Sr HCM Functional Consultant - Payroll, Absence & Time Tracking

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About the Team

Workday’s Consulting teams are driven by a passion for our products and the success of our customers in implementing our outstanding cloud solutions. We’re a diverse group of people, with an invaluable mix of experience and backgrounds, located across multiple locations within the region. We are often remote from one another but that doesn’t stop our sense of collaboration, supportiveness, and fun.
We offer flexible work schedules, empower you to follow your desired career path & achieve professional and personal goals, encourage work-life balance and wellbeing, and are proud to champion equal opportunities for everyone.

About the Role

We are looking for a hardworking, innovative and collaborative functional consultant to join our team. In this role you will play a key part in ensuring the successful implementation of Workday solutions with customers through product and implementation expertise.  The ideal candidate for this position should have extensive experience implementing Australian HR & Payroll systems, requirements gathering, configuration, data conversion, and testing. You should be adaptable, curious, detail oriented, self-motivated, proactive and able to successfully partner with customers and your project team. Be ready to be challenged and have fun!

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Become an expert across multiple workday products with a focus on HCM and Payroll
• Perform the following on a client engagement: understand client business requirements, configure the Workday solution, demonstrate the configurations through the building of prototype configuration, assist the client in testing the Workday solution.
• Work with the client to support translate their requirements and legacy data into the Workday solution.
• Assist the Integration Consulting team in helping to configure and test integrations between Workday and 3rd party/custom solutions.
• Understand Workday’s Implementation Methodology and use it on all client engagements.
• Ensure the client takes advantage of Workday's proven solutions.
• Mentor and share product knowledge with other consultants. Work with other consultants and product experts to develop solutions to address common customer challenges and streamline deployment processes.
• Help deliver successful project outcomes and lasting client relationships.
• Participate in regular training to expand product knowledge with each new Workday release and other job critical skills relevant to the role

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of functional experience with HR & Payroll software solutions or systems.
• Recent Australian Industry HR & Payroll experience
• Previous consulting experience either as a consultant with a professional services company or an internal consultant.
• Experience implementing or working with Workday, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, ADP or similar applications.
• The successful candidate’s ability to acquire, hold and maintain an Australian Government security clearance to the required level is a consideration

Other Qualifications

• Passion for customer service.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Business analysis and requirements gathering abilities.
• Ability to learn technology quickly through instruction and self-training.
• Experience deploying multiple projects simultaneously a plus.
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time

Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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