Workday Configurator- Payroll

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Where is the work:

Monday to Thursday, work onsite with your colleagues. Fridays, choose your work location, balancing what your work requires.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Product Configurator to join our team. In this role, you will serve as a key representative for cross-team initiatives, providing expertise, direction, and connections to ensure successful project outcomes. You will partner with other functional product configurators on strategic product initiatives, promoting consistency in configuration and building new functionality.

This role will place particular emphasis on Workday Payroll , including product configuration, stakeholder consultation, feature adoption, process optimization, and alignment of payroll capabilities with broader Workday architecture and cross-functional business needs.

What you will do

• Represent cross-team initiatives outside your functional domain, providing expertise and direction.

• Collaborate with other product configurators on strategic initiatives.

• Promote consistency in configuration and functionality development across Workday product areas, with a strong focus onWorkday Payrolldesign standards and scalable configuration practices.

• Develop a broad understanding of critical projects and initiatives in your functional area for upcoming releases.

• Review proposed feature specifications and provide guidance on design decisions.

• Identify touchpoints across product areas and features to enable greater alignment, collaboration, and scalability.

• Create scalable designs that meet both short- and long-term stakeholder needs.

• Assist in scoping and sizing discussions with a focus on cross-team impacts and strategic stakeholder requirements.

• Work with Product Owners/Leads to analyze stakeholder feedback and usage data to make design and prioritization recommendations.

• Conduct research to understand stakeholder questions and related Workday concepts, especially those connected toWorkday Payroll, payroll operations, and downstream impacts.

• Deliver small-scope consulting in response to stakeholder requests, providing configuration guidance, demonstrations, and tips.

• Troubleshoot product configuration to resolve or optimize configurations to meet stakeholder business requirements.

• Support the design, configuration, and optimization ofWorkday Payrollfeatures, ensuring solutions align with business process requirements, compliance considerations, and user experience goals.

• Partner with stakeholders to improve adoption and effective use ofWorkday Payrollfunctionality, including payroll-related configuration, process design, and release readiness.

• Communicate responses and value to stakeholders clearly and effectively.

• Create and deliver stakeholder presentations on using Workday features to achieve business goals, including education onWorkday Payrollcapabilities, enhancements, and best practices.

• Provide one-on-one consulting guidance to accelerate stakeholder feature adoption.

• Review Workday tenants to identify adoption opportunities and stay familiar with the Workday roadmap, with particular attention to theWorkday Payrollroadmap and feature evolution.

• Help drive the creation of new programs to enhance stakeholder feature adoption.

• Conduct appointment-based consulting engagements during Office Hours, providing guidance and product expertise.

• Perform configuration and business requirements reviews with detailed deliverables highlighting optimization opportunities.

• Serve as a trusted subject matter resource forWorkday Payroll, helping stakeholders understand system capabilities, configuration options, dependencies, and opportunities for standardization.

• Evaluate payroll-related business requirements and recommend configuration approaches that balance compliance, efficiency, scalability, and Workday best practices.

What you will bring

• 5+ years of experience with HCM systems,Workday preferred, including meaningful experience supporting or configuringWorkday Payroll.

• 8+ years of experience designing, building, and supporting enterprise processes and enabling systems.

• Proven track record of defining business problems, researching user needs, prototyping and testing new solutions, collaborating with project teams, and participating in the Agile process.

• Collaborative style that enables successful completion of complex product roadmaps across teams.

• Excellent organizational, collaboration, and communication skills, with comfort delivering content to both developer and business leader audiences.

• Strong analytical skills, adept at exploring and researching ambiguous problem spaces and using data to build actionable work units.

• Self-directed with the ability to proactively identify needs and make valuable contributions.

• Mastery of one or more Workday product areas, with strong preference for expertise inWorkday Payroll.

• Strong functional and technical understanding of the Workday architecture, including Business Process Framework, Security, user interface, reporting, and how these components supportWorkday Payrollprocesses and integrations.

• Experience conducting research to understand stakeholder questions and related Workday concepts.

• Ability to deliver content in response to stakeholder requests, providing configuration guidance, demonstrations, and tips.

• Skilled in troubleshooting product configuration to resolve or optimize configurations to meet stakeholder business requirements.

• Experience creating and delivering stakeholder presentations on using Workday features to achieve business goals.

• Demonstrated knowledge ofWorkday Payrollconfiguration, payroll process flows, payroll-related security, testing considerations, and stakeholder support practices.

• Ability to connectWorkday Payrollrequirements to upstream and downstream Workday processes, ensuring cohesive and scalable end-to-end solutions.

Annual Base Salary Range or Hourly Base Pay Range:

$84,740.00 - $137,200.00

Compensation Type:

Salary

Incentive Eligible:

No

Sales Commission Eligible:

No

Disclaimer : We strive to provide competitive compensation for this position, tailored to a variety of factors. The actual compensation will depend on elements such as seniority, merit, geographic location, education, experience, travel requirements, and union designation. Our compensation range is generally based on the national average for the country. Additionally, benefits may vary depending on the region, business alignment, union involvement, and employee status.

Thrive at work and at home:

• Benefits kick in on DAY ONE for you and your family, including health insurance and holistic wellness programs that include generous incentives – WE DARE TO CARE!

• Family building benefits include fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy assistance.

• 401K match up to 6%, plus an additional 2% core contribution = up to 8% company contribution.

• Paid time off includes 15 vacation days, 9 paid holidays, 3 floating holidays, sick leave, and additional options to support volunteer and parental leave.

• Educational and training opportunities through company programs along with tuition assistance and student debt support.

Disclaimer: Benefit offerings may vary depending on Collective Bargaining Agreements and local/state regulations.

Safety Sensitive Role:

No

The company designates certain roles as Safety Sensitive. Safety Sensitive roles may require that you pass additional drug screening.

We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits and programs. We are an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, pregnancy, age, marital status, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any legally protected status.