Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Alchemy is currently seeking an experienced payroll professional to join their Workday Platform team as a Workday Payroll Senior Consultant. The role involves leading clients through Workday system implementations, managing project development lifecycles, and ensuring clients utilize best practices in payroll management.
Responsibilities
- As the payroll subject matter expert, lead clients through their Workday system implementation and the project development lifecycle
- Perform the following as a member of a deployment team: gather and understand customer payroll business requirements, design and configure the Workday Payroll solution, demonstrate configurations through the development of prototype systems, lead and manage parallel testing sessions, and complete knowledge transfer to customers
- Identify and analyze business needs and requirements, being able to translate technical requirements into business-appropriate terminology
- Create and develop functional designs and specifications and analyze gaps, while being able to successfully provide solutions
- Work with customers to review, understand and convert legacy payroll history into Workday
- Assist the integration consulting team in configuring and testing integrations between Workday and other third-party or custom solutions
- Consult with clients on a variety of data integrity issues and leading business practices utilizing Workday
- Ensure customers understand and take advantage of Alchemy and Workday best practices
- Strive to innovate and suggest new approaches and tools to deploy Workday efficiently and effectively
- Help ensure customers remain referenceable once in production
- Work with clients to identify/resolve all issues that could impact project scope and/or timeframe
- Partner with project managers to ensure alignment across project plans and allocated budgets
- Help mentor new consultants and serve as a professional role model
- Maintain Workday certifications and qualifications
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree or commensurate work experience
- Experience as a Workday Payroll functional lead
- 4+ years of payroll processing or payroll implementation experience with Workday, Ellucian, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, or similar applications
- Ability to use rigorous logic to understand hidden problems and identify effective solutions
- Ability to effectively manage against timelines and goals
- Strong organizational, interpersonal, communication, and customer service skills with both technical and functional end-users
- An active Workday Payroll certification
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 40%
- Previous consulting experience within Higher Education (college/university)
- Experience in time tracking, absence, scheduling, compensation, benefits, or HCM
Benefits
- Market competitive compensation packages and annual merit program
- A remote work environment
- One-time home office reimbursement for new hires
- Expense allowance per pay period (towards technology, office, and/or wellness)
- Investment in your ongoing Workday training
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits that begin on day one
- HSA, FSA, STD, LTD, and life benefits
- Unlimited paid time off. We want you to take care of yourself and those who matter most to you
- Ten (10) paid holidays
- One (1) paid flex day
- 401(k) with employer annual contribution
- Paid parental leave
- DEIB council
- Quarterly awards and recognition
- Award-winning culture! Alchemy is a Great Place to Work-certified company
- This role may also be eligible for participation in Alchemy’s variable bonus plan (role-specific), with additional details shared during the hiring process
Company Overview
Alchemy offers distinctive services, tools, expertise, and learning programs for successfully deploying Workday solutions. It was founded in 2016, and is headquartered in Reno, Nevada, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://alchemy.us/.