HCM Senior Principal Consultant - Federal

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About the Role

We are looking for a seasoned Workday expert who will fill the role of a Senior Principal HCM Consultant on our US Federal Government Professional Services team. Preferred experience and ability to implement these functional areas: Core HR, Compensation, Benefits, Recruiting, and Time Tracking

This role will serve as a senior advisor to project teams, customers, prospects, using their deep product, platform, and deployment expertise to:

• Lead the effort to build Workday Federal specific collateral – including pre-configuration, industry solutions, and accelerators
• Drive industry strategy, solutions, and standards within the organization
• Collaborate closely with Solution Enablement and Product Management on critical enhancement reports
• Provide recommended workarounds where no delivered solution exists
• Engage in critical or urgent industry challenges
• Support the sales team on strategic pursuits

The ideal candidate for this position will have a strong background in one or more functional areas of Workday, have experience leading internal Workday initiatives to build Industry specific collateral, exhibit a creative approach to problem solving, have technical and product proficiency and a gift for finding the details that matter. 

The Senior Principal HCM Consultant will also work with Workday Deployment Partners in an Advisory capacity on Partner led deployments.

This is a senior level position that requires strong technical, interpersonal, communication and leadership skills, and business discernment.  The candidate must be self-motivated and have the ability and perspective to understand, balance and prioritize the demands of multiple internal initiatives and customer projects. 

Key Areas of Responsibility:

            Project Guidance

• Drive both high-level and detailed product and solution discussions with customers, partners and internal team members (e.g. Product Management, Support, Customer Success, Delivery, Consulting)
• Work with project teams to identify alternate solutions when product gaps exist and will not be resolved by future deployment in a timely manner
• Achieve utilization with an intentional, strategic focus that furthers industry strategy and success

           

            Sales Support

• Assist Services Executive with SOW’s and project estimates where applicable
• Review proposed timelines and resources plans to identify potential challenges in the deployment
• Support the Product Qualification process with review/analysis of potential gaps in product functionality and by providing suggestions on s