Workday Certified HCM Consultant

Founded by former Workday clients, we value partnership and engagement as a cornerstone of our business. With years of functional and technical experience in all phases of Workday’s deployment life cycle, we can determine the most efficient integration designs and rapid deployment strategies. We develop maintainable solutions and provide support for integration testing and updates for new Workday releases.

As a Workday HCM Senior Consultant, you will ensure successful deployment by architecting, configuring and testing the Workday HCM solution to meet the specific needs of the client.  Foster the development of other Consultants by sharing expertise.  May support proposal preparations, deliver demonstrations to clients and speak at conference.  

This remote role can be located anywhere within the UK to perform the required responsibilities.

Contract of Employment: Contract or Full-time. Hours are not fixed as we are a global company supporting other global companies. Work and assignments are task based. This is a remote position. Travel 0% - 25% is expected with the option of working from the location of your choice the rest of the time. Use of company owned laptop

 KEY EXPECTATIONS

• Provide expertise in multiple modules in the Workday HCM suite (HCM Core, Compensation, Benefits, Recruiting, Talent and Performance, Learning)
• Lead the following as a member of a deployment team, or coach others to successfully: gather and document client business requirements, design and configure the Workday solution, demonstrate configurations through the development of prototype systems, assist in testing the Workday solution, and complete knowledge transfer to clients
• Work with confidential client/data conversion team to help convert legacy data into Workday
• Assist the integration consulting team in configuring and testing integrations between Workday and other third-party or custom solutions
• Mentor new consultants and serve as a professional role model as well as coach others on product knowledge
• Resolve complex tasks/requirements when other team members need support
• Collaborate and communicate effectively  on team-based projects
• Facilitate clients’ intellectual and practical adoption of Workday best practices
• Maintain clients’ ongoing satisfaction, ensuring Intecrowd is reputable and referenceable once in production
• Provide regular status reports to the project managers keeping them apprised of overall project status
• Innovate and suggest new approaches and tools to deploy Workday efficiently and effectively
• Maintain Workday certifications and qualifications
• Ensure functional solutions are compatible with downstream data translation (assist integrators in configuring/testing integrations between Workday and external systems)
• Demonstrate computational thinking. Identify problem components, analyze patterns, remove inefficient configurations or processes, and construct algorithmic solutions scalable to ongoing client needs 
• Contribute to and mold a culture of continuous education among your colleagues, mentees, and managers - serve as a professional role model
• Provide insightful status reports to project managers that highlight risks to project health and improvements in client adoption

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Current Workday HCM Certification plus at least one other of the following HCM solutions:  Compensation, Benefits, Recruiting, Talent and Performance, Learning
• 2 - 4+ years of WD configuration and implementation experience 
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
• Previous consulting experience with a consulting/software company
• Previous experience deploying Workday, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, ADP, Ultimate or similar applications
• Demonstrated project management experience
• Functional human resources experience
• Passion for providing exceptional customer service
• Ability to effectively manage against timelines and goals
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Business analysis and requirements gathering abilities
• Ability to learn technology quickly through instruction and self-training
• Experience deploying multiple HCM projects simultaneously a plus
• Expected travel is +/-25% depending on project