Lead Consultant, Workday Advanced Compensation

Mercer; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercer is seeking a Lead Consultant, Workday Advanced Compensation to join our Digital Transformation team. This role targets an experienced Workday implementation consultant who can lead complex compensation workstreams and guide clients with confidence.

You will combine hands-on delivery leadership with solution design, stakeholder management, and practice enablement across Workday HCM, Payroll, and Finance to deliver scalable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Active Workday Core Compensation and Advanced Compensation certifications.
• 5+ years as a certified Workday consultant.
• 3+ years leading Workday Advanced Compensation implementations.
• Strong understanding of Workday architecture, security, and best practices.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to engage clients and drive delivery across workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Workday Advanced Compensation workstream for implementations.
• Gather requirements and design scalable compensation solutions.
• Serve as SME on Advanced Compensation configurations and issues.
• Maintain forecasts, delivery plans, timelines, and risk communication.
• Collaborate with other leads to ensure end-to-end client experience.
• Support demos, solution architecture discussions, and scoping.
• Develop enablement content and best-practice materials for the team.

Skills

Workday

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Delivery excellence

Communication

Education

Workday Core Compensation Certification

Workday Advanced Compensation Certification

Tools

Workday

Job description

About The Role

Mercer is hiring a

Location

United States or Canada

About The Role

Mercer is hiring a Lead Consultant, Workday Advanced Compensation to join our Digital Transformation team. This role is ideal for an experienced Workday implementation consultant who can lead complex compensation workstreams, advise clients with confidence, and help deliver thoughtful, scalable solutions. As part of Mercer, a Marsh business and one of the world's leading HR consulting firms, our Digital Transformation practice is a certified Workday implementation and innovation partner. We work with clients across Workday HCM, Payroll, Finance, data conversion, strategic transformation, and change management to drive real business transformation. In this role, you will combine hands‑on delivery leadership with solution design, stakeholder management, and practice enablement.

What You'll Do

• Lead the delivery of the Workday Advanced Compensation workstream for implementation and optimization engagements
• Partner with clients and internal teams to gather requirements and design effective, scalable solutions
• Act as a subject matter expert on complex Advanced Compensation configurations, decisions, and client issues
• Maintain accurate forecasts, delivery plans, timelines, and risk communication for your workstream
• Collaborate with other functional leads to ensure a seamless end-to-end client experience
• Support demos, solution architecture discussions, client presentations, and scoping activities
• Build and contribute thought leadership, enablement content, and best practice materials for the broader team

What We're Looking For

• Active Workday certifications in both Core Compensation and Advanced Compensation
• 5+ years of experience as a certified Workday consultant
• 3+ years of experience leading Workday Advanced Compensation implementations as a lead consultant or subject matter expert
• Strong understanding of Workday architecture, security, and best practices
• Proven ability to navigate client-facing situations and drive workstream delivery successfully
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have

• Additional Workday certifications such as Recruiting, Talent and Performance, or Learning
• Experience mentoring, coaching, or enabling other consultants
• Bilingual proficiency in Spanish or another language

Why join Mercer Digital Transformation

• Be part of a respected Workday implementation and innovation partner
• Work on interesting client engagements where your expertise will directly shape outcomes
• Build your career in a collaborative environment with strong leadership support
• Contribute to a growing practice that values knowledge sharing, innovation, and impact

Work authorization

This role is not eligible for employer-sponsored work authorization now or in the future. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada, as applicable, without current or future sponsorship.

Interview process

• Recruiter screening conversation
• Technical interview with the relevant Workday team
• Final conversation focused on culture, work style, and mutual fit

Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) is a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marsh.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, veteran status (including protected veterans), or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by contacting [e-mail].

Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one "anchor day" per week on which their full team will be together in person.