Workday Consultant - Absence & Time Tracking | Workday Advisory services - Pune - Multiple roles

Workday, Inc.; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday, Inc. in Pune seeks an experienced IT implementation professional to join the Success Plans team. You will apply your 8+ years of HR/Finance systems experience, including Workday, to help customers optimize deployments, configure solutions, and demonstrate value.

Responsibilities include guiding customers, delivering targeted consulting engagements, and maintaining Workday certifications while staying current with feature updates and industry best practices.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of IT implementation experience.
• 8+ years of experience with HR and/or Finance systems, including but not limited to Workday, PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle, and/or JD Edwards.
• 2+ years of software consulting experience.

Responsibilities

• Conducting research to understand customer questions and Workday concepts.
• Delivering small-scope consulting and configuration guidance to meet customer needs.
• Troubleshooting product configuration to align with business requirements.
• Communicating responses and value to customers clearly and effectively.
• Creating and delivering customer presentations on Workday features and use cases.

Skills

IT implementation

HR/Finance systems experience

Software consulting experience

English communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience

Workday Certification in HCM

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Workday

PeopleSoft

SAP

Oracle

JD Edwards

Job description

About the Company

Your work days are brighter here. We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

The Workday Success Plans Team are all about our customers and their post Go-Live journey - we create programs to help them drive business value from their Workday applications. The team is responsible for delivering a variety of programs and services to our customers ranging from feature demonstrations to full feature deployments. At Workday, we help the world’s largest organizations adapt to what’s next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud. We work hard, and we’re serious about what we do. But we like to have fun, too! We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and do good in the communities where we live and work.

About the Role

Would you enjoy learning new things in a fast paced environment? Do you have an appetite for variety and challenging business problems to solve? Are you a great communicator who can clearly articulate and demonstrate the value of Workday solutions to our customers? The Workday Success Plans team works directly with customers through targeted micro consulting engagements to help solve their business needs using the Workday application. Responsible for acting as a trusted Workday advisor, you will have the opportunity to assist customers with how-to questions, troubleshoot and guide customers through configuration, and provide feature demonstrations. As a Workday expert, customers will benefit from your knowledge as you share your experience, identify key considerations, and highlight standard methodologies.

Our team of professionals have a broad and deep understanding of Workday, and enjoy the reward of helping customers solve problems, learn about new features, and find greater value in their Workday investment. So if you are passionate about the value technology can bring to an organization, love learning and want to work directly with some of the greatest companies on the planet, bring your energy and teamwork to the Workday Success Plans team!

Primary Responsibilities

• Conducting research to ensure understanding of customer questions and related Workday concepts.
• Delivering small scope consulting in response to customer requests; providing configuration guidance, demonstrations, considerations, tips & tricks.
• Troubleshooting product configuration to resolve or provide optimal product configuration to meet customer business requirements.
• Clearly and effectively communicating responses and value to customers.
• Creating and delivering customer presentations on how to use Workday features to achieve business goals (Accelerator Webinars).
• Providing one-on-one consulting guidance to accelerate customer feature adoption (Feature Accelerator).
• Reviewing customer tenants to identify adoption opportunities (Feature Adoption Tenant Reviews).
• Completing and maintaining product expertise and Workday Certification(s) along with familiarity with Workday roadmap.
• Keeping up to date with industry practices and the ability to engage with our customers on those topics.
• Helping drive the creation of new programs to drive customer feature adoption.

Additional Customer Enablement Services

• Office Hours to conduct appointment-based consulting engagements providing guidance and product expertise to customers.
• Perform configuration and business requirements reviews with a detailed deliverable calling out opportunities for optimization.
• Provide one-on-one customer configuration designs.
• Deployments including full deployment of Workday features.
• Ability to travel up to 10%.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 8+ years of IT implementation experience
• 8+ years of experience with HR and/or Finance systems , including but not limited to Workday, PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle, and/or JD Edwards
• 2+ years of software consulting experience

Other Qualifications

• Workday Certification in HCM and at least one of the following is ideal: Compensation, Talent, Recruiting, Absence, Payroll
• Ability to gain a thorough understanding of Workday concepts as new features are released
• Ability to distill complex concepts into understandable presentations for our customers
• Ability to multitask and work on multiple engagements and deliverables simultaneously
• Strong critical thinking skills so as to understand complex, technical process issues and facilitate/influence decision making
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience required.
• Advanced degree preferred

Equal Opportunity and Diversity Statement

Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

We do not accept resumes from headhunters, placement agencies, or other suppliers that have not signed a formal agreement with us. Workday is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Workday are considered without regards to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Further, pursuant to applicable local ordinances, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Workday prohibits taking adverse action against any candidate or employee for reporting a possible violation of this policy, requesting one or more work accommodation, exercising a privacy right, or cooperating in an investigation in accordance with applicable law. Any employee who retaliates against a candidate or employee for doing so may be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment, to the fullest extent allowable under applicable law. If you require a reasonable accommodation, you may email [e-mail], as far in advance as possible.