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Position Summary
WeDriveU is seeking an experienced Workday Functional Consultant to serve as the internal functional lead for the company's Workday implementation. This individual will partner with Human Resources, Payroll, Benefits, Talent Acquisition, Operations, Finance, Information Technology, and the implementation partner to translate business requirements into practical and scalable Workday solutions.
The Workday Functional Consultant will help lead process discovery, requirements gathering, solution design, configuration review, testing, data validation, training preparation, and implementation readiness. The position will represent WeDriveU's operational and functional needs throughout the project and help ensure that the new system supports both current requirements and the company's future operating model.
This is a hands-on implementation position. The successful candidate must be able to understand business processes, challenge unnecessary complexity, document decisions, evaluate proposed configurations, and help functional leaders make informed design decisions.
This is a fixed-term position expected to last approximately 12 to 18 months based on implementation needs. The position is expected to conclude after implementation, stabilization, knowledge transfer, and transition activities are completed.
Essential Responsibilities
- Serve as WeDriveU's internal functional lead throughout the Workday implementation.
- Partner with HR, Payroll, Benefits, Talent Acquisition, Onboarding, Operations, Finance, IT, and other stakeholders to understand current processes, requirements, challenges, and desired outcomes.
- Lead and participate in discovery sessions, design workshops, process reviews, and configuration discussions.
- Translate business requirements into clear functional requirements, process designs, configuration decisions, and testing scenarios.
- Evaluate current business processes and recommend where processes should be simplified, standardized, redesigned, or retained.
- Review proposed Workday configurations to confirm they align with approved business requirements and operating practices.
- Support functional design across applicable Workday areas, which may include:
– Core Human Capital Management
– Organizational structures
– Staffing and job management
– Recruiting
– Onboarding
– Compensation
– Benefits
– Time tracking
– Absence
– Payroll-related processes
– Talent and performance
– Security roles and business process approvals
– Reporting and dashboards
- Identify dependencies and cross-functional impacts between Workday modules and business processes.
- Maintain functional requirements, configuration workbooks, process maps, design decisions, issue logs, and other implementation documentation.
- Partner with the Technical Integration Lead on data requirements, integrations, reporting needs, security considerations, and downstream system impacts.
- Support data mapping, conversion validation, reconciliation, and data-quality reviews.
- Develop functional test scenarios and expected results for unit testing, end-to-end testing, payroll parallel testing, regression testing, and user acceptance testing.
- Coordinate with business process owners to ensure testing is completed accurately and within established timelines.
- Document defects, evaluate their operational impact, and work with the implementation partner and technical resources to resolve them.
- Help define security roles, approval structures, delegated responsibilities, and appropriate separation of duties.
- Support change-impact assessments by identifying how processes, responsibilities, and user experiences will change.
- Assist with the development of training materials, process documentation, job aids, and standard operating procedures.
- Prepare internal administrators and functional owners to support Workday following go-live.
- Participate in cutover planning, go-live readiness reviews, stabilization activities, and post-implementation support.
- Identify risks, gaps, unresolved decisions, and potential scope changes and escalate them promptly.
- Promote standardized processes, accurate data, strong controls, and a sustainable Workday operating model.
- Perform other implementation-related responsibilities as assigned.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Information Systems, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
- At least five years of experience working with HR, payroll, HRIS, enterprise systems, or related business processes.
- At least three years of direct Workday functional experience.
- Experience participating in at least one full Workday implementation lifecycle, from discovery and design through testing and go-live.
Hands-on experience with Workday business process configuration, organizational structures, security concepts, reporting, and functional testing.
- Experience gathering requirements and translating business needs into system or process solutions.
- Strong understanding of HR and employee lifecycle processes.
- Demonstrated experience facilitating discussions with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Strong documentation, analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams, decisions, issues, and deadlines simultaneously.
- Ability to communicate clearly with employees at all organizational levels.
