Workday Payroll and Integration Lead

Workday Payroll and Integration Lead

Requirements

• 8+ years delivering large-scale engagements with a combination of Workday Payroll, Time Tracking and Absence Management with leadership responsibilities.
• Experience working with UltiPro Payroll system and Integration with SAP is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify complex concepts, and tailor messages to the higher levels within an organization.
• Ability to work independently and lead multiple customer projects simultaneously.
• Experience identifying and addressing client needs, actively participating in client discussions and meetings, managing engagements including preparing concise, accurate documents.
• Strong oral and written communications with excellent partnership and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in Workday Payroll, Time Tracking.
• Willingness to travel up to 10% in US and EMEA.
• Bachelor’s Degree or higher.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for configuration support and implementing part or all of the Workday payroll solution in accordance with an agreed Functional design.
• Responsible for supporting the Workday Payroll solution during Hypercare and post go-live of the Project.
• Responsible for working with the implementation partner and internal business partners on detailed functional design for payroll solution.
• Work on System Performance management, Planning and monitoring of maintenance strategies for the cloud solution.
• Providing educated inputs on lifecycle sourcing needs, including contract negotiation, training services, restructuring activities, and program planning.
• Improving process efficiencies, enhancing cost savings, minimizing operational risk exposure, controlling critical vendor relationships, and handling vital software assets.
• Recommend and implement testing plans (A/B) to understand drivers of response and value.
• Participate in meetings and build trust with internal business customers, understand business objectives and seeks alignment.
• Define and implement interfaces to upstream and downstream systems.
• Manage and understand functional architecture analysis, research, design and development of new functionality and integration with key applications and services.
• Monitor Risks / Issues and prepare appropriate mitigation plans.
• Ensure best practices are followed and required processes and specifications are documented.
• Support to sign-off/change management process on technical changes proposed to responsible systems.
• Design, develop, and support of technical integrations to both Workday Payroll and Benefits and Workday HCM according to KGIT standards.

Preferred Qualifications

• Serve as the senior Workday representative for product and solution issues on large scale, sophisticated deployments.
• Responsible for the high-level design and end-to-end solutions based upon product strategy and functionality and relevant risk mitigating strategies.
• Collaborate with Global payroll team and Workday product management in conversations to understand the strategic direction of Workday’s Global Payroll solutions.
• Identify design, deployment obstacles and opportunities to optimize current functionality and integrate with third party solutions such as UKG Workforce management.
• Strong track record of implementing operational improvements to support strategies, able to influence organizational change.
• Proven results in working within a high-performance work team and gaining credibility.
• Knowledgeable in current practices, trends, and information; stays on top of industry and market trends; is aware of how strategies and tactics work in delivering value.