Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kainos is a company focused on creating real impact through innovative digital services and cutting-edge Workday solutions. The Workday Payroll Consultant will implement and configure Workday solutions for global customers, build relationships, and provide guidance while supporting junior team members.
Responsibilities
- Implement and configure enterprise-scale Workday solutions for global customer base
- Build relationships with customers, shaping and delivering solutions that are aligned to customer needs, fit for purpose and commercially viable
- Provide excellent guidance to customers, understanding their business and requirements
- Support junior members of the team and share knowledge with them
Skills
- At least 2-3 years of Workday Payroll implementation experience
- At least 2 years configuring Workday Payroll implementation from E2E with the last 3 years
- Certification in Workday United States Payroll
- The ability to build complex payroll calculations
- Experience with multiple positions
- Experience with implementing multiple FEIN's
- Strong understanding of state taxes, local taxes, and FLSA calculations
- An understanding of Workday Payroll, US Payroll, Time Tracking and Absence products and the interdependencies with Benefits, Time Tracking and Absence as well as other cross functional capabilities
- Experience with Payroll regulatory requirements (Tax, Garnishments, Common Pay Master), retirement benefits (401K etc.), payroll processing, Unions/Collective Bargaining Agreements and payroll accounting
- Excellent customer focus, able to assess customer needs, build relationships and manage customer expectations
- Strong communicator, able to communicate with customers and colleagues with impact, credibility and empathy, including in a remote working situation
- Sound ability to formally present to senior Client audiences
- Strong commercial awareness and full understanding of project and business dynamics
- Broad business and technology understanding and a good awareness of industry trends in either Human Resource management, Financials or Enterprise Resource Planning or Payroll
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and make sensible decisions under pressure taking a balanced view of Customer demands and Kainos commercials
- Ability to widen and maintain a network of external contacts
- Strong consulting skills e.g. presenting, leading workshops, demonstrating and explaining complex functionality or solutions to customers
- Willing to participate in PATT team internal discussions and help where possible
- Willing and able to act as a role model within the capability and mentor and/or line manage more junior consultants
- Willing to assist AMS with questions related to your subject area
- Able to implement improvements in tools and/or processes to help the practice
- Commercial understanding of utilization within a services organization and the importance of these targets
- Able to rotate through various Workday delivery services
- Able, if required, to travel to customer sites in the same region (minimal out of region travel may also be required)
- Workday United States Payroll Certified required
- Professional qualifications in your area of expertise (Certified Payroll Professional (CPP))
- Experience in post deployment services
Company Overview
Kainos provides digital services, software solutions, and IT consulting to help organizations transform operations and customer. It was founded in 1986, and is headquartered in Belfast, Belfast, GBR, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.kainos.com.