Workday Payroll Technical & Functional Consultant (Remote)

An entertainment organization is seeking a Workday Payroll Technical & Functional Consultant to support payroll implementation, configuration, integrations, reporting, and production support in a remote setting. This role combines deep Workday Payroll functional expertise with technical knowledge to ensure accurate, compliant, and efficient payroll operations.

About the Opportunity

Schedule: Monday to Friday, standard business hours. Setting: Remote.

Responsibilities

• Gather and analyze payroll and time tracking requirements
• Configure Workday Payroll components, including earnings, deductions, garnishments, taxes, pay groups, pay components, payroll calendars, and payroll input
• Support payroll business process configuration, parallel testing, user acceptance testing, and production deployment
• Troubleshoot payroll calculation issues and provide ongoing production support and issue resolution
• Build and maintain Workday integrations, reports, calculated fields, and security configurations
• Perform other duties, as needed

Qualifications

• 4 to 10+ years of Workday experience
• 3 to 7+ years of Workday Payroll implementation and support experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Human Resources, Finance, or a related field
• Experience with at least one full-cycle Workday Payroll implementation
• Experience supporting production Workday Payroll environments

Skills

• Workday Payroll Certification
• Workday HCM Certification
• Workday Integrations Certification
• Workday Reporting Certification
• Workday Studio Certification
• Experience with Workday Studio, Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), core connectors, Workday Web Services, REST and SOAP APIs, XML, XSLT, and XPath
• Experience with Workday report writer, advanced reports, matrix reports, composite reports, trending reports, BIRT reporting, dashboards, Prism Analytics, and discovery boards
• Experience with payroll vendor, banking, tax, benefit provider, and middleware integrations
• Experience with payroll accounting, auditing, reconciliation, gross-to-net calculations, tax withholding, direct deposit, retro payroll, off-cycle payroll, and year-end processing
• Experience in Agile or Scrum environments
• Experience with JIRA, ServiceNow, Azure DevOps, or similar tools