Workday Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking Senior Principal Consultant–Global AMS (Application Managed Services)

The Workday Payroll, Absence, Time Tracking Senior Principal Consultant – Global Application Managed Services (AMS) is a well experienced post-production professional who is dynamic, fast-paced, and familiar with the managed services construct. As a Workday Senior Principal Consultant (Payroll, Absence, Time Tracking), you will bring your functional skills, ability to keep the business context in sight, and roll-up-your-sleeves work ethic to a team with a positive, can-do attitude, a collaborative culture, and a passion for helping our clients to be successful. 

Responsibilities: 

• Onshore functional lead who leads HCM workstream for the assigned set of accounts in the Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking track. 

• Apply and execute various AMS & Implementation methodologies/activities in these AMS engagements. 

• Should collaboratively work with the GDC team on day -day activities, incidents, root cause analysis and other work requests. 

• Provides on-call support and holiday coverage as required. 

• Deep knowledge in SLA constructs and adherence 

• Coordinate with external and internal stakeholders to create high business impact. 

• Contribute to the operational efficiency of the Workday practice. 

• Proactively identify and develop reporting dashboards to improve Workday utilization, creating solutions that support metrics for HCM and the business at large. 

• Work with clients to identify/resolve all issues that could impact project scope and/or timeframe. 

• Maintain the Workday platform with a focus on reporting (including scheduled reports), business process maintenance, security administration, data loads and data audits. 

• Ensures system design fits the needs of the user.  

• Comfortable with leading multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, prioritize tasks effectively, and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.  

• Ability to ensure team delivers the project deliverables on time and do consistent timely reminders with vendors and project team. 

• Drive continual business processes improvements throughout the organization. 

• Lead a team of Workday consultants across multiple engagements. 

 

Skills & Requirements: 

• A Bachelor’s degree (preferably in Computer Science or Engineering) or equivalent experience 

• Certification in Workday Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking is required 

• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in Workday Payroll, Absence, & Time Tracking 

• Able to multitask and perform a variety of duties. 

• Good communication and interpersonal skills 

• Willingness to go the extra mile to solve customer problems. 

• Good Analytical skills with ability to solve complex incidents, provide suggestions/best practices. 

 

Salary and Other Compensation

Applications will be accepted until 01/4/2026 The annual salary for this position is between $128,093 - $192,140 depending on the experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate. This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program , based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applica