Workday Payroll - Associate Director

Focus on WD; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus up to 15%

Job summary

Focus Cloud is recruiting for an Associate Director to oversee the US Payroll practice within a leading Workday partner. This is a high-visibility role designed to shape standards, delivery methodologies and future hiring across multiple Payroll projects.

You will mentor teams, influence solution design, and support pre-sales while remaining close to deployment work when needed. This is a senior leadership path with broad impact across Workday programmes.

Qualifications

• Active Workday US Payroll implementer certification is required.
• Significant Workday Payroll implementation and deployment experience within a Workday partner or consulting environment.
• Current or recent experience operating at Senior Manager, Principal, Associate Director or comparable senior level.

Responsibilities

• Provide Associate Director-level oversight across multiple Workday US Payroll implementations and ensure consistently strong delivery.
• Help scale the Payroll capability through mentoring, team development, resource planning and future hiring.
• Define and improve Payroll delivery standards, methodologies and repeatable implementation approaches.
• Act as a senior escalation point on complex Payroll programmes while remaining capable of getting close to configuration and solution design when necessary.
• Support pre-sales, solutioning, scoping and estimation as the Workday practice continues to grow.

Skills

Workday Payroll leadership

Team leadership

Mentoring

Resource planning

Delivery leadership

Education

Workday US Payroll implementer certification

Tools

Workday

Time Tracking

Absence

Core HCM

Job description

United States | Permanent | Around $200k base + up to 15% bonus | 30-50% travel

Focus Cloud is supporting an established Workday consulting partner with the appointment of a Workday Payroll Associate Director.

This is a brand-new Associate Director position created to strengthen and scale an already established Workday practice. The organisation has an active portfolio of Workday deployments, an experienced consulting team and continued demand for Payroll expertise.

They are now looking for someone who can operate above individual project delivery - providing Associate Director-level oversight across the Payroll capability while remaining close enough to delivery to step into complex engagements when required.

About the company

• Established Workday consulting and implementation partner with an active US client portfolio.
• Existing Workday HCM and Payroll/Time capability with experienced consultants already in place.
• Strong pipeline of active and upcoming Workday deployment programmes.
• Consulting-led environment where Associate Directors remain close to customers, projects and delivery.
• Continued investment in expanding its Workday capability and developing the next generation of consulting leaders.

Why this opportunity is exciting

• This is a brand-new Associate Director position with the ability to genuinely shape how the Payroll capability develops.
• You will sit above individual Payroll project leads and influence delivery across multiple Workday programmes.
• There is an opportunity to build standards, methodologies and ways of working rather than simply inherit an established process.
• You will have real input into team development, hiring, solutioning, resourcing and the future direction of the Payroll practice.
• It offers a natural next step for an established Workday Payroll Senior Manager or Principal looking to move into an Associate Director position with broader ownership and visibility.

Key responsibilities

• Provide Associate Director-level oversight across multiple Workday US Payroll implementations and ensure consistently strong delivery.
• Help scale the Payroll capability through mentoring, team development, resource planning and future hiring.
• Define and improve Payroll delivery standards, methodologies and repeatable implementation approaches.
• Act as a senior escalation point on complex Payroll programmes while remaining capable of getting close to configuration and solution design when necessary.
• Support pre-sales, solutioning, scoping and estimation as the Workday practice continues to grow.

What we are looking for

• Active Workday US Payroll implementer certification is required.
• Significant Workday Payroll implementation and deployment experience within a Workday partner or consulting environment.
• Current or recent experience operating at Senior Manager, Principal, Associate Director or comparable senior level.
• Demonstrable experience leading Workday Payroll consultants, workstreams, projects or wider delivery teams.
• Strong understanding of the wider PATT landscape, with Time Tracking, Absence and Core HCM experience highly valuable.

Package and working model

• Around $200,000 base salary depending on experience.
• Annual bonus opportunity of up to approximately 15%.
• Permanent US-based position with flexibility on home location.
• Approximately 30-50% travel depending on project and client requirements.
• Associate Director opportunity within an established Workday partner with significant scope for continued progression and influence.

This is a particularly strong opportunity for somebody who has already proven themselves as a Workday Payroll implementation leader and is ready to step into an Associate Director position with responsibility beyond a single deployment.

You will have the opportunity to influence people, methodology, delivery, solutioning and the future direction of a growing Workday Payroll capability.

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