Senior Workday Functional Consultant - Payroll & Absence

Workday; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 117,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work model

Stock grants

Job summary

Workday is seeking a Senior Functional Consultant to help customers overcome HR technology challenges and maximize value from Workday’s Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking solutions. You will deliver customer-focused services, translate requirements into configurations, and support multiple engagements with a focus on long-term success.

The role emphasizes collaboration with Engagement Managers, feature adoption, and health checks across tenants, with opportunities to travel up to 10%.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Human Capital Management software and consulting experience on medium or large enterprise HRIS projects, or applicable practitioner deployment experience
• 5+ years of experience with the following product areas: Payroll, Absence, Time Tracking
• 3+ years of Workday Consulting experience or experience as a Workday SME

Responsibilities

• Confidently and consistently provide excellent customer service
• Engage customers to quickly understand business requirements
• Share their broad experience with industry practices
• Adapt and succeed independently in challenging situations
• Develop and demonstrate system configuration solutions, articulating product capabilities, plus the benefits and risks of design decisions
• Support multiple customers concurrently on short duration projects
• Enjoy the reward of helping customers to be more self-sufficient, to stabilize and optimize their Workday applications and to learn about new features.

Skills

Payroll

Absence management

Time tracking

Workday consulting

Education

Bachelor’s degree or related experience

Job description

Workday is seeking a Senior Functional Consultant to help customers overcome HR technology challenges and maximize value from Workday’s Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking solutions. You will deliver customer-focused services, translate requirements into configurations, and support multiple engagements with a focus on long-term success.

The role emphasizes collaboration with Engagement Managers, feature adoption, and health checks across tenants, with opportunities to travel up to 10%.