Senior Workday Time and Absence Management Consultant

Barracuda Networks Inc.; Reading; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading cybersecurity company in the UK is seeking a Workday Expert focused on Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking to lead deployments across EMEA. The role involves configuring and implementing Workday PATT solutions, collaborating with HR, and ensuring compliance with local regulations. The ideal candidate holds over 5 years of experience with Workday Time & Attendance, excels in stakeholder management, and has a strong documentation background. This is a contractual position suitable for proactive professionals.

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on experience configuring Workday Time & Attendance.
• Experience with payroll integration outputs.
• Proficiency with Workday Business Process configuration.

Responsibilities

• Lead configuration and deployment of Workday Payroll and Time Tracking.
• Document client requirements and design solutions.
• Collaborate with data conversion teams to migrate legacy data.

Skills

Workday configuration

Stakeholder management

Documentation

Integration testing

Job description

Come join our passionate team! Barracuda is a leading cybersecurity company providing complete protection against complex threats. Our platform protects email, data, applications, and networks with innovative solutions, and a managed XDR service, to strengthen cyber resilience. Hundreds of thousands of IT professionals and managed service providers worldwide trust us to protect and support them with solutions that are easy to buy, deploy, and use.

Barracuda Networks is proud to be an employer that complies with all applicable national, state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity regardless of race, gender, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability.

Envision yourself at Barracuda

We are seeking a Workday Expert focused on Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking (PATT) to lead cross‑border deployments in the US and Europe. The ideal candidate will design, configure, prototype, test, and implement Workday PATT solutions, manage data conversion and integrations, ensure compliance with local regulations, and drive user adoption. This is a contract/temporary role requiring strong stakeholder management and clear, proactive communication.

You’ll partner closely with HR, Payroll, and local country HR to ensure Workday configurations are robust, scalable, and audit‑ready.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end‑to‑end configuration and deployment of Workday Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking for EMEA
• Gather and document client requirements; design solutions; develop prototypes; drive testing and cutover; provide knowledge transfer to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with data conversion teams to migrate legacy data into Workday with high data quality.
• Configure and test integrations between Workday and third‑party systems (payroll vendors, benefits providers, etc).
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex configuration issues; deliver scalable, repeatable solutions.
• Facilitate client adoption of best practices; deliver user training and change management activities.
• Maintain client satisfaction; provide regular status updates to PMs; identify risks and improvement opportunities.
• Ensure compliance with local payroll, tax, leave regulations, and privacy requirements (e.g., GDPR); stay current with Workday releases and certifications.
• Propose and implement innovative approaches to deploy Workday more efficiently.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years hands‑on experience configuring Workday Time & Attendance with previous experience for Austria specifically.
• Experience with payroll integration outputs (time calculation results, absence balances, earnings/premiums).
• Proficiency with Workday Business Process configuration, conditional rules, calculation tags, and security for Time/Absence.
• Excellent stakeholder management; ability to work across HR, Payroll, and country HR partners.
• Strong documentation, testing, and change control discipline.

Be a part of the HRIS team that brings a wealth of knowledge and takes a collaborative approach. Our philosophy centers on building strong relationships while guiding functional owners through the process of developing their requirements and refining them to align with system capabilities.