Workday- Benefits

Talent Et Au Dela Management Consulting & Advisory; Pune District, Gurugram District, Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent Et Au Dela Management Consulting & Advisory seeks a Senior Manager/Associate Director (Workday - Benefits) to lead Benefits implementations for US & Canada clients from multiple delivery centers. The role is hybrid in Pune with three days in office, requiring 10+ years experience and Workday Benefits certification.

The candidate will guide workshops, coordinate cross-functional teams, and drive successful project delivery while mentoring others in a fast-paced consulting environment.

Qualifications

• Workday Benefits certification is required.
• Experience leading Benefits implementations for US & Canada.
• Strong client-facing consulting background.

Responsibilities

• Lead Benefits functional streams across multiple projects.
• Conduct client workshops to address queries and resolve issues.
• Design, configure, and maintain Workday Benefits for US/Canada.
• Support enrollment, ACA knowledge, and related contexts.
• Coordinate with delivery teams to meet milestones and timelines.
• Gather requirements, estimate effort, and define timelines.
• Support pre-sales activities and SOW development.
• Develop test scenarios and support end-to-end testing.
• Drive operational excellence and transformational projects.
• Mentor team members and manage stakeholder expectations.

Skills

Workday Benefits

Client engagement

Workshop facilitation

Project leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

US/Canada benefits knowledge

Education

BE/BTech/MCA/BSc.

Job description

Senior Manager/ Associate Director (Workday- Benefits)

Senior Manager: 10-12years

Associate Director: 12 -14 Years

We are seeking a talented individual to join our HRDT team, part of our clients People & Investment Consulting business. This role will be based in Bangalore/Gurgaon/Noida/Pune. This is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working at least three days a week in the office.

We will count on you to:

• Leading Benefits Functional stream across multiple projects simultaneously
• Independently conduct various workshop sessions (e.g., Deployment Readiness, Foundation Alignment/Discovery, Customer Confirmation Sessions) with clients, addressing customer queries and resolving issues promptly.
• Design, Configure, Customize & maintain Workday Benefits emphasizing on US & Canada specifically, to meet client needs
• Deep knowledge of Open Enrollment & ACA in US context; should have assisted the clients for the same
• Collaborate effectively as part of a team, ensuring coordination and timely delivery of project milestones with consultants across different functional areas.
• Identify scope, scope gaps & get them addressed; Recognize and engage the right stakeholders
• Gather and document client requirements, assess project complexity, estimate effort, prioritize capacity, and define development and analysis timelines.
• Support pre-sales activities, estimation, client presentations, SOW, and Sales-to-Service transitions.
• Identify test scenarios, develop test scripts, and provide support for Workday feature releases, Security, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) & support E2E testing coordinating across all modules
• Drive operational excellence and lead transformational projects with measurable, impactful results.
• Take responsibility for initiatives, ensuring results are delivered on time and meet quality standards.
• Mentor and guide team members, fostering their growth and development.
• Demonstrate flexibility to work across different time zones, particularly supporting US & Canada and European clients, and collaborate with teams across various delivery centers

Qualification Criteria

What you need to have:

• Should be Workday certified in Benefits
• B.E /B.Tech /MCA /BSc.
• Total 10+years and minimum 4-5 years experience working on Workday Implementations
• Demonstrated success in leading Benefits implementation projects for US & Canada
• Extensive experience working with clients as a Consultant to drive implementation projects.
• In-depth functional knowledge of how Benefits works together and affects other modules including but not limited to HCM, Absence, Payroll, Integrations (particularly in the US context)
• Working with cross-functional teams spread across different delivery centers
• Up to date on Workday new releases & their Roadmaps to better Solution & enhance End User experience.
• Ability to recommend and implement industry- or country-specific Workday best practices during implementation.
• Active participation in internal initiatives, supporting or leading Workday product teams, and contributing to the development of intellectual property solutions.
• Worked or Working with a Workday implementation partner & possess Benefits Core certification
• Develop and implement strategies for maximizing the use of the Workday to enhance business processes and achieve operational goals.
• Lead the planning & deployment of initial implementation, follow-on, upgrades, and optimization projects
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful project delivery.
• Manage a team of Benefits analysts & consultants, provide guidance, mentorship, and performance feedback to ensure team success.
• Investigate business and technical requirements for Benefits, collaborating with business analysts and architects to define needs and priorities
• Provide clients with an overview of Workday’s Benefits capabilities.
• Ability to provide workarounds & guide clients to the relevant community brainstorms.
• Design Workday solutions tailored to client needs.
• Assist clients in testing delivered reports, based on scenarios provided by the client team.
• Strategizing cutover plans, rollout activities for initial & cross-platform
• Hypercare, catch-up transactions support, rollout to production
• Take timely and appropriate actions to address stakeholder needs and expectations.
• Manage issue resolution, escalating as necessary.
• Communicate effectively with mid- and senior-level management.
• Leverage synergies between global information systems.

Additional Information

What makes you stand out?

• Candidates must possess full professional proficiency in both written and spoken English
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong communicator, in both verbal and written form, able to articulate concepts and ideas, break through barriers, engage people, and work effectively with others under pressure.
• Neutral toward technology, vendor, and product choices more interested in results than in personal preferences.
• Unflappable in the face of opposition to ideas

Why join our team:

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.
• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.
• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.