Senior Workday Payroll, Absence & Time Tracking Lead

Capgemini; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 73,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Retirement savings plans

Life and disability insurance

Job summary

Capgemini is actively seeking a Senior Workday Application Consultant specializing in Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking to lead design, configuration, and deployment for global and U.S.-based clients.

You will partner with HR, Payroll, and IT teams to deliver scalable, compliant workforce solutions while guiding workshops, testing, and go-live readiness through the full project lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in HR, IS, Business, Finance, CS, or related field.
• 5+ years hands-on experience implementing and supporting Workday Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking solutions.
• Minimum of two full lifecycle Workday Payroll implementations from design through deployment.
• Strong experience configuring Workday Payroll for U.S. organizations, including payroll calculations, taxes, earnings, deductions, and compliance requirements.
• Hands-on experience designing and configuring Workday Absence and Time Tracking solutions.
• Experience facilitating client workshops, requirements gathering sessions, and solution design discussions.
• Proven experience leading functional workstreams within complex Workday implementation projects.
• Strong understanding of payroll operations, workforce management processes, labor regulations, and compliance requirements.
• Experience supporting testing activities including SIT, UAT, payroll parallel testing, and go-live readiness.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with executive stakeholders and client leadership teams.
• Experience creating functional documentation, training materials, process flows, and implementation deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Lead functional design, configuration, and deployment of Workday Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking solutions.
• Facilitate client workshops, discovery sessions, and requirements gathering activities to understand business, payroll, and workforce management needs.
• Configure Payroll earnings, deductions, taxes, payroll calculations, pay groups, and payroll processing frameworks in alignment with regulatory and organizational requirements.
• Design and implement complex absence plans, leave programs, accrual rules, eligibility criteria, and compliance-related leave processes.
• Configure and support Time Tracking solutions, including time entry, schedules, overtime, premium pay, shifts, and labor tracking requirements.
• Act as a trusted advisor to clients by recommending leading practices and optimizing business processes utilizing Workday functionality.
• Lead solution design discussions and provide strategic guidance regarding Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking capabilities.
• Support integrations, data conversion activities, and cross-functional dependencies with HCM, Benefits, Compensation, and Financials workstreams.
• Develop functional specifications, configuration documentation, testing scripts, training materials, and process documentation.
• Manage unit testing, system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), payroll parallel testing, and deployment readiness activities.
• Support payroll audits, compliance requirements, legal reporting needs, and regulatory changes impacting Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence processes.
• Provide post-go-live support including issue resolution, root cause analysis, system enhancements, and ongoing optimization.
• Mentor junior consultants and support knowledge-sharing initiatives within the Workday practice.
• Contribute to business development activities, client presentations, solution demonstrations, and proposal responses as needed.
• Leverage AI, automation, and digital transformation capabilities to improve workforce management and payroll operations.

Skills

Workday Payroll

Absence & Time Tracking

Client-facing skills

Lead/workstreams

Workday configuration

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Workday

Job description

Capgemini is actively seeking a Senior Workday Application Consultant specializing in Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking to lead design, configuration, and deployment for global and U.S.-based clients.

You will partner with HR, Payroll, and IT teams to deliver scalable, compliant workforce solutions while guiding workshops, testing, and go-live readiness through the full project lifecycle.