Direct Client
Location: Chicago, IL
Onsite / Hybrid preferred
Rate: $70 / hr C2C
Job Description
Seeking a Workday Functional Consultant to join our team. The person in this role will be reporting to Senior Manager People Technology in IT. The IT HR Systems team enables our internal customers to optimize and/or facilitate their programs through HR Systems & technology.
You will be an advocate for delightful user experiences. You recognize Workday's limitations and when necessary are comfortable suggesting alternatives.
You have the experience in Core HCM, Compensation, Absence, Benefits and Reporting. Highly skilled in setting security groups, hierarchies, organizations and overall administration of security, gathering requirements, leading discovery sessions, business process configuration, report writer (advanced, composite, matrix, transposed and trended reports), calculated fields, creates dashboards, builds integrations through EIBs and cloud connectors.
Responsibilities
Work on Core HCM, Absence, Benefits and Reporting.
Work with both internal and external stakeholders to gather and analyze business requirements and drive the planning, development, testing, and implementation of the Workday HCM system.
Ensuring the integrity of HR Systems, primarily but not limited to Workday.
Core responsibilities include troubleshooting issues, configuration and testing to implement solutions to drive adoption and ease of use.
Provide subject matter expertise on and participate in enhancement design and scoping
Develop and articulate solution options that incorporate user experience, scalability, security and best practices.
Partner with the customers to develop test strategy, test scenarios/scripts, as well as execute systems/E2E testing in preparation for user acceptance testing.
Collaborate with the People/ HR Team, other product development groups and Workday product
experts to identify and define solutions for complex business requirements.
Basic Qualifications
4+ years of proven experience in Workday HCM implementations/ development, testing, configuration, and deployment.
Proficient in creating Workday custom reports, Security roles, domain access.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to author and present materials ranging from detailed technical specifications to high-level presentations.
Technical Acumen working in a Corporate Technology environment
Bachelors or Master's degree.
