Workday PATT - Payroll, Absence and Time Tracking- Senior Application Consultant

Capgemini; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini is seeking a Workday Payroll, Absence & Time Tracking Lead to join our global Workday practice in New York. You will act as a functional lead responsible for designing, configuring, implementing, and supporting Workday Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking for global and U.S.-based clients.

You will partner with HR, Payroll, and IT teams to deliver scalable, compliant workforce management solutions.

Qualifications

• Deep functional expertise across Workday Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking.
• Strong consulting and client-facing skills.
• Lead workstreams through the full project lifecycle: discovery, design, config, testing, deployment, support.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, configuration, and deployment of Workday Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking.
• Facilitate client workshops and requirements gathering.
• Configure payroll earnings, deductions, taxes, pay groups, and processing frameworks.
• Design complex absence plans, accrual rules, and compliance-related processes.
• Configure and support Time Tracking: time entry, schedules, overtime, shifts.
• Mentor junior consultants and support knowledge sharing in the Workday practice.
• Contribute to business development activities and solution demonstrations.

Skills

Workday Payroll

Workday Absence

Workday Time Tracking

Client-facing

Workday configuration

Workshop facilitation

Solution design

Mentoring

Testing & UAT

Tools

Workday

Job description

Choosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you’d like, where you’ll be supported and inspired bya collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you’ll be able to reimagine what’s possible. Join us and help the world’s leading organizationsunlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world.

About The Job You're Considering

Capgemini is seeking a Workday Payroll, Absence & Time Tracking Lead to join our rapidly growing Workday practice. In this role, you will serve as a functional lead responsible for designing, configuring, implementing, and supporting Workday Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking solutions for global and U.S.-based clients. You will partner with business stakeholders, HR, Payroll, and IT teams to deliver scalable, compliant, and innovative workforce management solutions while helping clients transform their payroll and workforce processes.

This position requires deep functional expertise across Workday Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking, strong consulting and client-facing skills, and the ability to lead workstreams through the full project lifecycle, including discovery, design, configuration, testing, deployment, and post-production support.

Application Consultants understand the client business process, current and future, and map it to the technologies being used, giving a demarcation of what can be achieved through a standard implementation and what would need customizations or extensions to be done to the application. They may functionally customize the application, partner with application developers to design application enhancements and extensions, and work with business users to implement process changes. Individual should be able to conceptualize a business or technical solution leveraging colleagues and partners and must mastered at least one methodology in depth and have an advanced knowledge of one or more business domains, and one or more SaaS or package software solutions. This role has wide knowledge of industry innovations and competitor activity and actively engage in, and contribute to, internal and external knowledge developments. Individual has the solution knowledge and consulting skills to lead process improvements, analysis on business processes andor or IT and can advise clients on the implementation of one or more package modules. This role is responsible for workshop facilitation, integration testing and user acceptance testing. Individual is seen as active member within technology communities. Certifications: maintain certifications on Saas or Package Based solution and relevant methodology‹

Your Role

• 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.

Your Skills And Experience