Senior Workday Implementation Specialist

Senior Workday Implementation Specialist

About Remote Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. All positions are fully remote.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best‑in‑class HR platform. If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world.

Join Remote as a Senior Workday Implementation Specialist. You will implement and integrate new customers onto our Remote Global Payroll platform where Workday serves as the core HCM system, ensuring accuracy, compliance and seamless delivery within agreed timescales.

• Proven experience implementing or integrating Workday HCM, ideally within a global payroll or HRIS context.
• Strong understanding of Workday modules including Core HCM, Compensation, Absence, Time Tracking, and Integrations.
• Experience delivering end‑to‑end payroll implementations using Workday as the source of truth for HR and employee data.
• Demonstrated ability to map and validate data between Workday and external payroll systems, ensuring compliance and data accuracy.
• Excellent understanding of global payroll operations, statutory compliance, and multi‑country payroll setup.
• Strong customer onboarding and project management experience for complex, multi‑entity implementations.
• Advanced data management and analysis skills (Google Sheets or Excel).
• Analytical, detail‑oriented mindset with strong problem‑solving abilities.
• Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced, international environment with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Strong communication and relationship‑building skills with a customer‑first mindset.
• Self‑starter, comfortable working independently and asynchronously across time zones.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken).
• Experience working remotely is a plus.
• Familiarity with , Notion, Slack, and Salesforce is a plus.
• Knowledge of other payroll platforms is a plus.

• Lead end‑to‑end Workday payroll integrations for large and complex customers, ensuring successful setup, data migration and go‑live.
• Serve as the primary technical and functional point of contact for customers implementing Remote’s Global Payroll integrated with Workday.
• Analyze customers’ Workday environments to understand data structures, configurations and dependencies for integration into Remote’s systems.
• Manage data extraction, transformation and validation between Workday and Remote’s Global Payroll platform.
• Partner closely with customers’ HRIS, Payroll and IT teams to align HCM‑to‑Payroll data flows, ensuring accurate configuration and compliance.
• Configure Remote’s Payroll system on a customer‑by‑customer basis, ensuring adherence to local regulations and tax requirements.
• Coordinate and validate parallel payroll runs, reconciliations and year‑to‑date adjustments to confirm set‑up accuracy.
• Oversee payroll go‑live readiness, ensuring all integrations, validations and compliance checks are complete.
• Transition customers to Payroll Operations teams with complete and accurate configuration documentation.
• Provide training and guidance to customers on Workday integration processes, data mapping and payroll best practices.
• Maintain strong customer relationships to drive satisfaction, adoption and retention.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying opportunities for automation, scalability and process optimisation.
• Maintain confidentiality and integrity of customer and employee data at all times.
• Participate in quality assurance reviews of peer implementations to ensure consistency and compliance with Remote’s standards.
• Support the creation and maintenance of Workday integration playbooks and internal process documentation.

Report to:
Manager, Global Payroll Implementations
Team:
Global Payroll Implementations

Location:

Remote (fully remote)

Start date:

ASAP

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