Workday Consultant (AMS/Post-Production - Payroll, Absence, or Time Tracking/PATT Certified required) Remote

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Strada is currently recruiting for a Workday Consultant - Payroll, Absence and Time Tracking within our Cloud Optimization Practice area. We have an ever-expanding business pipeline and are seeking suitably skilled and interested candidates to help us build our practice in line with the growth of the Workday ecosystem.

As a Workday Functional Consultant, you will play a key role as part of an industry-leading team, helping to drive results for our clients by delivering innovative and effective solutions within our Professional Services business group.

Location is primarily home-based with travel to client sites (up to 20%)
 

Workday Consultant - Payroll, Absence and Time Tracking

The Role

• Analyzes, defines and documents complex business requirements and processes relating to functional area of expertise.
• Assist and/or lead design and review existing or new functionality/configuration with technical and functional resources at all levels, including members of management.
• Understands the scope and details of project plan and is able to identify and communicate the need for resources for tasks or assigned areas of responsibility.
• Manages multiple, parallel projects/tasks using exceptional organizational and time management techniques to successfully complete tasks in a timely manner.
• Manages Workday projects/tasks through the various lifecycle stages, from business need through design and delivery.
• Provide guidance and thought leadership on how skillset and capability can help resolve client needs and actively participate in all phases of the Workday life cycle.
• Monitors progress of tasks against plan, and reports status to leadership on project issues.
• Establishes and maintains client relationships.  Communicates client feedback to leadership as appropriate.
• Suggest improvements and proactively address issues.  Answers all inquiries by established deadlines.
• Demonstrates knowledge relating to Workday functional area and participates in training and development initiatives to keep abreast of current trends and practices.
• Contributes to knowledge management capital through activities such as sharing documented lessons learned, Q&A, documented deliverables, and regularly posting best practices and knowledge sharing information to the internal info sharing site.
• Understands quality standards for own work and monitors and manages work of team members, providing feedback as appropriate.
• Completes assigned tasks in prescribed timelines consistent with deliverables and asks for support and direction as appropriate. 
• Understands the scope and details of project plan and is able to identify and communicate the need for resources for tasks or assigned areas of responsibility.
• May provide guidance, instruction, direction, and leadership to other team members.

The Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in technical, business, or financial discipline or relevant field of study required.
• 3 plus years previous experience implementing and/or configuring Workday Payroll, Absence and/or Time Tracking. Prior experience may include PeopleSoft, SAP, ADP, Oracle E-Business, Ultipro or other SaaS software solutions. However, Workday deployment and/or post-production experience required.
• Previous consulting experience either as an internal consultant or with a consulting/software organization is preferred.
• Possesses strong facilitation/presentation skills.
• Experience in transforming business requirements into complex system configurations.
• Ability to be effectively and actively engaged on multiple, parallel projects.  Time management and organizational skills are required for success.
• Demonstrates ability to prioritize conflicting demands with little supervision.
• Demonstrates strong work ethics, setting an example for others.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills.
• Proficient to advanced MS Excel Skills to be used to