Workday HCM Functional Consultant in Plano, Texas

Workday Hcm Functional Consultant

Akkodis is seeking a Workday HCM Functional Consultant for a contract job with a client in Plano TX/McLean VA/Richmond VA/New York/Boston MA. Ideally looking for applicants with a solid background in the financial services industry.

Desired Skill Sets:

• Core HCM (Required)
• Recruiting (Required)- extensive experience is required and MUST
• Benefits (required)
• Talent Management & Performance Management (TMPM) (Preferred)
• Strong Workday Functional configuration experience
• Business Processes experience
• Job requisition setup, calculated fields, and country-specific configuration
• HM oversees two teams: the Core Team and the Expansion Team. This role will sit on the Core Team, which supports global regions including Canada, the UK, Mexico, and the Philippines.
• Team operates across three primary lines of business within global initiatives:
  Recruiting, Core HCM, and Benefits and TMPM Talent management and performance management
• This role is functional, including business processes, conditional logic, calculated fields, and Workday documentation.
• The team supports global enterprise solutions, including enhancements related to legal compliance and regulatory requirements. There is a strong emphasis on building scalable solutions that can be applied across multiple regions-not just country-specific fixes.
• The team is distributed across the U.S., with key engineers located in New York and Boston, and primarily operates on an East Coast schedule.
• Day-to-day responsibilities include working within an Agile environment using Jira, starting with daily stand-ups and participating in standard Agile ceremonies.
• Bi-weekly ceremonies focus on planning, dependencies, and resource alignment
• Quarterly deep dives involve stakeholders, security, and platform teams
• This role requires frequent interaction with stakeholders, especially during solution design, prototyping, and implementation phases.
• The ideal candidate will have:
• Strong experience across Workday modules (Recruiting, Benefits, Core HCM and TMPM-Talent Management and performance management)
• A solid understanding of the end-to-end Workday ecosystem and business processes
• Experience with Jira/Agile methodologies is preferred.