Workday Payroll Senior Principal Consultant
工作日薪水高级总监顾问是负责推动工作日薪资实施的设计，交付和整体成功的高级职能领导者。作为客户和项目团队的可靠顾问，该个人提供了关于工资转型，工资流程操作和工作日领先实践的战略指导，同时确保解决方案与业务目标保持一致。高级总监咨询师结合深入的工作日薪资专业知识与交付领导，售前支持和人员发展责任。负责人·担任高级工作日薪酬专家，提供关于工资战略，运营和工作日最佳实践的指导。·领导客户研讨会，发现会议和设计讨论来定义适用于业务需求的可扩展的工作日薪水解决方案。·自主解决方案设计并监督配置，测试，部署和后续转型活动。· 作为中大型工作日薪水实施的功能领导者，管理关键解决方案决策，风险和依赖性。· 咨询客户关于工资流程，合规要求，控制和工资转型倡议。· 与 HCM,福利，时间跟踪，缺席，集成，报告，安全，变化管理和项目管理团队合作，提供综合解决方案。·与集成团队紧密合作，支持与工资供应商，福利供应商以及第三方应用程序的接口。· 在整个项目生命周期内支持测试，平行运行工资，截止，部署和超级护理活动。· 提供质量评价和功能领导的导师，教练顾问及高级顾问。·支持包括解决方案，估计，建议，示范和客户介绍在内的业务发展活动。·通过方法改进，内部培训，资产创造和知识分享举措来促进实践开发。·保持有关工作日薪水功能，立法更新，行业趋势和产品创新方面的专业知识。技能与要求 ·学士学位或同等经验。· 积极的工作日薪水证书
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The Workday Payroll Senior Principal Consultant is a senior functional leader responsible for driving the design, delivery, and overall success of Workday Payroll implementations. Acting as a trusted advisor to clients and project teams, this individual provides strategic guidance on payroll transformation, payroll operations, and Workday leading practices while ensuring solutions align with business objectives.
The Senior Principal Consultant combines deep Workday Payroll expertise with delivery leadership, pre-sales support, and people development responsibilities. They lead complex solution discussions, guide implementation teams, support business development activities, and play a key role in growing the Workday practice through mentoring and knowledge sharing.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a senior Workday Payroll subject matter expert, providing guidance on payroll strategy, operations, and Workday best practices.
- Lead client workshops, discovery sessions, and design discussions to define scalable Workday Payroll solutions aligned to business requirements.
- Own solution design and provide oversight across configuration, testing, deployment, and post-go-live transition activities.
- Act as the functional lead for medium to large Workday Payroll implementations, managing key solution decisions, risks, and dependencies.
- Advise clients on payroll processes, compliance requirements, controls, and payroll transformation initiatives.
- Partner with HCM, Benefits, Time Tracking, Absence, Integrations, Reporting, Security, Change Management, and Project Management teams to deliver integrated solutions.
- Work closely with integration teams to support interfaces with payroll providers, benefits vendors, and third-party applications.
- Support testing, payroll parallel runs, cutover, deployment, and hypercare activities throughout the project lifecycle.
- Mentor and coach consultants and senior consultants, providing quality reviews and functional leadership.
- Support business development activities including solutioning, estimations, proposals, demonstrations, and customer presentations.
- Contribute to practice development through methodology improvements, internal training, asset creation, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
- Maintain expertise in Workday Payroll functionality, legislative updates, industry trends, and product innovations.
Skills & Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- Active Workday Payroll Certification preferred.
- 5+ years of Workday implementation experience, including multiple end-to-end Workday deployments.
- Proven experience leading Workday Payroll workstreams on medium to large implementations.
- Deep functional expertise in payroll processes, payroll operations, payroll compliance, earnings and deductions, payroll accounting, and payroll integrations.
- Experience gathering requirements, facilitating workshops, solution design, configuration, testing, payroll parallel runs, and deployment.
- Experience supporting pre-sales activities, including estimations, proposals, and solution presentations.
- Strong leadership, mentoring, stakeholder management, and consulting skills.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, including engagement with executive-level stakeholders.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in a fast-paced consulting environment.
- Eligible for SC Clearance - you must have been a UK resident for the last five years and be legally entitled to work in the UK.
- Minimal travel required, but must be willing to travel on-site as needed.
Why choose Cognizant:
- Entrepreneurial environment that welcomes your ideas
- Opportunity to do great work
- Outreach programs that support communities and tap into your volunteer spirit
- Learning opportunities to help current needs and advancement
- Global operations, with opportunities in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific
- An abundance of Affinity groups to meet your needs
Cognizant Core Values:
- Work as One: We think beyond roles, relying on each other’s strengths to win as a team.
- Raise the Bar: We always aim for excellence in how we work and what we deliver.
- Dare to Innovate: We push boundaries and take chances to reimagine what’s possible.
- Do the Right Thing: We all lead with integrity and always make the ethical choice.
- Own It: We own the outcomes for our company, colleagues, and community.
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