Attain Partners - Workday Payroll Consulting Manager
Requirements
• 5+ years of hands-on configuration experience in Workday payroll as a Workday customer or systems implementor. • 3+ years of product ownership experience in Workday payroll and other Workday HCM modules as a Workday customer or consultant. • Experience defining and managing execution of agile release management processes including backlog management, roadmap definition, prioritization, sprint planning and change control. • Demonstrated knowledge of Workday payroll solution and Workday ecosystem. • Workday customer or implementor certification in payroll. • Strong functional knowledge of payroll business processes, including upstream and downstream impacts across Workday functional areas, common challenges with Workday solutions, and leading practices. • Strong analytical and communication skills with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear recommendations. • Ability to lead client engagements independently and collaboratively. • Bachelor’s degree required. • Previous employment as a management or technology consultant at a recognized professional services organization. • Previous experience in management or technology consulting, with material client project experience in payroll and HCM business process analysis and ERP transformation (e.g., current state assessment, software selection, software implementation). • Experience working with mission-driven sectors such as higher education, nonprofit, and state and local is preferred. • Previous experience and/or certification as payroll professional. • Experience supporting business development efforts such as proposal writing and sourcing new business for existing clients is preferred. • Demonstrated ability to build trusted advisor relationships with clients • Experience supporting sales and business development • Position requires flexibility to travel periodically based on business and client needs
Responsibilities
• Guide ERP Readiness and Advisory: Conduct assessments, develop roadmaps, and advise clients on ERP-related decisions within broader transformation efforts. • Guide ERP Readiness and Advisory: • Shape Client Strategy: Collaborate with client leaders and practitioners to define vision, evaluate options, and align technology investments with mission outcomes. • Shape Client Strategy: • Facilitate Stakeholder Alignment: Lead daily meetings, workshops, interviews, and executive briefings to surface priorities, drive program execution and build consensus. Effectively manage working relationships between our clients, system implementation partners, independent contracts and other third parties. • Facilitate Stakeholder Alignment: • Advise with Leading Practice: Help our clients contextualize their Workday challenges and decisions, bringing relevant experience, Workday product expertise, and practical solutions. • Advise with Leading Practice: • Provide Operational Leadership: Facilitate the end-to-end product lifecycle for Workday Payroll solutions, including roadmap definition, backlog prioritization, and delivery across configuration, integration, reporting and technical teams. • Provide Operational Leadership: • Direct Workday Releases: Provide framework and tactical support for our clients to manage biannual releases and routine system enhancements, ensuring platform stability while driving continuous improvement across payroll processes. • Direct Workday Releases: • Drive Sustainment Planning: Facilitate planning of an effective future state Payroll organization that adapts to Workday HCM and Payroll functionality, and provides the client with the opportunity to make organizational changes that will positively impact their payroll capacity and capability. • Drive Sustainment Planning: • Collaborate Across Workstreams: Partner with delivery teams across large complex Workday programs including program management, change management and training, HR, Finance and IT towards a shared vision of success, and greater ROI for our Workday customers. • Collaborate Across Workstreams: • Contribute to Practice Growth: Support methodology development, proposal writing, business development, thought leadership, and internal capability building. • Contribute to Practice Growth:
Benefits
• $175,000—$190,000 USD
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