Workday Absence & Time Tracking Senior Principal Consultant

Overview

As a Senior Principal Consultant, you will lead Workday Absence and Time Tracking implementations, acting as a trusted advisor to clients and project teams. You will guide solution design, delivery, and post‑go‑live support, ensuring alignment with business objectives and Workday best practices. You will mentor teams, support business development, and help grow the Workday practice through knowledge sharing. You will work cross‑functionally to deliver integrated, scalable solutions that drive workforce optimization and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Serve as senior Workday Absence and Time Tracking SME, guiding workforce management processes and best practices
• Lead client workshops, discovery sessions, and design discussions to define scalable solutions
• Own solution design and oversee configuration, testing, deployment, and post-go-live transition
• Act as functional lead for medium to large implementations, managing key decisions, risks, and dependencies
• Advise on absence management, leave administration, time entry, scheduling, compliance, and workforce optimization strategies
• Partner with HCM, Payroll, Benefits, Integrations, Reporting, Security, Change Management, and PM teams to deliver integrated solutions
• Support testing, data conversion, cutover, deployment, and hypercare activities
• Mentor and coach consultants, providing quality reviews and functional leadership
• Support business development activities including estimations, proposals, demonstrations, and customer presentations
• Contribute to practice development through methodology improvements, asset creation, and knowledge sharing
• Maintain expertise in Workday Absence, Time Tracking, and Scheduling functionality
• Location: UK, remote with on-site travel as needed

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Active Workday Absence and/or Time Tracking Certification
• 5+ years of Workday implementation experience with multiple end-to-end deployments
• Proven experience leading Workday Absence and Time Tracking workstreams on medium to large implementations
• Deep functional expertise in absence management, leave administration, time tracking, scheduling, workforce compliance, and payroll-related processes
• Experience gathering requirements, facilitating workshops, solution design, configuration, testing, 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 stakeholders
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced consulting environment
• Eligible for UK Security Clearance and UK residency requirements
• Willingness to travel on-site as needed

• leadership
• mentoring
• stakeholder management
• Workday Absence
• Workday Time Tracking
• Scheduling functionality

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