Workday Functional consultant (Finance, US Payroll, Absence & Time Tracking, Reporting & Prism Analytics)

Bean HR Consulting · Gurugram, India

Job Description: Workday Functional Consultant – Finance / US Payroll / Absence & Time Tracking / Reporting & Prism

Experience Required: 5–20 Years

Job Location: Bangalore / Pune / Gurgaon / Noida / Mumbai

Shift: Rotational Shift – Noon / Evening / Global Time Zones

Modules: Workday Finance, US Payroll, Absence & Time Tracking, Reporting & Prism Analytics

What Can You Expect?

• Plan and prioritize work across different phases of the Workday implementation, upgrade, and support lifecycle.
• Lead or manage Workday implementations, enhancements, upgrades, and production support engagements.
• Gather business requirements, perform functional analysis, and translate requirements into scalable Workday solutions.
• Configure and support end-to-end Workday business processes based on the relevant functional module.
• Support integrations, data conversion, reporting, testing, UAT, go-live, and post-production stabilization.
• Work closely with Engagement Managers, Project Managers, technical teams, and client stakeholders to ensure successful delivery.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and issues proactively and ensure timely resolution.
• Own functional solutioning and provide guidance to junior consultants and team members.

Module-Specific Responsibilities:

1. Workday Finance

• Configure and support Workday Financial Management processes.
• Experience across areas such as General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Banking, Expenses, Customer Accounts, Supplier Accounts, and Financial Accounting.
• Gather requirements and design solutions for financial business processes.
• Configure business processes, security, accounting structures, worktags, ledgers, journals, and financial reporting.
• Support financial data conversion, reconciliation, testing, and month-end/year-end processes.
• Work with integrations and third-party financial systems.
• Support Workday releases, enhancements, and production issues.

2. Workday US Payroll

• Configure and support end-to-end Workday US Payroll processes including earnings, deductions, taxes, payroll calculations, pay groups, and calendars.
• Strong understanding of US federal, state, and local taxation, garnishments, W-2, benefits deductions, and payroll compliance.
• Manage payroll data transformation, reconciliation, and EIB/inbound-outbound integrations.
• Support parallel payroll runs, UAT, cutover, go-live, and post-production stabilization.
• Coordinate with HCM, Benefits, Time Tracking, and other upstream/downstream modules.
• Support payroll integrations with tax, benefits, and other third-party vendors.

3. Workday Absence & Time Tracking

• Configure and support Workday Absence Management and Time Tracking processes.
• Configure absence types, eligibility rules, accruals, time-off plans, validations, calendars, and related business processes.
• Configure time tracking, time entry, time calculations, time-off, overtime, and time validation rules.
• Integrate Time Tracking and Absence with Payroll, Benefits, HCM, and other Workday modules.
• Support testing, UAT, data conversion, go-live, and production support.
• Troubleshoot time and absence-related issues and provide functional solutions.

4. Workday Reporting & Prism Analytics

• Develop and support Workday reports including Advanced, Matrix, Composite, and Custom Reports.
• Strong understanding of calculated fields, report data sources, prompts, filters, and report security.
• Build dashboards and analytics based on business requirements.
• Support reporting requirements across HCM, Finance, Payroll, Time, Absence, and other Workday modules.
• Experience with Workday Prism Analytics for data ingestion, transformation, blending, and analytical reporting.
• Support Prism data sources, datasets, calculated fields, data preparation, and validation.
• Work with business stakeholders to translate reporting and analytics requirements into Workday solutions.
• Troubleshoot reporting and Prism-related issues and support Workday releases.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong functional expertise in at least one of the following Workday modules: Finance, US Payroll, Absence & Time Tracking, or Reporting & Prism.
• Hands-on experience in Workday configuration, business processes, troubleshooting, testing, and production support.
• Experience in Workday implementation, enhancement, upgrade, or AMS/support projects.
• Strong understanding of Workday business processes, security, data model/object model, and functional configuration.
• Experience with Workday integrations, EIBs, data conversion, and reporting is preferred.
• Minimum 5+ years of overall experience , with relevant Workday experience aligned to the module.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work directly with global clients.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines.
• Flexibility to work across global time zones and rotational shifts.

Education

• B.E. / B.Tech / MCA / B.Sc. or equivalent.

What Makes You Stand Out?

• Active Workday certification in the relevant module is mandatory.
• End-to-end Workday implementation experience.
• Experience working on global Workday transformation programs.
• Multi-module Workday experience.
• Strong client-facing and stakeholder management experience.
• Experience in Workday integrations, reporting, EIB, and data conversion.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, global delivery environment.

What's in It for You?

• Opportunity to build deep expertise across Workday functional modules.
• Exposure to global Workday implementations, transformations, upgrades, and support engagements.
• Opportunity to work as a Senior Consultant, Lead Consultant, or Functional Lead.
• Exposure to complex business processes and large-scale Workday environments.
• Dynamic and collaborative work environment with strong growth opportunities.
• Holidays as per location policies.
• Shared transport where available and applicable.

Modules: Workday Finance, US Payroll, Absence & Time Tracking, Reporting & Prism Analytics