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This role will serve as the primary functional subject matter expert for Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence, helping align the organization’s existing Workday environment with a new financial ERP platform.\nThis is a remote consulting opportunity for an experienced Workday professional who can lead functional design, configuration assessment, testing, deployment, and stabilization activities. The selected consultant will partner closely with HRIS, Payroll, Finance, Benefits, business stakeholders, Digital teams, integration resources, and implementation partners throughout the project lifecycle.\nPer contract requirements, candidates must be U.S. Citizens or Green Card Holders.\nResponsibilities\nLead the Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence workstream for the ERP harmonization program.\nGuide requirements, future-state design, configuration, and best-practice decisions.\nLead testing, payroll validation, defect resolution, and stakeholder sign-off.\nCoordinate integrations and dependencies across HR, Payroll, Finance, Benefits, Digital, and implementation teams.\nSupport cutover, hypercare, stabilization, documentation, and knowledge transfer.\nQualifications\n8+ years of Workday functional experience with expertise in Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence.\nExperience leading requirements, design, testing, deployment, and stabilization for large ERP or transformation programs.\nStrong knowledge of payroll processes, integrations, and upstream and downstream system impacts.\nExcellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills across business and technical teams.\nPreferred Qualifications\nWorkday Payroll experience involving acquisitions, consolidations, or migrations into an existing tenant.\nKnowledge of unionized workforces, complex pay practices, or Canadian payroll requirements.\nExperience in the energy, utilities, manufacturing, or industrial sector.\n Compensation\nThe compensation for this role as a consultant starts at $80/hour, based on experience and qualifications. This rate is subject to change.\nBenefits vary by compensation type and may include paid time off (PTO), medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, a 401(k) plan, and additional optional benefits.\n4 Reasons to Join The Squires Group, Inc.: 1. Our Commitment to You - We offer competitive pay, multi-year projects, and a list of exciting clients.2. Work-Life Balance - We work hard; we work smart and have quality time for family and \"life.\" 3. Golden Rule - We treat our consultants the way we want to be treated: with integrity, professionalism, and trust.4. We Care About You - We help you meet your career goals and continuously support your efforts in the field. Check out our Referral Program!The Squires Group will pay you for every qualified professional that you refer and we place. If you see a position posted by The Squires Group and know the perfect person for the job, please send us your referral. For more information, go to https://bit.ly/squiresreferral.\n The Squires Group, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3274,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Life insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-13T20:49:20Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":60,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.596,"p_room":1,"age_days":5,"expected_fill_days":33,"reasons":["conf:2","agency","urgency","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-19T05:45:15Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":160000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/squiresgroup-workday-payroll-time-absence-functional-lead","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/squiresgroup-workday-payroll-time-absence-functional-lead.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-19T09:33:53Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":6772,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-20T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4423153},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4423153"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsquiresgroup-workday-payroll-time-absence-functional-lead"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fsquiresgroup-workday-payroll-time-absence-functional-lead"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fsquiresgroup-workday-payroll-time-absence-functional-lead"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/squiresgroup-workday-payroll-time-absence-functional-lead\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsquiresgroup-workday-payroll-time-absence-functional-lead"}]}