Payroll Functional Consultant

We are looking for a Payroll Functional Consultant to join our Professional Services team. As a Payroll Functional Consultant, you will help customers successfully deploy and adopt Workday in the area of Payroll. You will work across the full project lifecycle: understanding customer policies and agreements, designing future-state processes, configuring Workday, running workshops, testing solutions, and supporting customers through go-live and stabilization.

You will collaborate closely with project managers, other functional and technical consultants, and customer stakeholders. Depending on your level (P3 or P4), you will own increasingly complex workstreams, customer conversations, and solution decisions, while contributing to the continuous improvement of our Payroll assets, templates, and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with project managers, functional and technical consultants, and customer stakeholders
• Design future-state processes and configure Workday
• Run workshops, test solutions, and support customers through go-live and stabilization
• Own workstreams, customer conversations, and solution decisions
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of Payroll assets, templates, and best practices

Requirements

• Typically 3-6 years of professional experience, with at least 2-3 years in consulting or leading system/process implementations in Payroll (P3)
• Typically 6+ years of professional experience, with significant time in consulting and leading complex implementations in Payroll (P4)
• Hands-on experience configuring and delivering solutions in Workday or a comparable workforce/payroll application
• Experience owning a functional workstream or module within a payroll project

Nice to Have

• Direct experience with Workday Payroll including country-specific variants
• Certifications or formal training in Workday Payroll
• Familiarity with labor law, leave regulations, or collective agreements in at least one country
• Experience in industries with complex workforce patterns
• Experience in global projects (multi-country payroll/time implementations)
• Additional languages beyond English

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work with a leading AI platform
• Collaborative and dynamic work environment
• Flexible work arrangements