Sr Functional Consultant - Payroll

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At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. That’s why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don’t need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.

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About the Team

Workday’s Consulting teams are driven by a passion for our products and the success of our customers in implementing our outstanding cloud solutions. We’re a diverse group of people, with an invaluable mix of experience and backgrounds, located across multiple locations within the region. We are often remote from one another but that doesn’t stop our sense of collaboration, supportiveness, and fun.

We offer flexible work schedules, empower you to follow your desired career path & achieve professional and personal goals, encourage work-life balance and wellbeing, and are proud to champion equal opportunities for everyone.

About the Role

We are looking for a hardworking, innovative and collaborative functional consultant to join our team. In this role you will play a key part in ensuring the successful implementation of Workday solutions with customers through product and implementation expertise.  The ideal candidate for this position should have extensive experience implementing Australian HR & Payroll systems, requirements gathering, configuration, data conversion, and testing. You should be adaptable, curious, detail oriented, self-motivated, proactive and able to successfully partner with customers and your project team. Be ready to be challenged and have fun!

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Become an expert across multiple workday products, with a focus on Payroll and Workforce Management (Absence, Time Tracking & Scheduling)
• Perform the following on a client engagement: understand client business requirements, configure the Workday solution, demonstrate the configurations through the building of prototype configuration, assist the client in testing the Workday solution.
• Work with the client to support translate their requirements and legacy data into the Workday solution.
• Assist the Integration Consulting team in helping to configure and test integrations between Workday and 3rd party/custom solutions.
• Understand Workday’s Implementation Methodology and use it on all client engagements.
• Mentor and share product knowledge with other consultants. Work with other consultants and product experts to develop solutions to address common customer challenges and streamline deployment processes.
• Ensure the client takes advantage of Workday's proven solutions. Help deliver successful project outcomes and lasting client relationships.
• Participate in regular training to expand product knowledge with each new Workday release and other job critical skills relevant to the role

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of functional experience with HR & Payroll software solutions or systems.
• Recent Australian Industry HR & Payroll experience, including experience with Australian Awards and Enterprise Agreements.
• 5+ years pf consulting experience either as a consultant with a professional services company or an internal consultant.
• Experience across a variety of industries (e.g. Healthcare, Financial Services, Retail, Education, Government)
• Experience implementing or working with Workday, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, ADP or similar applications.
• The successful candidate’s ability to acquire, hold and maintain an Australian Government security clearance to the required level, is an inherent requirement for this role.

Other Qualifications

• Passion for customer service.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Business analysis and requirements gathering abilities.
• Ability to learn technology quickly through instruction and self-training.
• Experience deploying multiple projects simultaneously a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time.

Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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