- Ability to work effectively with an external implementation partner while representing the company's interests and requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Workday certification or Workday Pro accreditation in one or more relevant functional areas.
- Experience with a Workday HCM and payroll implementation involving a complex, geographically dispersed, hourly, or frontline workforce.
- Experience with union, multi-state, transportation, or regulated work environments.
- Experience transitioning from ADP or another enterprise HR and payroll platform to Workday.
- Experience with Workday Recruiting, Onboarding, Time Tracking, Absence, Benefits, Compensation, Payroll, Talent, or Performance.
- Experience with data conversion, payroll parallel testing, security design, reporting, or change management.
- Experience supporting an organization through post-go-live stabilization and transition to an internal support model.
Workday certification is preferred but not required. Access to Workday certification is often limited to individuals with prior employment at a Workday customer or partner, so equivalent hands-on Workday experience will be considered in place of formal certification.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Strong knowledge of Workday HCM concepts and implementation practices.
- Ability to understand both business requirements and system functionality.
- Ability to identify unnecessary customization and advocate for sustainable solutions.
- Strong facilitation and stakeholder-management skills.
- Sound judgment and the ability to identify when decisions require executive or project governance review.
- Ability to explain Workday concepts in practical business language.
- High attention to detail, particularly when reviewing configuration, employee data, security, and testing results.
- Ability to work independently while contributing effectively within a cross-functional project team.
Fixed-Term Employment
This position is being established to support WeDriveU's Workday implementation and is expected to remain active for approximately 12 to 18 months. The actual duration may vary based on implementation requirements, project timing, stabilization needs, and business circumstances. This position is not intended to become a permanent role and is expected to conclude after the assigned implementation and transition responsibilities are completed.
Additional Terms and Company Statements
Physical Requirements
The physical requirements of this position include the ability to perform work in a professional office or remote-work environment, use a computer and other standard office equipment, communicate effectively in person and through electronic platforms, and participate in meetings for extended periods. Reasonable accommodations may be provided to qualified individuals with disabilities.
Equal Employment Opportunity
WeDriveU is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other status protected by applicable law.
Reasonable Accommodation
Applicants who require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process should contact WeDriveU's Human Resources team.
Position Summary
WeDriveU is seeking an experienced Workday Functional Consultant to serve as the internal functional lead for the company's Workday implementation. This individual will partner with Human Resources, Payroll, Benefits, Talent Acquisition, Operations, Finance, Information Technology, and the implementation partner to translate business requirements into practical and scalable Workday solutions.
The Workday Functional Consultant will help lead process discovery, requirements gathering, solution design, configuration review, testing, data validation, training preparation, and implementation readiness. The position will represent WeDriveU's operational and functional needs throughout the project and help ensure that the new system supports both current requirements and the company's future operating model.
This is a hands-on implementation position. The successful candidate must be able to understand business processes, challenge unnecessary complexity, document decisions, evaluate proposed configurations, and help functional leaders make informed design decisions.
This is a fixed-term position expected to last approximately 12 to 18 months based on implementation needs. The position is expected to conclude after implementation, stabilization, knowledge transfer, and transition activities are completed.
Essential Responsibilities
- Serve as WeDriveU's internal functional lead throughout the Workday implementation.
- Partner with HR, Payroll, Benefits, Talent Acquisition, Onboarding, Operations, Finance, IT, and other stakeholders to understand current processes, requirements, challenges, and desired outcomes.
- Lead and participate in discovery sessions, design workshops, process reviews, and configuration discussions.
- Translate business requirements into clear functional requirements, process designs, configuration decisions, and testing scenarios.
- Evaluate current business processes and recommend where processes should be simplified, standardized, redesigned, or retained.
- Review proposed Workday configurations to confirm they align with approved business requirements and operating practices.
