Senior HR Systems Consultant - Configuration - Remote

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Organization:

HR WD Sustainment

Job Summary:

The Workday Functional Configuration Consultant serves on the HR Sustainment team, acting as a trusted internal consultant to business stakeholders. This role partners closely with internal clients to analyze needs, recommend appropriate Workday solutions, and configure system changes that support business objectives while ensuring there are no negative downstream impacts to payroll, benefits, time tracking, or other integrated systems.

With a primary functional focus on Absence Management, the consultant works directly with the absence business team to support requests such as new PTO plans, corrections, and process improvements. Rather than simply executing changes, this role consults with and influences the business, helping stakeholders understand system capabilities, tradeoffs, and the most effective, future‑proof approach to meeting their needs. Requests may originate from both business partners and IT.

The consultant plays a key role in Workday service updates and bi‑annual releases, proactively reviewing new functionality to assess impacts to the Absence module and related processes. Responsibilities include testing new features, documenting and flagging risks or concerns, providing feedback to Workday when necessary, and clearly presenting changes and enhancements to business partners to support informed decision‑making.

Hours: 8:00am - 5:00pm local time, Monday - Friday

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Preferred Skills & Experience

• 3+ years of hands‑on Workday configuration experience, supporting production environments in an HR sustainment or consulting capacity
• Strong functional expertise in the Workday Absence module, including configuration, troubleshooting, and ongoing enhancements
• Experience evaluating and translating business requirements into system enhancements, with a solid understanding of downstream impacts and system dependencies
• Working knowledge of the Workday Performance module, including configuration and sustainment support
• Client‑facing experience, with the ability to consult, influence, and communicate effectively with technical and non‑technical stakeholders

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide project management and support for new systems implementations, systems upgrades, annual system updates, and system enhancements.
• Act as a departmental representative in the planning, development, and implementation of various systems partnering with appropriate Information Technology teams and/or software vendors as necessary.
• Develop the expertise in the departmental use of automated applications and serves as the point of contact for end users on proposed process and application changes.
• Consult with customers to conduct analysis on business processes to help identify needs and facilitate finding solutions to those needs.
• Proactively identify customer strength and weaknesses and suggest areas of business process improvement.
• Propose solutions to problems and consider timeliness, effectiveness, and practicality in addressing customer needs.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation on computer-based information systems; compile documentation for design changes and creation criteria.
• Trouble-shoot technical issues and user issues, while interacting with the software vendor
• Coordinate the testing and implementation of various patch upgrades, gather data, perform analysis of information, develop conclusions, and communicate recommendations to all levels within the organization.
• Apply statistically sound analytic methods during this process, where applicable.
• As a senior consultant, this position is also responsible to provide training as well as guide and mentor new or less experienced teammates to be successful and should possess a solid understanding of HR data and reporting.

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