Workday Payroll Consultant – US/Global

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Configure and oversee essential Workday Payroll components, including earning and deduction codes, calculation rules, payroll cycles, and deduction frequencies.

• Design and uphold tax configuration structures for multi-state, federal, or localized statutory tax authorities and compliance profiles.

• Develop payroll accounting tables that map payroll transactions to the general ledger and address costing balance discrepancies.

• Establish business process rules for payroll routing and set up validation checks for processing errors, off-cycle events, and gross-to-net variances.

• Manage compliance and settlement runs, including bank integration lines for direct deposit, EFT, positive pay, and check issuance.

• Assist with tax filing and year-end procedures, encompassing balance adjustments, statutory adjustments such as W-2 and T4 summaries, and troubleshooting quarter-end reporting.

• Lead upgrade evaluation runs for biannual platform releases and carry out regression test suites in payroll sandboxes.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5 to 8 years of experience with enterprise payroll engine technology.

• 4+ years of specialized experience in designing, building, and maintaining Workday Payroll modules.

• Strong technical expertise in Workday Payroll calculation engine logic, cumulative tracking fields, processing configurations, and calculated fields.

• Comprehensive understanding of gross-to-net calculation pipelines, tax reciprocity matrices, pre/post-tax deduction limits, and compliance frameworks.

• Workday Certified Payroll certification (US, Canada, or Global Payroll) is required.

• Workday Certified Core HCM certification is preferred.

• Previous consulting or enterprise experience in managing multi-entity payroll transitions or deploying Workday alongside external international payroll providers via Cloud Connect for Third-Party Payroll (CCPP) is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote position.

• Contract employment.

• Workday Certified Payroll certification requirement (professional credential).