- Support functional design across applicable Workday areas, which may include:
– Core Human Capital Management
– Organizational structures
– Staffing and job management
– Recruiting
– Onboarding
– Compensation
– Benefits
– Time tracking
– Absence
– Payroll-related processes
– Talent and performance
– Security roles and business process approvals
– Reporting and dashboards
- Identify dependencies and cross-functional impacts between Workday modules and business processes.
- Maintain functional requirements, configuration workbooks, process maps, design decisions, issue logs, and other implementation documentation.
- Partner with the Technical Integration Lead on data requirements, integrations, reporting needs, security considerations, and downstream system impacts.
- Support data mapping, conversion validation, reconciliation, and data-quality reviews.
- Develop functional test scenarios and expected results for unit testing, end-to-end testing, payroll parallel testing, regression testing, and user acceptance testing.
- Coordinate with business process owners to ensure testing is completed accurately and within established timelines.
- Document defects, evaluate their operational impact, and work with the implementation partner and technical resources to resolve them.
- Help define security roles, approval structures, delegated responsibilities, and appropriate separation of duties.
- Support change-impact assessments by identifying how processes, responsibilities, and user experiences will change.
- Assist with the development of training materials, process documentation, job aids, and standard operating procedures.
- Prepare internal administrators and functional owners to support Workday following go-live.
- Participate in cutover planning, go-live readiness reviews, stabilization activities, and post-implementation support.
- Identify risks, gaps, unresolved decisions, and potential scope changes and escalate them promptly.
- Promote standardized processes, accurate data, strong controls, and a sustainable Workday operating model.
- Perform other implementation-related responsibilities as assigned.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Information Systems, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
- At least five years of experience working with HR, payroll, HRIS, enterprise systems, or related business processes.
- At least three years of direct Workday functional experience.
- Experience participating in at least one full Workday implementation lifecycle, from discovery and design through testing and go-live.
Hands-on experience with Workday business process configuration, organizational structures, security concepts, reporting, and functional testing.
- Experience gathering requirements and translating business needs into system or process solutions.
- Strong understanding of HR and employee lifecycle processes.
- Demonstrated experience facilitating discussions with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Strong documentation, analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams, decisions, issues, and deadlines simultaneously.
- Ability to communicate clearly with employees at all organizational levels.
- Ability to work effectively with an external implementation partner while representing the company's interests and requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Workday certification or Workday Pro accreditation in one or more relevant functional areas.
- Experience with a Workday HCM and payroll implementation involving a complex, geographically dispersed, hourly, or frontline workforce.
- Experience with union, multi-state, transportation, or regulated work environments.
- Experience transitioning from ADP or another enterprise HR and payroll platform to Workday.
- Experience with Workday Recruiting, Onboarding, Time Tracking, Absence, Benefits, Compensation, Payroll, Talent, or Performance.
- Experience with data conversion, payroll parallel testing, security design, reporting, or change management.
- Experience supporting an organization through post-go-live stabilization and transition to an internal support model.
Workday certification is preferred but not required. Access to Workday certification is often limited to individuals with prior employment at a Workday customer or partner, so equivalent hands-on Workday experience will be considered in place of formal certification.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Strong knowledge of Workday HCM concepts and implementation practices.
- Ability to understand both business requirements and system functionality.
- Ability to identify unnecessary customization and advocate for sustainable solutions.
- Strong facilitation and stakeholder-management skills.
- Sound judgment and the ability to identify when decisions require executive or project governance review.
- Ability to explain Workday concepts in practical business language.
- High attention to detail, particularly when reviewing configuration, employee data, security, and testing results.
- Ability to work independently while contributing effectively within a cross-functional project team.
Fixed-Term Employment
This position is being established to support WeDriveU's Workday implementation and is expected to remain active for approximately 12 to 18 months. The actual duration may vary based on implementation requirements, project timing, stabilization needs, and business circumstances. This position is not intended to become a permanent role and is expected to conclude after the assigned implementation and transition responsibilities are completed.
