Workday Payroll Associate Manager

Summary

Kainos is a company focused on transforming digital services and delivering cutting-edge Workday solutions. As a Workday Payroll Associate Manager, you will implement and configure payroll solutions for clients, while mentoring junior team members and ensuring customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Implement and configure Workday solutions for a global clientele
• Build strong relationships with customers, ensuring their needs are met while mentoring junior team members
• Deliver exceptional service to clients by leveraging expertise in Workday Payroll implementation
• Provide excellent guidance to customers, understanding their business and requirements
• Support junior members of the team and share your knowledge with them

Skills

• At least 2-3 years of Workday Payroll implementation experience
• At least 2 years configuring Workday Payroll implementation from E2E with the last 3 years
• Certification in Workday United States Payroll
• The ability to build complex payroll calculations
• Experience with multiple positions
• Experience with implementing multiple FEIN's
• Strong understanding of state taxes, local taxes, and FLSA calculations
• An understanding of Workday Payroll, US Payroll, Time Tracking and Absence products and the interdependencies with Benefits, Time Tracking and Absence as well as other cross functional capabilities
• Experience with Payroll regulatory requirements (Tax, Garnishments, Common Pay Master), retirement benefits (401K etc.), payroll processing, Unions/Collective Bargaining Agreements and payroll accounting
• Excellent customer focus, able to assess customer needs, build relationships and manage customer expectations
• Strong communicator, able to communicate with customers and colleagues with impact, credibility and empathy, including in a remote working situation
• Sound ability to formally present to senior Client audiences
• Strong commercial awareness and full understanding of project and business dynamics
• Broad business and technology understanding and a good awareness of industry trends in either Human Resource management, Financials or Enterprise Resource Planning or Payroll
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and make sensible decisions under pressure taking a balanced view of Customer demands and Kainos commercials
• Ability to widen and maintain a network of external contacts
• Strong consulting skills e.g. presenting, leading workshops, demonstrating and explaining complex functionality or solutions to customers
• Willing to participate in PATT team internal discussions and help where possible
• Willing and able to act as a role model within the capability and mentor and/or line manage more junior consultants
• Willing to assist AMS with questions related to your subject area
• Able to implement improvements in tools and/or processes to help the practice
• Commercial understanding of utilization within a services organization and the importance of these targets
• Able to rotate through various Workday delivery services
• Able, if required, to travel to customer sites in the same region (minimal out of region travel may also be required)
• Workday United States Payroll Certified required
• Professional qualifications in your area of expertise (Certified Payroll Professional (CPP))
• Experience in post deployment services

Qualifications

Must Haves

• At least 2-3 years of Workday Payroll implementation experience
• At least 2 years configuring Workday Payroll implementation from E2E with the last 3 years
• Certification in Workday United States Payroll
• The ability to build complex payroll calculations
• Experience with multiple positions
• Experience with implementing multiple FEIN's
• Strong understanding of state taxes, local taxes, and FLSA calculations
• An understanding of Workday Payroll, US Payroll, Time Tracking and Absence products and the interdependencies with Benefits, Time Tracking and Absence as well as other cross functional capabilities
• Experience with Payroll regulatory requirements (Tax, Garnishments, Common Pay Master), retirement benefits (401K etc.), payroll processing, Unions/Collective Bargaining Agreements and payroll accounting
• Excellent customer focus, able to assess customer needs, build relationships and manage customer expectations
• Strong communicator, able to communicate with customers and colleagues with impact, credibility and empathy, including in a remote working situation
• Sound ability to formally present to senior Client audiences
• Strong commercial awareness and full understanding of project and business dynamics
• Broad business and technology understanding and a good awareness of industry trends in either Human Resource management, Financials or Enterprise Resource Planning or Payroll
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and make sensible decisions under pressure taking a balanced view of Customer demands and Kainos commercials
• Ability to widen and maintain a network of external contacts
• Strong consulting skills e.g. presenting, leading workshops, demonstrating and explaining complex functionality or solutions to customers
• Willing to participate in PATT team internal discussions and help where possible
• Willing and able to act as a role model within the capability and mentor and/or line manage more junior consultants
• Willing to assist AMS with questions related to your subject area
• Able to implement improvements in tools and/or processes to help the practice
• Commercial understanding of utilization within a services organization and the importance of these targets
• Able to rotate through various Workday delivery services
• Able, if required, to travel to customer sites in the same region (minimal out of region travel may also be required)

Nice to Haves

• Workday United States Payroll Certified required
• Professional qualifications in your area of expertise (Certified Payroll Professional (CPP))
• Experience in post deployment services