Functional Consultant - Payroll, Absence & Time Tracking Systems

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About the Team

About the Role

As a PATTS Functional Consultant in Professional Services, you help customers successfully deploy and adopt Workday in the areas of Payroll, Absence, Time Tracking, and Scheduling (PATTS). You work across the full project lifecycle: understanding customer policies and agreements, designing future‑state processes, configuring Workday, running workshops, testing solutions, and supporting customers through go‑live and stabilization.
You collaborate closely with project managers, other functional and technical consultants, and customer stakeholders. Depending on your level (P2, P3, P4), you will own increasingly complex workstreams, customer conversations, and solution decisions, while contributing to the continuous improvement of our PATTS assets, templates, and best practices.

About You

• 1–3 years of professional experience in consulting, HR operations, payroll, time & attendance, workforce management, or related areas.
• Exposure to SaaS/Cloud enterprise applications (ideally Workday or similar HR/payroll/time systems).
• Experience participating in projects or process changes (e.g., as an analyst, SME, or junior consultant).

• Typically 3–6 years of professional experience, with at least 2–3 years in consulting or leading system/process implementations in payroll, time, absence, or scheduling.
• Hands‑on experience configuring and delivering solutions in Workday or a comparable workforce/payroll application.
• Experience owning a functional workstream or module within a project (e.g., leading the Absence, Time Tracking, Payroll, or Scheduling track).

• Typically 6+ years of professional experience, with significant time in consulting and leading complex implementations in payroll, time, absence, and/or scheduling.
• Demonstrated experience as the primary functional lead for one or more end‑to‑end Workday (or equivalent) deployments in PATTS domains.
• Experience engaging with senior customer stakeholders (HR, Payroll leadership, Operations, HRIS/IT) on design decisions and roadmap.
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• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.
• Direct experience with Workday Payroll, Absence, Time Tracking, or Scheduling, including country‑specific variants.
• Certifications or formal training in Workday HCM/Payroll/Time/Absence or equivalent.
• Familiarity with labor law, leave regulations, or collective agreements in at least one country.
• Experience in industries with complex workforce patterns (e.g., manufacturing, retail, healthcare, hospitality, logistics).
• Experience in global projects (multi‑country payroll/time implementations).
• Additional languages beyond English, depending on region and customer base.

• Customer‑centric mindset: focus on solutions that are compliant, maintainable, and usable by HR, Payroll, managers, and employees.
• Growth mindset: comfortable with feedback, ambiguity, and continuous learning across PATTS domains.
• Strong sense of accountability: you own outcomes (accurate pay, correct balances, workable schedules), not just configuration tasks.
• Alignment with Workday values: integrity, collaboration, inclusion, and innovation in day‑to‑day behavior.

Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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