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Workday

Builds software to manage HR and finances

HCM Solution Consultant

Full-Time
No salary listed
Mid
North Sydney, Australia+1 moreMore locations: Melbourne VIC, Australia
HybridAt least 50% of time each quarter is spent in the office or in the field with customers, prospects, and partners.
Solution EngineeringPre-Sales Solution Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • Proven presales Workforce Management and Payroll consulting experience, or strong functional knowledge and experience gained as a payroll practitioner, HCM enterprise solution presales or sales payroll consultant, and/or payroll application implementation professional.
  • Subject matter expertise in payroll and workforce management.
  • Knowledge of HCM enterprise solutions and HCM is desirable but beneficial to the role.
  • Ability to present and demonstrate HCM technology solutions to C-level Human Resources leadership audiences.
  • Ability to communicate effectively and influence C-level executives.
  • Ability to travel 50% or more of the time.
Responsibilities
  • Deliver relevant technical product presentations, demonstrations, workshops, and seminars.
  • Craft detailed design and implementation specifications for sophisticated products, applications, and solutions.
  • Assist in closing sales opportunities by demonstrating a complete understanding of the solution, services, and training and resolving related questions.
  • Support prospect qualification, demonstration criteria, proof-of-concept system builds, and sales-cycle closure plans.
  • Support sales, marketing, technical, and channel objectives.
  • Assist sales with responses to requests for information and requests for proposals.
  • Participate in discovery sessions alongside Sales, ask qualifying questions, and understand customer struggles, current business processes, and ideal future state.
  • Use in-depth enterprise resource planning product knowledge to provide technical expertise to sales staff and customers through sales presentations and product demonstrations.
Desired Qualifications
  • Knowledge of HCM enterprise solutions and HCM.
  • Passion for Workday and belief in the business value of adopting Workday solutions.

About the company

Workday builds cloud software that organizations use to manage employees, finances, and business plans. Its Human Capital Management and Financial Management applications handle processes such as hiring, payroll, expenses, accounting, and reporting, while Adaptive Planning helps teams build budgets and forecasts. Users work in connected applications with shared data and permissions, and Workday also sells AI tools that search information and carry out HR and finance tasks. Customers pay for subscriptions, with additional revenue from implementation, training, and other professional services. Workday was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Pleasanton, California

Founded

2005

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What believers are saying

  • Subscriptions keep growing: Workday reported quarterly subscription revenue up 13.9% to $2.471 billion in August 2026 results.
  • Regional distribution expanded: Workday launched UAE operations with a Dubai office and local leadership in October 2026.
  • Employee development has explicit support: Workday's current careers page highlights internal mobility and investment in employee skills.

What critics are saying

  • Job security weakened: Workday announced a 2.5% workforce reduction, mainly in Product and Technology, in September 2026.
  • Incumbents resist displacement: Workday names Oracle and SAP as primary rivals with established customer relationships in HR and finance.
  • Enterprise sales take time: Workday reports typical new customer sales cycles of six to twelve months, sometimes exceeding eighteen.

What makes Workday unique

  • AI acts inside established permissions: Workday launched Sana with over 300 HR and finance skills in March 2026.
  • Federal planning meets authorization requirements: Workday Adaptive Planning achieved FedRAMP Moderate for sensitive unclassified data in July 2026.
  • Custom apps inherit platform controls: Workday Extend lets developers build applications using its existing organizational and security models.

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Benefits

  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Hybrid Work Options
  • Performance Bonus
  • Stock Options
  • Professional Development Budget
  • Conference Attendance Budget

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South Jordan Journal
Oct 22nd, 2026
Workday prices $2.5B senior notes offering to refinance $1B of 2027 debt

Workday has priced a $2.5 billion public offering of senior notes, the company announced on October 21, 2026. The offering is expected to close on October 23, 2026, subject to customary conditions. The offering has four parts: $750 million of 5.700% notes due 2029, $500 million of 6.000% notes due 2031, $750 million of 6.300% notes due 2033, and $500 million of 6.500% notes due 2036. Workday will use the proceeds to retire its $1 billion of 3.500% notes due April 1, 2027. Any remainder will go to general corporate purposes. Morgan Stanley, BofA Securities, Barclays, and Wells Fargo Securities are joint book-running managers.

Fortune
Oct 21st, 2026
Workday CFO Zane Rowe: AI's value goes beyond ROI and output

Workday chief financial officer Zane Rowe says finance chiefs should judge AI by better work and decisions, not output alone. Return on investment still matters, he told Fortune, but so do stronger decisions, greater capacity, and improved customer value. An AI tool might help a finance team produce twice as many reports, Rowe said, but that does not make the business better. The real test is whether the team uncovers insights, anticipates problems, and advises leaders. Workday is expanding Decision Intelligence to HR and finance, letting teams model scenarios such as hiring changes by region. At its Rising event, it also announced "autopilot agents" for accounting, payroll, and hiring, and a partnership with Anthropic. Rowe's tax team is developing 10 AI agents, though not all will make the cut.

Fortune
Oct 19th, 2026
Workday's second act: Bhusri returns as AI fears hit and revenue growth slows to 13%

Workday's cofounder Aneel Bhusri has returned as chief executive officer of the enterprise software firm, taking back the job in February. He had handed it to Carl Eschenbach in 2024, according to Fortune. The company, which makes human resources, finance, payroll, and planning software, faces fears that AI agents will make per-seat software obsolete. Revenue growth has slowed to 13%, and Workday has gone through several rounds of layoffs. Activist investor Elliott Management is reportedly "lurking in the wings." In 2018, Workday topped the Fortune Future 50. Its software ran critical operations for half of the Fortune 50 and more than 35% of the Fortune 500.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 18th, 2026
ServiceNow's revenue grows 24% to $4B, outpacing Workday's 13% growth and $2.7B quarterly sales

ServiceNow is growing revenue faster than Workday, according to an analysis of the two software companies' last eight quarters. ServiceNow's second-quarter revenue reached $4.0 billion, up 24% year over year. Workday's hit $2.7 billion, up 13%. ServiceNow's AI offerings passed $1 billion in annual contract value (ACV) during the quarter. Customers with more than $5 million in ACV rose 23%. Workday said AI capabilities drove more than 25% of its new ACV in its fiscal second quarter.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 16th, 2026
Straiker brings independent AI agent red-teaming to Workday Agent Passport

Straiker, a security startup, is integrating its Ascend AI red-teaming platform with Workday Agent Passport, the trust layer of Workday's Agent System of Record. It is the first independent security partner to red-team agents built by Workday customers and partners for Workday Marketplace. Ascend AI tests each agent for prompt injection, tool misuse, data leakage, and other attack paths. Straiker submits signed results to Agent Passport. Where they cover a Workday-defined Stamp, such as Prompt Injection Resistance, Workday issues a cryptographically signed Stamp tied to the tested agent version. Customers see an agent's Stamps before installing it, and each decides which Stamps its agents must hold. Workday alone issues Stamps, so the party that tests an agent never vouches for it. Ascend AI is available now. The integration is targeted for Agent Passport's general availability.