Workday Certified Payroll Lead - Health & Public Service

Accenture Workday Certified Payroll Lead

We are Accenture, a global professional services company, searching for a Workday Certified Payroll Lead. This individual will be part of a team of advisory professionals focused on cloud-based data-reporting operations that integrate and optimize the essential corporate functions of finance, analytics, planning and HR. For many of our clients, successfully getting their data operations into cloud environments is a major focus. The enterprise data-reporting software of Workday is a critical component of many of the cloud solutions we design, which is why Accenture has assembled a team of more than 2,000 Workday-certified professionals.

Help HR and finance leaders define and execute their strategy and give them the adaptability they need in a fast-changing world. To help you take your skillset beyond Workday technology, our Transformation Powered by Workday Training will help you take your consulting to a whole new level. Take your Workday skills and career to the next level, mastering complex projects while expanding your leadership and advisory skills with a market-leading team.

As a Workday Payroll Lead, your primary responsibilities may include:

• Lead or support the Payroll workstream on a Workday implementation project.
• Support the creation of workplans for large complex global engagements, owning risk, budget, resources, client relationship, etc.
• Researching and resolving day to day Workday Payroll issues
• Work with client to support the new requirements for Payroll in Workday
• Creating and updating Workday configurations based on requirement changes
• Provide support for regular and special Payroll processes in Workday
• Provide support for legal and regulatory reports in Workday
• Provide support for year-end reporting and other year-end activities in Workday
• Manage small on and off-shore functional teams
• Identify strategies, risks, and options, recommend approaches and mitigations to meet client/functional requirements
• Architect Workday Payroll solutions to ensure that all work streams are cohesive and cross functional impacts are considered and mitigated
• Advise clients on industry standards and leading practices
• Demonstrate design options through the use of prototyping
• Understand and apply Workday and Accenture methodologies
• Provide the Project Manager with status updates and keep them apprised of overall project status
• Demonstrate strong client and stakeholder management to achieve project objectives
• Support innovation through the creation of new industry leading methods and assets

Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Here's what you need:

• Workday Partner Certification
• Minimum of 3 years of consulting experience, most recently in a Sr. Consultant, or similar level role
• Minimum of 3 years of Workday Payroll Implementations
• Minimum of 1 year of Health & Public Service experience
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years work experience). If Associate's Degree must have equivalent minimum 6 year work experience.

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience in Canadian Payroll processing
• Workday Canadian PATT experience
• Strong US Payroll process knowledge
• Demonstrate knowledge of the HR function & processes
• Experience with Payroll software such as ADP GlobalView, (SAP), Ceridian, ADP eTime, PeopleSoft, Workday, Oracle or Ultimate

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience.

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