Lead Workday HRIS Consultant

Overview

In this role, you lead Workday HRIS initiatives within a prominent financial services organization. You will act as the functional SME, delivering hands-on configuration, testing, and optimization across Workday modules and HR technology, while guiding a team and partnering with payroll, benefits, and talent teams. You will oversee releases, testing, and continuous improvement, driving production readiness and best practices. This is an opportunity to shape Workday solutions and HR technology strategy in a cross-functional setting.

Responsibilities

• Act as functional lead and subject matter expert for Workday and HR technology initiatives
• Provide hands-on configuration, testing, troubleshooting across multiple Workday modules
• Lead enhancements, releases, testing, and continuous improvement efforts
• Mentor HRIS analysts and guide solution design and issue resolution
• Partner with Payroll, Compensation, Benefits, HR, and Talent teams to deliver Workday solutions
• Collaborate with technical teams on requirements, integrations, testing, and deployments
• Support Workday releases, feature adoption, and production readiness
• Perform impact assessments, root cause analysis, and configuration reviews
• Develop documentation, testing materials, and knowledge-sharing resources
• Recommend Workday best practices and opportunities for optimization

Key requirements

• 7+ years of HRIS experience with strong Workday expertise
• Experience supporting multiple Workday functional areas (Compensation, Benefits, Time Tracking, Absence, Security, Payroll)
• Strong understanding of Workday configuration, business processes, reporting, security, and testing methodologies
• Experience building reports, dashboards, calculated fields, EIBs, and supporting data initiatives
• Demonstrated ability to partner across business and technical teams
• Experience coaching and developing HRIS analysts
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

• strong communication skills
• analytical thinking
• mentoring and coaching
• Workday HRIS expertise
• Workday modules (Compensation, Benefits, Time Tracking, Absence, Security, Payroll)
• Workday reporting, dashboards, calculated fields

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