Title: Senior Workday Payroll Consultant
Location: Tulsa,OK(onsite from Day 1)
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Serve as a senior techno-functional resource supporting the Payroll team and production payroll cycles.
• Configure and maintain Workday Payroll, including earnings, deductions, payroll calculations, tax-related configuration, payroll inputs, eligibility rules and supporting business processes.
• Translate payroll operational, statutory and regulatory requirements into appropriate Workday configuration.
• Assess payroll-impacting regulatory changes and configure, test and deploy required Workday changes.
• Support payroll teams in diagnosing calculation errors, configuration issues and payroll exceptions.
• Perform root-cause analysis of complex payroll issues and coordinate resolution across Payroll, HRIS, Workday and third-party providers.
• Support Workday releases, regression testing and configuration changes affecting payroll.
Country payroll enablement
• Support the addition and configuration of new countries/payroll populations within the organization's Workday and payroll-provider landscape.
• Analyze country-specific payroll requirements and determine impacts to Workday configuration and downstream payroll processing.
• Configure payroll-related business processes, data requirements, mappings and supporting rules.
• Coordinate testing, validation and production readiness with Payroll, HR, Tax, Finance and payroll providers.
Tax and regulatory configuration
• Maintain strong understanding of payroll taxation, statutory deductions and regulatory requirements relevant to supported countries.
• Evaluate legislative changes and translate them into Workday Payroll configuration and testing requirements.
• Experience responding to significant U.S. payroll/tax legislative change is highly desirable. For example, experience analyzing and implementing payroll impacts arising from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) or comparable major tax/regulatory changes would be particularly valuable.
• Partner with Payroll/Tax specialists to validate calculations and ensure configuration accurately reflects approved requirements.
ADP & Payroll Integration Responsibilities
• Provide functional and techno-functional ownership of integrations between Workday and ADP payroll services.
• Strong experience with PECI (Payroll Effective Change Interface) and other Workday payroll integration frameworks.
• Experience supporting ADP SmartConnect or comparable Workday-to-payroll-provider integrations is highly desirable.
• Understand integration configuration, schedules, data mappings, eligibility/data selection, validation and error handling.
• Troubleshoot failed or incorrect payroll interface results and determine whether issues originate in:
o Workday configuration or worker data
o Payroll configuration
o PECI/change detection
o Connector configuration or mapping
o ADP/provider processing
o Integration execution
• Work effectively with Workday integration developers or ADP technical resources when technical development is required.
• Integration development is not a primary responsibility. The emphasis is on configuration, functional understanding, monitoring, testing and troubleshooting existing integrations.
Secondary Responsibilities: Time & Attendance / UKG WFM
• Strong understanding of Time & Attendance processes, including time capture, schedules, overtime, premiums, absence/time-off interaction, approvals and payroll interfaces.
• Support configuration and troubleshooting of time-related processes affecting payroll.
• Experience with UKG Workforce Management (UKG WFM) is strongly preferred.
• Ideally able to:
o Configure UKG WFM.
o Support timekeeping and scheduling rules.
o Develop or support operational reporting.
o Troubleshoot integrations between UKG WFM, Workday and payroll.
o Analyze discrepancies between time data and resulting payroll calculations.
• Understand the end-to-end flow from time capture → Workday/HR data → payroll calculation → payroll provider → employee payment.
Required Experience
• 6–10+ years of HR/payroll systems experience.
• 4–6+ years of hands-on Workday experience, with significant depth in Workday Payroll.
• Multiple years of production support and configuration experience rather than implementation-only experience.
• Demonstrated experience supporting payroll operations and resolving production payroll issues.
• Hands-on experience configuring Workday Payroll and implementing payroll-related regulatory or tax changes.
• Experience supporting Workday-to-ADP or comparable third-party payroll integrations.
• Strong working knowledge of PECI and Workday payroll integration concepts.
• Experience with multi-country or global payroll environments strongly preferred.
• Experience enabling new payroll countries or populations strongly preferred.
• UKG WFM experience preferred
Core Technical / Functional Skills
Must Have
1. Workday Payroll configuration
2. Payroll processing and operations knowledge
3. Payroll tax and regulatory configuration
4. Workday Payroll production troubleshooting
5. Workday-to-ADP integration knowledge
6. PECI configuration/support/troubleshooting
7. Payroll connector configuration and troubleshooting
8. New-country/payroll-population enablement
9. Workday reporting and data analysis
10. Payroll testing and regression testing
Strongly Preferred
1. ADP SmartConnect
2. Multi-country/global payroll
3. UKG WFM
4. Time & Attendance configuration
5. UKG reporting and integration troubleshooting
6. Major legislative/tax change implementation experience
Nice to Have
• Workday certifications in Payroll and/or related HCM areas
• Workday Absence/Time Tracking knowledge
• Experience working in an AMS or managed-services environment
• Experience supporting Workday release management
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