Workday Absence

As a Workday solution architect with primary focus on the Absence Management module you will be responsible for identifying designing implementing and maintaining absence management solutions within Workday and those relevant 3^rd party absence management support systems that interface with Workday. The candidate must have a proven track record of implementing and administering Workday with expert level knowledge of the absence management module and HCM processing. The role will require the candidate to partner with stakeholders within our total rewards team understand business needs define requirements in support of the employees managers and business partner experience and to architect configure support and maintain solutions to achieve desired business objectives.

What will you do

Own the Workday absence management module to include best practices for the system architecture from concept through requirements design build test deploy and maintain

Provide subject matter expertise on Workday absence management best practices and partner with stakeholders to understand pain points prioritize requirements and identify opportunities to improve processes and gain efficiency by leveraging Workday functionality

Identify business critical Workday new features released (R1 & R2 releases) and demo to our stakeholders

Understand the full P&C technology landscape especially how thirdparty point solutions are utilized and integrated within Workday

Develop partnerships with our total rewards COE stakeholders and provide guidance on how to best leverage and utilize Workday for absence management

Optimize standardize and automate the Workday absence management process across a global environment

Assess current setup configuration systems utilization and identify and recommend improvements

Develop training to help end users with adoption and usage of Workday

Recommend and configure enhancements to maximize value and efficiency of the Workday absence management module and provide end to end solution and design details during Architect Sessions

Leverage your masterylevel knowledge of Workday absence management to lead the design configuration integration data conversion security testing reporting post production support and change management activities

Collaborate closely with other Workday solution architects to leverage knowledge other solutions and best practice to ensure a holistic bestpractice approach

Review the Workday new product releases identify features and functionality to adopt and coordinate the planning and execution and testing of those delivered features

Primary focus is Workday absence management with secondary focus to support other system needs

Plan lead and facilitate art of the possible design and solution architecture workshops

Accurately estimate effort and resources required to complete projects as related to areas of expertise

Mentor and guide more junior colleagues for their roles in configuration and testing

Provide excellent customer service in response to P&C inquiries and resolve inquiries accurately and timely

Utilize a case tool for capturing all inquiries requests and customer information

What Were Looking For

Bachelor s Degree in IT Business or related field

Minimum of 4 years of industry experience in Workday Absence management as solution architect delivering and configuring absence management solutions and full lifecycle implementations of the absence management module

Workday Pro certified with mastery level experience in Workday Absence management preferred

Experience and knowledge of other Workday modules preferred such as HCM

Excellent verbal and written communication escalation and conflict resolution skills

Strong problemsolving skills and ability to troubleshoot technical issues

Experience developing and delivering training programs

Strong attention to detail and ability to maintain data accuracy and integrity

A passion for excellent customer service adaptable & flexible

Ability to multitask and work effectively and efficiently delivering highquality work in a fast paced changing work environment

Ability to comply with handling sensitive and confidential employee data

Works under general direction; must be able to work independently