Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Senior Workday Total Rewards Consultant with strong expertise in Workday Compensation, Workday Benefits, and Workday HCM to lead the design, implementation, configuration, optimization, and support of Workday Total Rewards solutions.
The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience with Workday Compensation and Benefits, multiple end-to-end Workday implementations, annual compensation cycles, benefits administration, reporting/analytics, integrations, testing, and Workday release management.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with Compensation, Benefits, HR, Payroll, and business stakeholders to design and optimize Total Rewards solutions.
- Configure, maintain, and enhance Workday Compensation and Benefits functionality.
- Support annual compensation planning, merit increases, bonus planning, promotions, and benefits open enrollment.
- Configure and maintain Workday business processes for Compensation and Benefits.
- Support global and multi-country compensation and benefits programs.
- Provide expertise in compensation strategy, pay equity, rewards governance, benchmarking, and compliance.
- Develop and maintain Workday reports, dashboards, and workforce analytics.
- Analyze compensation trends, workforce costs, benefits utilization, participation metrics, and planning outcomes.
- Support data conversion, validation, reconciliation, and data quality activities.
- Collaborate with integration teams supporting Payroll, benefits carriers, third-party vendors, and enterprise applications.
- Support Workday biannual releases, impact assessments, testing, and adoption of new functionality.
- Lead/support Unit Testing, SIT, UAT, and Regression Testing.
- Troubleshoot production issues and provide continuous improvement recommendations.
- Support Workday implementations, enhancements, and organizational transformation initiatives.
- Mentor junior consultants and collaborate with cross-functional project teams.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 5+ years of hands-on Workday Compensation and/or Benefits experience
- Workday Compensation Certification Required
- Workday Benefits Certification Required
- Workday HCM Certification Required
- Multiple end-to-end Workday implementations
- Strong hands-on Workday Compensation configuration
- Strong hands-on Workday Benefits configuration
- Workday business process configuration
- Compensation planning and annual merit cycles
- Bonus and incentive planning
- Benefits administration and Open Enrollment
- Global / multi-country Compensation & Benefits
- Pay equity and compensation benchmarking
- Total Rewards strategy and governance
- Workday reporting, dashboards, and analytics
- Workforce analytics and compensation reporting
- Workday Payroll and third-party integrations
- Benefits carrier integrations
- Data conversion, validation, reconciliation, and data quality
- Workday biannual release management
- Unit Testing, SIT, UAT, and Regression Testing
- Production support and troubleshooting
- Strong stakeholder management and consulting skills
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration
Preferred Skills
Workday: Compensation, Benefits, HCM, Business Processes, Reporting, Dashboards, Analytics, Payroll, Integrations, Release Management, Security
Total Rewards: Compensation Planning, Merit, Bonus, Incentives, Promotions, Pay Equity, Benchmarking, Rewards Governance, Benefits Administration, Open Enrollment
Implementation: End-to-End Implementation, Configuration, Data Conversion, Data Validation, Testing, SIT, UAT, Regression Testing, Production Support
Required Certifications
- Workday Compensation Certification
- Workday Benefits Certification
- Workday HCM Certification
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