Sr Payroll Consultant: State & Local Government

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** About the Role
** The Sr Payroll Consultant will be tasked with ensuring the successful implementation of the Workday Payroll solution. The Sr Payroll Consultant will provide Workday product and implementation expertise to their engagements. They will work with their clients to understand their business requirements and help configure and test the Workday solution. The Sr Consultant will take direction and provide status to the Engagement Manager assigned to their project.

Become a specialist in the Workday Payroll product suite

Perform the following on a customer engagement:o   Elicit and document customer business requirement so   Configure the Workday solution to meet requirement so   Document solutions for the client to reference in the future.o   Support the client and data conversion teams in converting legacy data into Workdayo   Support the integration teams in helping to configure and test integrations between Workday and third party/custom solution so   Assist the client in testing the Workday solutiono   Transfer Workday system knowledge to the customer to ensure customer satisfaction in their production environment.o   

Communicate regularly with the project engagement manager regarding forecasting hours, time reporting, projects risks, and mitigations.o   Work with Delivery Assurance to ensure compliance with agreed to checkpoint so   Help mentor new Consultant so   Find opportunities to position other service offering so   Participate in update training and other events that help share one’s product skills with other consultants
** About You
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* Basic Qualifications:

Sr Payroll Consultant (P4)
*** Experience (6+ years) implementing Payroll and Human Capital Management solutions
* Previous consulting experience (6+ years) with a consulting/software company
* ** Experience (6+ years) implementing Workday, SAP, Oracle, People Soft, ADP or similar applications
*** Experience (6+ years) with the following functional areas:
Payroll, Time & Labor, Labor Costing, Labor Allocation, Payroll Accounting, HCM business process, Benefits, Absence Management, Compensation, Performance Management
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* Basic Qualifications:

Principal Payroll Consultant (P5)
*** Experience (8+ years) implementing Payroll and Human Capital Management solutions
* Previous consulting experience (8+ years) with a consulting/software company
* ** Experience (8+ years) implementing Workday
*** Experience (8+ years) with the following functional areas:
Payroll, Time & Labor, Labor Costing, Labor Allocation, Payroll Accounting, HCM business process, Benefits, Absence Management, Compensation,…