Workday Absence and Time Tracking Principal Consultant

The Workday Absence and Time Tracking Principal Consultant is a key member of the delivery team, bridging the gap between the business and technical teams by providing complex Workday inter-system solutions. They will guide clients through the transformation, implementation, and operation phases of a Workday implementation.

Responsibilities:

• Guide clients through facilitated design sessions and configuration decisions based on best practice, experience, and an understanding of the client’s unique business requirements.

• Engage and support the client through all phases of the project, ensuring a smooth transition from legacy systems to the Workday Time Tracking, Absence and Scheduling applications.

• Deliver high-quality work product with minimal oversight, while regularly keeping the client, the project team and the Engagement Manager updated on project progress and potential changes.

• Willingness to play a functional leadership role on a project, or as a Cognizant or Workday product Partner Lead and/or Delivery Assurance Reviewer.

• Leverage hands-on expertise Workday, including loading client data, migrating configuration from tenant to tenant, and configuring business processes and security.

• Utilize your technical aptitude to convert and map data sources into data conversion templates.

• Act as a mentor to fellow consultants, including providing support for shadow assignments.

• Actively participate in internal opportunities to share your skills and learnings with others within the organization.

• Additional duties as assigned by manager.

Skills & Requirements:

• 2-5 years Human Resources, Payroll, or Time Tracking and Absence software experience required

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

• 2+ years of Workday functional implementation experience preferred. Workday TimeTracking and Absence certification is preferred, but not required. 

• Proven experience gathering business requirements, designing and prototyping, testing, and implementing practical business solutions under multiple deadlines preferred  

• Experienced with MS Office products; specifically Excel, Word and PowerPoint. 

• Minimal travel required, but must be willing to travel on-site if needed

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Why choose Cognizant:

• Entrepreneurial environment that welcomes your ideas
• Opportunity to do great work
• Outreach programs that support communities and tap into your volunteer spirit
• Learning opportunities to help current needs and advancement
• Global operations, with opportunities in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific
• An abundance of Affinity groups to meet your needs

Cognizant Core Values:

• Start with a point of view: I apply my expertise to gain trust and to lead our clients forward.
• Seek data, build knowledge: I use facts to guide my actions and decisions.
• Always strive, never settle: I act with agility and creativity, determined to stay one step ahead.
• Work as one: I deliver solutions that draw upon the full power and scale of Cognizant.
• Create conditions for everyone to thrive: I include, enable, and invest in everyone around me.
• Do the right thing, the right way: I always make the ethical choice.