Principal Consultant-Functional- UKG

Job Description Role – Principal Consultant Technology – Functional- UKG Pro Location –London Business Unit – WFMCompensation – Competitive (including bonus)

Job Description Strong understanding of HR, payroll, and workforce management principles.

Should have hands on experience in UKG Pro implementation projects in configuring Timekeeping, Attendance & Accruals, Scheduling, Advance Scheduling

Your role

As a Principal Consultant, you will provide strategic and delivery leadership for UKG Pro workforce management implementations, acting as a trusted advisor to clients and internal stakeholders. You will lead complex, multi-module implementations covering Timekeeping, Attendance & Accruals, Scheduling, and Advanced Scheduling, ensuring solutions are scalable, compliant, and aligned with business and organizational goals.

You will be responsible for driving solution architecture, defining best practices, and designing complex workflows, rules, policies, and integrations with other HR and payroll systems. In this role, you will translate business requirements into optimized UKG Pro configurations, troubleshoot high-impact issues, and guide teams through successful delivery.

Additionally, you will mentor senior consultants, review technical designs and documentation, support governance and quality assurance, and contribute to stakeholder communication, training strategy, and continuous improvement initiatives. You will serve as a UKG Pro subject matter expert, ensuring excellence across implementation, optimization, and post-go-live support.

ResponsibilitiesUKG Pro WFM Solution Leadership Lead full lifecycle UKG Pro WFM implementations, including discovery, design, configuration, testing, deployment, and post‑go‑live stabilization

Serve as the WFM solution architect, ensuring configurations align with business strategy, compliance needs, and scalability requirements

Define and enforce implementation standards, governance models, and best practices

Configuration & Functional Expertise Hands‑on configuration expertise across:
Timekeeping Attendance & Leave Accrual management (complex accrual rules, carryovers, caps, proration)
Scheduling & Advanced Scheduling Shift differentials, premiums, and overtime rulesBIRT reporting

Sound knowledge on Dell Boomi & interface related KPIsDesign and implement:
Advanced pay rules, work rules, schedules, and labor categories

Complex workflows, approvals, validations, and exception handling

Union, non-union, and country/region-specific rule sets Advanced Workforce Management Capabilities Configure and optimize:
Workforce forecasting and demand planning

Labor optimization and compliance tracking

Multi-location and multi-legal-entity workforce models

Advise on best practices for:
Workforce productivity

Cost control

Regulatory compliance (pay rules, working hours, leave laws)
Integrations & Technical Design Lead and support UKG Pro integrations with: HR Core Payroll Finance  and third-party systems

Analyze integration requirements and collaborate with technical teams on:
Inbound/outbound data flows

File-based and API-based integrations

Troubleshoot and resolve complex data synchronization and configuration issues

Stakeholder & Client Engagement Partner with senior business leaders, HR, Payroll, IT, and Operations teams to translate business requirements into UKG Pro WFM solutions

Act as a trusted advisor to clients, providing strategic guidance beyond system configuration

Lead workshops, blueprint sessions, and solution reviews

Team Leadership & Mentorship Provide technical and functional leadership to junior consultants

Review solution designs and configurations to ensure quality and consistency

Mentor team members on advanced UKG Pro WFM concepts and implementation approaches

Training & Enablement Design and deliver:
End‑user training

Administrator and super-user training

Develop reusable training materials, user guides, and configuration documentation

Documentation & Support Create and maintain:
Solution design documents

Configuration workbooks

Integration specifications

Lead issue resolution for complex WFM defects and production issues

Support post‑implementation optimization and continuous…