Workday Functional Consultant

Compensation $ - $/year

Schedule Full time

Job Type Contract freelancer

Description

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.

• 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
• Onboarding
• Compensation
• 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 elevate them promptly.
• Promote standardized processes, accurate data, strong controls, and a sustainable Workday operating model.
• Perform other implementation-related responsibilities as assigned.

• 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…