Workday Payroll Consultant (US/Global)

This is a remote position.

Workday Payroll Consultant (US/Global)

Job Details

• Employment Type: Contract
• Work Mode: Remote
• Location: Offshore
• Total Experience Required: 5 to 8 years
• Relevant Experience Required: 4+ years of dedicated implementation and configuration experience within Workday Payroll
• Mandatory Certification: Workday Certified Payroll (US, Canada, or Global Payroll)

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Workday Payroll Consultant to design, configure, and optimize our global enterprise payroll operations. The ideal candidate will bridge complex corporate accounting, regional tax mandates, and compensation data into precise, automated, and secure cloud calculation pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Configure and manage core Workday Payroll components, including earning and deduction codes, calculation rules, payroll runs, and deduction frequencies.
• Design and maintain tax configuration structures, setting up automated multi-state, federal, or localized statutory tax authorities and compliance profiles.
• Construct complex payroll accounting tables, mapping payroll run transactions directly to the general ledger (GL) and resolving costing balance anomalies.
• Build advanced business process (BP) rules for payroll routing, configuring conditional validation checks to catch processing errors, off-cycle events, and gross-to-net variances.
• Govern compliance and settlement runs, setting up bank integration lines for direct deposit, electronic fund transfers (EFT), positive pay, and processing check printing structures.
• Support tax filing and year-end procedures, running balance adjustments, processing statutory adjustments (e.g., W-2, T4 summaries), and troubleshooting quarter-end reporting anomalies.
• Lead upgrade evaluation runs for biannual platform releases, executing rigorous regression test suites inside payroll sandboxes to prevent calculation failures.

Requirements

• 5 to 8 years of enterprise payroll engine technology experience, with 4+ dedicated years actively designing, building, and maintaining Workday Payroll modules.
• Strong technical mastery of Workday Payroll calculation engine logic, cumulative tracking fields, processing configurations, and calculated fields.
• Deep structural understanding of gross-to-net calculation pipelines, tax reciprocity matrices, pre/post-tax deduction limits, and compliance frameworks.
• Mandatory certification: Workday Certified Payroll (US, Canada, or Global Payroll).

Preferred Qualifications

• Workday Certified Core HCM certification.
• Prior consulting or enterprise experience managing multi-entity payroll transitions or deploying Workday alongside external international payroll providers via Cloud Connect for Third-Party Payroll (CCPP).