Workday - US Payroll Lead Consultant
Posted 2 days ago by SkillSearch
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
Remote within the USA
Summary: The role of Workday US Payroll Lead Consultant involves leading payroll configuration and compliance for a major organization, particularly in environments with large hourly workforces, such as restaurants. The position requires collaboration with HR, Finance, and Operations teams to implement scalable Workday solutions while ensuring payroll accuracy and adherence to regulations. The consultant is expected to provide operational support and documentation throughout the assignment. This is a long-term staff-augmentation role requiring immediate availability for 30 hours per week over a 9-month period.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leading Workday US Payroll configuration, optimisation, and troubleshooting.
- Acting as the client-side subject matter expert for all US Payroll activities.
- Partnering with HR, Finance, and Operations teams to gather requirements and translate them into scalable Workday solutions.
- Ensuring payroll accuracy, compliance, and adherence to federal, state, and local regulations.
- Supporting payroll testing cycles, audits, enhancements, and month-end or year-end activities.
- Providing documentation, best-practice guidance, and operational support as needed.
Key Skills:
- Strong experience as a Workday US Payroll Lead, ideally within restaurant, hospitality, or high-volume multi-state payroll environments.
- Demonstrated success operating in a client-side staff-augmentation model.
- Deep knowledge of Workday US Payroll configuration, tax setup, deductions, EIBs, and payroll integrations.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across distributed teams.
- Able to start immediately and commit to 30 hours per week for a 9-month assignment.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Are you an experienced Workday US Payroll Lead looking for your next client-side engagement?
We’re searching for a knowledgeable Workday US Payroll specialist to support a major organisation through a long-term staff-augmentation assignment. This role focuses on leading payroll configuration, compliance, and issue resolution, with a strong preference for experience in restaurant or large hourly-workforce environments.
What you’ll be doing:
- Leading Workday US Payroll configuration, optimisation, and troubleshooting.
- Acting as the client-side subject matter expert for all US Payroll activities.
- Partnering with HR, Finance, and Operations teams to gather requirements and translate them into scalable Workday solutions.
- Ensuring payroll accuracy, compliance, and adherence to federal, state, and local regulations.
- Supporting payroll testing cycles, audits, enhancements, and month-end or year-end activities.
- Providing documentation, best-practice guidance, and operational support as needed.
What we’re looking for:
- Strong experience as a Workday US Payroll Lead, ideally within restaurant, hospitality, or high-volume multi-state payroll environments.
- Demonstrated success operating in a client-side staff-augmentation model.
- Deep knowledge of Workday US Payroll configuration, tax setup, deductions, EIBs, and payroll integrations.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across distributed teams.
- Able to start immediately and commit to 30 hours per week for a 9-month assignment.
If you’re a skilled Workday US Payroll Lead ready to step into a high-impact role, we’d be happy to share more details. Apply now, or reach out to Adam Leaver – al@skillsearch.com
Years of experience and salary levels are shown purely as a guide. We will only consider applications from candidates that can demonstrate the skills or experience required for the role.
Please be aware that while we would love to respond to every application we receive, due to high numbers we cannot guarantee this. We do however appreciate any time you invest into the application and will make sure to get in touch should anything in future more closely fit your skillset.