Workday Payroll Senior Principal Consultant

Overview

In this role you guide the design, delivery, and success of Workday Payroll implementations for clients, acting as a trusted advisor to project teams. You combine deep payroll expertise with delivery leadership, pre-sales support, and people development to drive transformation. You lead complex solution discussions, oversee configurations and testing, and mentor consultants while contributing to practice growth. You work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver integrated payroll solutions and stay current on product trends. This position offers remote work in the UK and opportunities to shape the Workday payroll practice.

Pay / Benefits

• remote-friendly
• learning opportunities
• global opportunities
• affinity groups
• entrepreneurial environment
• community outreach

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior Workday Payroll subject matter expert guiding strategy, operations, and best practices
• Lead client workshops, discovery sessions, and design discussions to define scalable payroll solutions
• Own solution design and oversight across configuration, testing, deployment, and post-go-live activities
• Act as the functional lead for medium to large Workday Payroll implementations, managing decisions, risks and dependencies
• Advise on payroll processes, compliance, controls, and transformation initiatives
• Partner with HCM, Benefits, Time Tracking, Absence, Integrations, Reporting, Security, Change Management, and Project Management teams
• Collaborate with integration teams to support payroll provider and third-party interfaces
• Support testing, parallel runs, cutover, deployment, and hypercare throughout the project lifecycle
• Mentor and coach consultants, providing quality reviews and functional leadership
• Support business development activities including estimations, proposals, demonstrations, and presentations
• Contribute to practice development through methodology improvements, training, asset creation, and knowledge sharing
• Maintain expertise in Workday Payroll functionality, legislative updates, industry trends, and product innovations

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Active Workday Payroll Certification preferred
• 5+ years of Workday implementation experience with multiple end-to-end deployments
• Proven experience leading Workday Payroll workstreams on medium to large implementations
• Deep functional expertise in payroll processes, operations, compliance, earnings and deductions, payroll accounting, and payroll integrations
• Experience gathering requirements, facilitating workshops, solution design, configuration, testing, parallel runs, and deployment
• Experience supporting pre-sales activities including estimations, proposals, and solution presentations
• Strong leadership, mentoring, stakeholder management, and consulting skills
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with executive-level stakeholders
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced consulting environment
• Eligible for UK clearance and legally entitled to work in the UK
• Minimal travel required but willing to travel on-site as needed

• leadership
• stakeholder management
• communication
• Workday Payroll
• payroll processes and compliance
• earnings and deductions

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