Workday Payroll Consultant

The Workday Payroll Senior Principal Consultant is a senior functional leader responsible for driving the design, delivery, and overall success of Workday Payroll implementations. Acting as a trusted advisor to clients and project teams, this individual provides strategic guidance on payroll transformation, payroll operations, and Workday leading practices while ensuring solutions align with business objectives.

The Senior Principal Consultant combines deep Workday Payroll expertise with delivery leadership, pre-sales support, and people development responsibilities. They lead complex solution discussions, guide implementation teams, support business development activities, and play a key role in growing the Workday practice through mentoring and knowledge sharing.

• Serve as a senior Workday Payroll subject matter expert, providing guidance on payroll strategy, operations, and Workday best practices.
• Lead client workshops, discovery sessions, and design discussions to define scalable Workday Payroll solutions aligned to business requirements.
• Own solution design and provide oversight across configuration, testing, deployment, and post-go-live transition activities.
• Act as the functional lead for medium to large Workday Payroll implementations, managing key solution decisions, risks, and dependencies.
• Advise clients on payroll processes, compliance requirements, controls, and payroll transformation initiatives.
• Partner with HCM, Benefits, Time Tracking, Absence, Integrations, Reporting, Security, Change Management, and Project Management teams to deliver integrated solutions.
• Work closely with integration teams to support interfaces with payroll providers, benefits vendors, and third-party applications.
• Support testing, payroll parallel runs, cutover, deployment, and hypercare activities throughout the project lifecycle.
• Mentor and coach consultants and senior consultants, providing quality reviews and functional leadership.
• Support business development activities including solutioning, estimations, proposals, demonstrations, and customer presentations.
• Contribute to practice development through methodology improvements, internal training, asset creation, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
• Maintain expertise in Workday Payroll functionality, legislative updates, industry trends, and product innovations.

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