Workday Payroll Consultant (US/Global)

This is a remote position.

• 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)
  

• 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).
  

• 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).