Workday Consultant Job Description
Workday consultant
provides advice and support to HR, IT, Payroll and other functional areas on Workday related questions and issues.
Workday Consultant Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective workday consultant job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included workday consultant job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Web Services Integration Development - Investigate the business and technical requirements for the Workday web services
Performs Workday implementation tasks, Develops and conducts data integrity audits on PeopleSoft data for Workday implementation
Knowledge of localization and legislative requirements in various countries in Western Europe UK, Germany, France
Act as a point of contact for the project / client for delivery of Workday Integrations
Plan, lead and execute Workday implementations including leading global project teams
Workday report development, testing and validation
Design and implement requirements in the Workday HCM Financials solution
Participate in Global Workday Deployments
Investigate the business and technical requirements for the Workday solution
Application Testing – Must be able to assist clients with the testing of the Workday solution and the corresponding integrations
Workday Consultant Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Workday Consultant
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: HCM, CPP, PM, FPC, KPMG, ITIL
Education for Workday Consultant
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the workday consultant job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Education, Business, Software Engineering, Engineering, Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Technical, Computer
Skills for Workday Consultant
Desired skills for workday consultant include:
HR
Web Services
XML Schema and XPATH
Benefits and Payroll system data structures
HR disciplines
HR systems and functions
Workday
France
Germany
Localization and legislative requirements in various countries in Western Europe UK
Desired experience for workday consultant includes:
Develops working relationships with other members of project team and management external clients
Tactical execution of work plans as directed by the project team for region/vendor population
At least 5 years experience in Workday intergration
One to two years of additional relevant experience in technical specialty areas
Hands-on training and experience in a cutting edge cloud technology
Client interaction with challenging responsibilities
Workday Consultant Examples
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Workday Consultant Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of workday consultant. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for workday consultant
- Integration Requirements Definition - Investigate the business and technical requirements for the Workday solution
- Integration Requirements, Design - Investigate the business and technical requirements for the Workday solution
- Enter exceptions for new hires, terminations, overtime, PTO, and follow up with HR or staff as necessary
- Design, develop and test integrations between Workday HCM and Gr8 People
- Design and implement requirements in the Workday HCM solution, building consensus around business processes and design
- Collaboration with smart people in a dynamic team environment
- Mentorship and ongoing learning and development opportunities
- An accelerated path to full-time entry-level consultant opportunities
- Work in a team environment that includes client interactions, work stream management, and cross-team collaboration
- Analyze business requirements to determine integration solutions across various types of integrations
Qualifications for workday consultant
- At least 3 years of experience deploying Financial, Procurement, or other related ERP solutions (SAP, Oracle, Peoplesoft)
- At least 2 years experience deploying recruiting solutions, such as Taleo, SuccessFactors, NEOGOV, Brass Ring, PeopleClick (PeopleFluent)
- At least 5 years experience in Deploying Recruiting solutions, such as Taleo, SuccessFactors, NEOGOV, Brass Ring, PeopleClick (PeopleFluent)
- Previous consulting experience with a consulting/software company strongly preferred
- XML, XSLT experience required
- EDI, Web Services, Java, JSON, BIRT, .Net or other integration technologies preferred
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Workday Consultant Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a workday consultant. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for workday consultant
- Maintains the strategic roadmap for Workday and ensures demand is managed appropriately based on defined service level goals for operational support
- Acts as a liaison between the internal business partners and external vendors to support the Workday post-implementation and ongoing administration
- Responsible for project and release management for Workday functionality and implementations including tenant management
- Supports the business on all Workday escalations, change management and continuous process
- Leads and manages the functional process/ design
- Development of clients Global HCM System and talent + performance business process
- Supports release management, reviews release summary and releases readiness documents from system vendors
- Identifies enhancements relevant to the HCM system and impacts to downstream systems
- Advise clients on industry standards for financials in order to provide suggestions to achieve clean configuration and streamlined processes
- Leverage prior financials-related Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) experience
Qualifications for workday consultant
- 1+ years Human Resource, Payroll or Financial software application experience required
- 2+ Years of Workday Integration Implementation experience preferred, but not required
- 4+ deployments of Workday
- Experience in guiding and designing Workday
- Broad-based knowledge of HCM, with areas of expertise in Absence, Time-Tracking, Benefits
