Senior Workday Implementation Specialist

Logoslabs; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Budget for social events or co-working spaces

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Flexible vacation accrual

Stock options or equity grants

Professional development stipend

Support for remote work setup

Unlimited paid sick leave

Comprehensive parental leave policy

Life and disability insurance

Job summary

Remote is looking for a Senior Workday Implementation Specialist to join our Global Payroll Implementation team. You will handle end-to-end payroll integrations for clients, ensuring compliance and data accuracy as you integrate new customers into our Remote Global Payroll platform leveraging Workday.

Key qualifications include proven experience with Workday HCM, strong project management skills, and fluency in English. This position is fully remote, and we encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds.

Qualifications

• Experience with Workday HCM implementation or integration in a global payroll context.
• Understanding of global payroll operations and compliance.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, international environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Workday payroll integrations.
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customers.
• Analyze customers’ Workday environments for integration.

Skills

Proven experience implementing Workday HCM

Strong understanding of Workday modules

Excellent data management skills

Strong customer onboarding and project management experience

Analytical and problem-solving abilities

Fluent in English

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Google Sheets

Excel

Monday.com

Notion

Slack

Salesforce

Job description

Senior Workday Implementation Specialist

Remote-EMEA

About Remote

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly and with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and a future‑focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from six different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.

With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best‑in‑class HR platform.

Senior Workday Implementation Specialist

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as a Senior Workday Implementation Specialist, joining our Global Payroll Implementation team.

In your role, you will be responsible for implementing and integrating multiple new customers onto our Remote Global Payroll platform where Workday serves as the core HCM system, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and seamless delivery within agreed timescales.

You will be reporting to the Manager, Global Payroll Workday Implementations.

What You Bring

• Proven experience implementing or integrating Workday HCM, ideally within a global payroll or HRIS context.
• Strong understanding of Workday modules including Core HCM, Compensation, Absence, Time Tracking, and Integrations.
• Experience delivering end-to-end payroll implementations leveraging Workday as the source of truth for HR and employee data.
• Demonstrated ability to map and validate data between Workday and external payroll systems, ensuring compliance and data accuracy.
• Excellent and proficient understanding of global payroll operations, statutory compliance, and multi‑country payroll setup.
• Strong customer onboarding and project management experience for complex, multi‑entity implementations.
• Advanced data management and analysis skills (Google Sheets or Excel).
• An analytical, detail‑oriented mindset with strong problem‑solving abilities.
• Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced, international environment with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Strong communication and relationship‑building skills with a customer‑first mindset.
• Self‑starter, comfortable working independently and asynchronously across time zones.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken).
• Experience working remotely is a plus.
• Familiarity with Monday.com, Notion, Slack, and Salesforce is a plus.
• Knowledge of other payroll platforms is a plus.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Workday payroll integrations for large and complex customers, ensuring successful setup, data migration, and go‑live.
• Serve as the primary technical and functional point of contact for customers implementing Remote’s Global Payroll integrated with Workday.
• Analyze customers’ Workday environments to understand data structures, configurations, and dependencies for integration into Remote’s systems.
• Manage the data extraction, transformation, and validation processes between Workday and Remote’s Global Payroll platform.
• Partner closely with customers’ HRIS, Payroll, and IT teams to align HCM‑to‑Payroll data flows, ensuring accurate configuration and compliance.
• Configure Remote’s Payroll system on a customer‑by‑customer basis, ensuring adherence to local regulations and tax requirements.
• Coordinate and validate parallel payroll runs, reconciliations, and year‑to‑date adjustments to confirm setup accuracy.
• Oversee payroll go‑live readiness, ensuring all integrations, validations, and compliance checks are complete.
• Transition customers to Payroll Operations teams with complete and accurate configuration documentation.
• Provide training and guidance to customers on Workday integration processes, data mapping, and payroll best practices.
• Maintain strong customer relationships to drive satisfaction, adoption, and retention.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying opportunities for automation, scalability, and process optimisation.
• Maintain the confidentiality and integrity of customer and employee data at all times.
• Participate in quality assurance reviews of peer implementations to ensure consistency and compliance with Remote’s standards.
• Support the creation and maintenance of Workday integration playbooks and internal process documentation.

Practicals

• You'll report to: Manager, Global Payroll Implementations
• Team: Global Payroll Implementations
• Location: Remote‑only, EMEA

Remote Compensation Philosophy

Remote’s Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap‑labor practices; therefore we ensure to pay above in‑location rates. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The base salary range is subject to change and depends on factors such as location, transferable or job‑related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands.

In addition to base salary, Remote offers the following benefits and perks to all Remoters:

• Budget for local in‑person social events or co‑working spaces
• Health, dental, and vision coverage depending on local regulations
• Paid time off and flexible vacation accrual
• Stock options or equity grants where applicable
• Professional development stipend and training resources
• Support for remote work setup (equipment, home office allowance)
• Unlimited paid sick leave and personal days
• Comprehensive parental and family leave policy
• Life and disability insurance where available

How you’ll plan your day (and life)

We work async at Remote, which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life‑work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under‑represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. During your interviews and beyond, we ask and encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences, and this data will help us to stay accountable.

How to apply

Please fill out the form below and upload your CV in PDF format. We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote. If you don’t have an up‑to‑date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

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