Workday Absence & Time Tracking Principal Consultant

Role overview

Lead the functional design and delivery of Workday Absence and Time Tracking solutions for complex implementations. As a senior advisor, guide clients from requirements discovery through deployment, lead project workstreams, and support the development of consulting teams and practice capabilities.

Responsibilities

- Advise clients on absence, leave administration, time entry and calculation, scheduling, compliance, and workforce planning. - Facilitate workshops and translate business needs into scalable solution designs and configurations. - Lead medium to large implementation workstreams, managing decisions, risks, and dependencies. - Coordinate with HCM, payroll, benefits, integrations, reporting, security, change, and project teams. - Support testing, data conversion, cutover, deployment, and post-launch work. - Mentor consultants and contribute to proposals, estimates, demonstrations, training, methods, and reusable practice materials.

Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, active Workday Absence and/or Time Tracking certification, and at least five years of Workday implementation experience. - Demonstrated leadership of Absence and Time Tracking workstreams on end-to-end implementations. - Strong functional knowledge of absence, leave, time tracking, scheduling, workforce compliance, and payroll-related processes. - Experience with requirements gathering, workshop facilitation, design, configuration, testing, and deployment. - Pre-sales experience and strong consulting, communication, stakeholder management, and mentoring skills. - Able to manage multiple priorities; eligible for UK SC clearance, resident in the UK for the previous five years, and legally entitled to work there.

Benefits and work setup

- Remote work is indicated, with minimal travel and occasional on-site attendance as needed. Learning opportunities and employee affinity groups are mentioned.