- Experience defining HCM business and systems strategy, developing system requirements, designing and prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures and implementing practical business solutions under multiple deadlines
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Workday Consultant Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of workday consultant. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for workday consultant
- Lead the design, development and implementation of Workday solutions to meet the client's needs (application lead)
- Advise clients on industry standards for Workday Financials in order to provide suggestions to achieve clean configuration and streamlined processes
- Leverage prior Workday Financial related Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) experience
- Resolve Workday tickets
- Develop and deploy Workday enhancements
- Lead, facilitate and drive large, highly complex and/or cross-functional requirement elicitation and validation sessions by working with multiple business areas and IT partners to ensure a complete, correct, prioritized, unambiguous, verifiable and comprehensive collection of requirements
- Determine appropriate requirement elicitation technique(s)
- Manage and/or lead testing efforts ensuring that comprehensive test plans and test cases are developed, that automated testing is leveraged and ensure that requirements trace to tests
- Ensure that test plans, test cases and testing results are analyzed, defects tracked, resolved, and documented
- Ensure that basic and advanced analysis models are used to analyze requirements
Qualifications for workday consultant
- Experience designing and implementing technology-enabled HCM business solutions for clients
- 1 end-to-end Workday delivered projects
- Complex project delivery and transformation for at least 1 global implementation
- Workday Integrations certification (preferred)
- Master or Bachelor Degree (preferred Human Resources or Information Technology)
- 5-10 years’ experience in HR system implementation and/or process modelling
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Workday Consultant Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a workday consultant. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for workday consultant
- Design and implement requirements in the Workday Learning solution
- Participate in Workday Learning Strategy/Transformation working sessions with clients to understand and set direction
- Set reporting strategy, including touchpoints to institutional reporting, data warehouse and Workday reporting and standards for report development and use at the University
- Develop moderate to complex prototypes to help visually illustrate requirements
- Identify, analyze and drive resolution of large, complex problems while partnering with project management team to influence final solutions
- Pull together data from multiple disparate sources, analyze
- Think beyond the current project and envision how the solution being developed could be leveraged for future endeavors
- Own and guide the process of effectively translating complex business, system or non-functional requirements into clear, concise, traceable functional requirements and documenting them in a comprehensive repository within the business requirements document/functional specification document
- Manage, lead, and participate in discussions and documents meetings
- Use established cooperative, productive working relationships across different business functional areas and IT to influence, negotiate and recognize/resolve potential conflict/challenging situations in advance
Qualifications for workday consultant
- Should be passionate consultant who help our clients migrate to Workday
- Experience as a technical consultant in of following skills
- Located and able to work in France and able to travel in up to 40-60%
- Manage product lifecycle for assigned HR tools
- Five + years of progressive experience in the Workday configuration field or an acceptable equivalent combination of education related training and experience
- Experience providing technology solutions to global HR organizations
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Workday Consultant Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of workday consultant. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for workday consultant
- Use Workday to build reports such as custom invoices, payslips, bank checks, merit statements, In Workday Studio
- Preferred candidates will have current certifications in Workday HCM and/or FIN and experience with BIRT reports in Workday but will also consider candidates that have this experience but with no certification
- Preferred candidates will have current certifications in Workday Payroll with two or more years Workday Payroll implementation experience
- Candidates with deep experience in Workday Compensation and willing to learn BIRT will also be considered
- Design, Build, Test, and Deploy Workday Integration solutions
- Conduct working sessions with clients to gather, understand, and analyze their Payroll business requirements and incorporate these into Workday
- Optimize existing Workday Payroll implementations
- Candidates with experience in other Workday modules such as Absence & Time or Benefits is considered a plus
- Establish project teams working with business/IT partners to identify critical members in order to accomplish work
- Organize efficiently, with appropriate sense of urgency to meet deliverables on time
Qualifications for workday consultant
- Ability to develop cost/benefit analysis for identifying strategic recommendations
- In depth knowledge of the Workday business object model and building/maintaining calculated fields
- Experienced with Workday domain security and able to troubleshoot/enable/control report access for select populations
- Strong collaboration with all levels and geographies of organization, both technology and non-technical
- Self-motivated with ability to work with no supervision or remote
- A minimum of three years of enterprise resource planning (ERP), HCM implementation and upgrade experience