsite from Day 1)
Experience: 12+ years Mandatory
Roles and Responsibilities:
Serve as a senior techno-functional resource supporting the Payroll team and production payroll cycles.
Configure and maintain Workday Payroll, including earnings, deductions, payroll calculations, tax-related configuration, payroll inputs, eligibility rules and supporting business processes.
Translate payroll operational, statutory and regulatory requirements into appropriate Workday configuration.
Assess payroll-impacting regulatory changes and configure, test and deploy required Workday changes.
Support payroll teams in diagnosing calculation errors, configuration issues and payroll exceptions.
Perform root-cause analysis of complex payroll issues and coordinate resolution across Payroll, HRIS, Workday and third-party providers.
Support Workday releases, regression testing and configuration changes affecting payroll.
Country payroll enablement
Support the addition and configuration of new countries/payroll populations within the organization's Workday and payroll-provider landscape.
Analyze country-specific payroll requirements and determine impacts to Workday configuration and downstream payroll processing.
Configure payroll-related business processes, data requirements, mappings and supporting rules.
Coordinate testing, validation and production readiness with Payroll, HR, Tax, Finance and payroll providers.
Tax and regulatory configuration
Maintain strong understanding of payroll taxation, statutory deductions and regulatory requirements relevant to supported countries.
Evaluate legislative changes and translate them into Workday Payroll configuration and testing requirements.
Experience responding to significant U.S. payroll/tax legislative change is highly desirable. For example, experience analyzing and implementing payroll impacts arising from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) or comparable major tax/regulatory changes would be particularly valuable.
Partner with Payroll/Tax specialists to validate calculations and ensure configuration accurately reflects approved requirements.
ADP & Payroll Integration Responsibilities
Provide functional and techno-functional ownership of integrations between Workday and ADP payroll services.
Strong experience with PECI (Payroll Effective Change Interface) and other Workday payroll integration frameworks.
Experience supporting ADP SmartConnect or comparable Workday-to-payroll-provider integrations is highly desirable.
Understand integration configuration, schedules, data mappings, eligibility/data selection, validation and error handling.
Troubleshoot failed or incorrect payroll interface results and determine whether issues originate in:
o Workday configuration or worker data
o Payroll configuration
o PECI/change detection
o Connector configuration or mapping
o ADP/provider processing
o Integration execution
Work effectively with Workday integration developers or ADP technical resources when technical development is required.
Integration development is not a primary responsibility. The emphasis is on configuration, functional understanding, monitoring, testing and troubleshooting existing integrations.
Secondary Responsibilities: Time & Attendance / UKG WFM
Strong understanding of Time & Attendance processes, including time capture, schedules, overtime, premiums, absence/time-off interaction, approvals and payroll interfaces.
Support configuration and troubleshooting of time-related processes affecting payroll.
Experience with UKG Workforce Management (UKG WFM) is strongly preferred.
Ideally able to:
o Configure UKG WFM.
o Support timekeeping and scheduling rules.
o Develop or support operational reporting.
o Troubleshoot integrations between UKG WFM, Workday and payroll.
o Analyze discrepancies between time data and resulting payroll calculations.
Understand the end-to-end flow from time capture Workday/HR data payroll calculation payroll provider employee payment.
Required Experience
6 10+ years of HR/payroll systems experience.
4 6+ years of hands-on Workday experience, with significant depth in Workday Payroll.
Multiple years of production support and configuration experience rather than implementation-only experience.
Demonstrated experience supporting payroll operations and resolving production payroll issues.
Hands-on experience configuring Workday Payroll and implementing payroll-related regulatory or tax changes.
Experience supporting Workday-to-ADP or comparable third-party payroll integrations.
Strong working knowledge of PECI and Workday payroll integration concepts.
Experience with multi-country or global payroll environments strongly preferred.
Experience enabling new payroll countries or populations strongly preferred.
UKG WFM experience preferred
Core Technical / Functional Skills
Must Have
Workday Payroll configuration
Payroll processing and operations knowledge
Payroll tax and regulatory configuration
Workday Payroll production troubleshooting
Workday-to-ADP integration knowledge
PECI configuration/support/troubleshooting
Payroll connector configuration and troubleshooting
New-country/payroll-population enablement
Workday reporting and data analysis
Payroll testing and regression testing
Strongly Preferred
ADP SmartConnect
Multi-country/global payroll
UKG WFM
Time & Attendance configuration
UKG reporting and integration troubleshooting
Major legislative/tax change implementation experience
Nice to Have
Workday certifications in Payroll and/or related HCM areas
Workday Absence/Time Tracking knowledge
Experience working in an AMS or managed-services environment
Experience supporting Workday release management