Job Title: Workday Consultant
Pay Rate: $57-76/hour
This role leads the day-to-day operations of HR systems—primarily Workday (90% of operations)—with a strong focus on compensation and benefits. The consultant will manage the annual bonus and merit cycle, including testing, execution, and enhancements, while also supporting broader business needs such as acquisitions and integrations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead HR systems operations, focusing on Workday.
- Act as Tier 3 support for Workday cases, especially during the annual comp cycle.
- Manage testing (3 months) and execution (2 months) phases of bonus and merit processes.
- Oversee enhancements, operations, and data fixes.
- Support ongoing projects including acquisitions and related Workday comp configurations.
- Translate business requirements into Workday configurations.
- Collaborate with IT on vendor-specific integrations.
- Provide consulting services to create or fix Workday processes.
Qualifications:
- Experience in HR and Compensation, especially annual comp cycles.
- Hands-on Workday Compensation and Advanced Compensation experience.
- Strong configuration skills including eligibility rules.
- Experience testing Workday configurations.
- Consulting ability to turn requirements into technical solutions.
- Enterprise experience (500+ employees).
- Understanding of Workday architecture and integrations.
Top 3 Skills:
- Workday Compensation and Advanced Compensation
- Consulting and hands-on configuration
- Testing Workday configurations
Other Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree + 7 years’ experience in HR, IT or Cloud Based Solutions OR Technical Certification and/or College Courses + 9 years’ experience in HR, IT or Cloud Based Solutions OR 11 years’ experience in HR, IT or Cloud Based Solutions
• 4 years HRMS SaaS and/or Cloud Based experience
• Workday Certification or equivalent experience in Compensation /Advanced Compensation
• Project Management experience on highly complex projects
• Strong prioritization, coordination, and delegation skills
• Lead customer teams independently
• Minimal oversight from management
• Possess ability to manage workload, manage multiple priorities, and manage conflicts with customers/employees/managers and execute deliverables as required
• Experience in gathering business requirements and translating into technical documents
• Problem solving /analytical thinking