Sr. Payroll Functional Consultant - Workday Success Plans

About the Team

Were obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, were shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, youll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. Were in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun?drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, youll do meaningful work with Workmates whove got your back. In return, well give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, youve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Role

We are seeking people who love to help customers overcome HR technology challenges and who feel rewarded by driving high levels of customer satisfaction. The ideal candidate helps people to understand tough concepts, facilitating collaboration on effective solutions. Our focus is on helping customers to get the most value from their Workday investment through the delivery of a variety of innovative services.

Our team members :

Confidently and consistently provide excellent customer service

Engage customers to quickly understand business requirements

Share their broad experience with industry practices

Adapt and succeed independently in challenging situations

Develop and demonstrate system configuration solutions, articulating product capabilities, plus the benefits and risks of design decisions

Support multiple customers concurrently on short duration projects

Enjoy the reward of helping customers to be more self?sufficient, to stabilize and optimize their Workday applications and to learn about new features. Team members say the variety of services and unexpected challenges keeps the job exciting and fresh.

Find that the highly collaborative nature of this team helps them to be productive and to demonstrate their strengths every day

Share expertise with customers on a variety of Ask?an?Expert requests by :

Conducting research to ensure understanding of customer questions and related Workday concepts.

Delivering small scope consulting in response to customer requests; providing configuration guidance, demonstrations, considerations, tips & tricks.

Troubleshooting product configuration to resolve or provide optimal product configuration to meet customer business requirements.

Clearly and effectively communicating responses and value to customers.

Partner with an Engagement Manager to deliver services that include :

Feature Adoption Workshops (Facilitate customer Workday feature roadmap discussions)

Functional Review (Tenant Review with Consulting Services)

Health Check (Tenant Review with Cross Functional Consulting Services)

Additional Services that our consultants deliver include :

Collaboration Crews (Facilitate group customer sharing discussions)

Accelerator Webinars (Creating and delivering customer presentations on how to use Workday features to achieve business goals)

Feature Accelerator (Providing one?on?one consulting guidance to accelerate customer feature adoption)

Feature Adoption Tenant Reviews (Reviewing customer tenants to identify adoption opportunities)

About You

Basic Qualifications - Senior Functional Consultant - Payroll

5 + years of Human Capital Management software and consulting experience on medium or large enterprise HRIS projects, or applicable practitioner deployment experience

5 + years of experience with the following product area : Payroll

3+ years of Workday Consulting experience or experience as a Workday SME

Other Qualifications

Demonstrates a solid grasp of HR related systems and processes. Able to gain a detailed understanding of Workday concepts and new feature releases in Core HCM, areas of expertise and cross application features.

Certified or ability to certify in Workday HCM products and to effectively deploy the solutions

Experience with influencing, interacting and collaborating with senior leaders, internally and externally

Capable of leading and influencing design meetings toward an effective and collaborative outcome

Ability to deliver and get results while managing to a project plan

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Experience with global implementations is preferred

The ability to work on multiple engagements simultaneously

Strong critical thinking skills so as to understand complex, technical process issues and facilitate / influence decision making

Bachelors degree or related experience required

Ability to travel up to 10%

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role?specific commission / bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidates compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workdays comprehensive benefits, please click here.

Primary Location : USA.IL.ChicagoPrimary Location Base Pay Range : $122,800 USD - $184,200 USDAdditional US Location(s) Base Pay Range : $111,100 USD - $197,300 USD

Additional Considerations :

If performed in Colorado, the pay range for this job is $116,900 - $175,400 USD based on min and max pay range for that role if performed in CO.

The application deadline for this role is the same as the posting end date stated as below :

10 / 30 / 2025

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work, were combining the best of both worlds : in?person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in?office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means youll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote home office roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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