Workday Time Tracking & Absence Senior Lead Consultant

About the role

As a Workday Time Tracking & Absence Consultant at Kainos, you will work in a team to implement and configure enterprise-scale Workday solutions for our global customer base. Typically, you will lead a project workstream, build relationships with customers, shape and deliver solutions aligned to customer needs, and provide excellent guidance to customers.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with customers and shape solutions aligned to customer needs.
• Provide excellent guidance to customers, understanding their business and requirements.
• Support more junior members of the team and share knowledge with them.
• Lead a functional workstream on a prime implementation throughout the full project lifecycle.
• Become an acknowledged subject matter expert, such as a Workday Product Lead.
• Act as a role model within the capability and mentor and/or line manage more junior consultants.
• Support the sales process including the production of estimates for the delivery of work packages.
• Implement improvements in tools and/or processes to help the practice.
• Willing and able to rotate through various Workday delivery services, specifically Consulting and Application Management Services.

Requirements

• At least 2-3 years of Workday Time Tracking and Absence implementation experience.
• At least 2 years of Workday Time Tracking and Absence configuration experience in the last 3 years.
• Certification in Workday Time Tracking and Absence.
• Strong understanding of Workday products either Time Tracking or Absence as well as any other specialist Capability.
• Excellent customer focus, able to assess customer needs, build relationships and manage customer expectations.
• Sound ability to formally present to senior Client audiences.
• Strong communicator, able to communicate with customers and colleagues with impact, credibility and empathy, including in a remote working situation.
• 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.
• Able 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.
• Sound ability 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, specifically Consulting and Application Management Services.

Qualifications

• Professional Qualifications in Your Area Of Expertise.

Skills

• People Management: Your role may or may not involve managing people. If you do, your responsibilities may include agreeing, setting and reviewing your and your team’s goals aligned to Kainos, Workday BU and your Capability, providing support so that your and your team’s goals can be achieved, reviewing and refining goals for relevance and to keep performance on track, reviewing performance against goals and providing feedback, conducting 1:1 monthly and/or project completion feedback meetings, requesting and providing regular feedback in Workday, completing End of Year reviews and agreeing the outcomes for the year, identifying training to support your and your team’s development, pursuing and supporting your and your team members’ career paths and progression, reviewing weekly workload forecasting (staff allocations and timesheet checks) and utilization, actively being involved in recruitment/interviews, reviewing attrition and retention metrics, and embracing our differences.