Additional Terms and Company Statements
Physical Requirements
The physical requirements of this position include the ability to perform work in a professional office or remote-work environment, use a computer and other standard office equipment, communicate effectively in person and through electronic platforms, and participate in meetings for extended periods. Reasonable accommodations may be provided to qualified individuals with disabilities.
Equal Employment Opportunity
WeDriveU is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other status protected by applicable law.
Reasonable Accommodation
Applicants who require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process should contact WeDriveU's Human Resources team.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in workday consultant jobs.
- Hands-on experience configuring one or more Workday modules such as HCM, Financials, or Payroll
- Active Workday certification in at least one functional or technical area
- Experience leading or supporting full-lifecycle Workday implementations from discovery to go-live
- Ability to gather business requirements and translate them into Workday configuration decisions
- Proficiency with Workday reporting tools including calculated fields, composite reports, or BIRT
- Bachelor's degree in information systems, business, human resources, or a related field
Tips for Your Workday Consultant Job Search
Tailor your resume to Workday modules
List each Workday module you've configured by name, such as Payroll, Benefits, Recruiting, or Adaptive Planning. Recruiters filter resumes by module, so a generic 'Workday experience' line gets skipped while a specific module list gets noticed.
Highlight your Workday certification status
Workday certifications expire and require annual recertification, so note both the certification name and the year it's current through. Hiring managers distinguish between consultants who are certified now and those who were certified years ago.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists workday consultant openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Filter openings by deployment phase
Some roles focus on net-new implementations, others on post-production optimization or tenant management. Read each job description carefully and apply to roles that match the phase you've spent the most time in, since interviewers will probe that depth.
Quantify your implementation scope
Describe past projects with concrete scope details: number of business processes configured, employee population size, or go-live timeline. These specifics let interviewers assess whether your experience scales to their project, which a vague 'large implementation' never does.
Prepare for a Workday-specific scenario round
Most technical interviews include a live or take-home scenario where you walk through a configuration decision, a report build, or an integration design. Practice explaining your reasoning out loud, not just arriving at the right answer, since interviewers evaluate your methodology as much as your output.
Workday Consultant Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most workday consultants?
The companies hiring the most workday consultants right now include Deloitte, UST, and Makse, with the largest share of openings in Texas, California, and Florida, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Consulting firms and large healthcare systems consistently account for a high share of active postings.
How many workday consultant jobs are remote?
About 84% of workday consultant openings are fully remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting the configuration-heavy nature of the role, which rarely requires on-site presence outside of go-live weeks. Technical integration and report-writing roles tend to have the highest share of fully remote arrangements, while change management and training-focused positions more often require some in-person work.
How do you become a workday consultant?
Start by gaining exposure to Workday through an employer that runs it, then pursue formal Workday certification through an authorized training partner or a consulting firm's onboarding program. Build hands-on experience in at least one module, document the implementations you've contributed to, and apply to consulting roles that match your functional area. Most consultants enter through either a staffing firm placement or an internal IT role at a Workday-using organization.
Can you get a workday consultant job without much experience?
Yes, entry points exist for candidates with limited direct experience, particularly through consulting firms that run structured Workday training programs for new hires. A background in HR, finance, or IT administration helps, and completing Workday's community training or a third-party bootcamp demonstrates initiative. Roles focused on testing, data migration, or user acceptance support are often more accessible starting points than full configuration or architecture positions.
What does the workday consultant interview process look like?
The process typically starts with a recruiter screen covering your module experience and availability, followed by a hiring manager conversation focused on past project scope and methodology. Most firms include a technical round where you walk through a configuration scenario or explain an integration design decision. Final rounds often involve a panel with a delivery lead or client-facing stakeholder who evaluates how you communicate trade-offs to non-technical audiences.
Where can I find and apply to workday consultant jobs?
You can find and apply to workday consultant jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States in one place. Find roles that match your module experience and apply directly to each listing without leaving the platform.
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