Workday HCM Payroll Senior Manager

Workday HCM/PayrollSenior Manager

You Belong Here

The Protiviti Career provides opportunity to learn, inspire, and advance within a collaborative and inclusive culture.  We hire curious individuals for whom learning is a passion. We lean into our mission: We Care. We Collaborate. We Deliver.

At every level, we champion leaders who live our values of integrity, inclusion, innovation, and commitment to success. Imagining our work as a journey, we believe integrity guides our way, inclusion moves us forward together, innovation creates new destinations, and our commitment to success empowers us to deliver on our vision to be the most trusted global consulting firm.

Where We Need You

Protiviti is looking for a Technology Consulting Senior Manager to join our growing Workday team. 

What You Can Expect

As a Senior Manager, you’ll partner with our clients to identify and manage risk.You'll develop strategies to solve complex business problems using new ways of thinking, and devise solutions to support your clients' needs through using the latest tools and methods.  You’ll develop lasting relationships with client personnel and further these relationships through quality product delivery.  You’ll foster a network within the business community and serve as an ambassador of Protiviti in the market. You will also be a mentor and provide performance development to teams as you oversee the successful completion of project work plans.

What Will Help You Be Successful

• You enjoy managing projects around Workday implementations and optimizations.

• You are motivated to learn and interested in all things related to Workday implementations, including the latest trends and developments. 

• You are passionate about building relationships with clients and providing exceptional experiences.

• You have an inherent interest in project management and team leadership. 

• You promote a positive team culture that fosters open communication among all engagement team members. 

• You create development opportunities for others, including participating in the creation and rollout of training, and ways for your team to improve our clients and communities.

• You have interest in contributing to the preparation of client proposals and strategies to win new business. 

• You excel at identifying opportunities to integrate product solutions and resources to improve client service capabilities.

• You have interest in working with a diverse portfolio of clients.

Do Your Talents Include the Following?

• Demonstrated experience with:

• Serving as a Workday solution architect and workstream lead for HCM and Payroll.

• Serving as a project manager over large, complex Workday HCM and payroll implementations

• Developing Workday HCM and payroll implementation plans, including estimating the level of effort, timing and costs

• Leading / managing future state design and process improvement projects focused on HCM and Payroll business functions.

• Functional and systems experience focused on HCM and Payroll business functions.

• Designing and implementing Workday HCM and Payroll with key responsibilities including leading and facilitating: requirements definition, design workshops, testing, data conversion, training, cutover, and post go-live support.

• Designing and architecting Workday HCM and Payroll configurations, including core HCM, Compensation, Advanced Comp, Benefits Administration, Payroll and integrations with other systems.

• Implementing best practices for Workday HCM and Payroll to ensure data accuracy, security, and compliance with applicable standards.

• Conducting gap analysis between business needs and Workday capabilities, recommending solutions or enhancements.

• Leading and performing Workday application control reviews and risk assessments.

• Assessing a Workday platform in the context of a Sarbanes-Oxley compliance effort is a plus.

• Evaluating, summarizing, organizing, and interpreting data. 

• Establishing and cultivating business relationships and a professional network, including with senior executives. 

• Successfully pursuing business development opportunities and identifying and implementing strategies to obtain new work or clientele. 

• Ability to translate and communicate issues, risk, or challenges to client personnel, including executives. 

• Leadership and direct supervisory experience of teams including conducting performance appraisals, mentoring and coaching, oversight and review of work, coordination across teams, and understanding how to motivate.  

Your Educational and Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., Business Administration, Human Resources Management, Psychology, Information Technology/MIS, Engineering)

• 7+ years working in a related field or professional services.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite applications with specific emphasis on Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Secondary emphasis on Visio and Access.

• Professional Certification such as Workday HCM and/or Payroll or similar strongly preferred. 

Our Hybrid Workplace

Protiviti practices a hybrid model, which is a combination of working in person with a purpose and working remotely. This model creates meaningful experiences for our people and our clients while offering a flexible environment. The ratio of remote to in-person requirements vary by client, project, team, and other business factors. Our people work both in-person in local Protiviti offices and on client sites, which can include local or out-of-state travel based on our projects and client requests and commitments.