Senior Workday Implementation Specialist
Remote
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇪🇺 Anywhere in Europe
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💰 €75,000 - €84,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Lead end-to-end Workday payroll integrations for large and complex customers, ensuring successful setup, data migration, and go-live.
- Serve as the primary technical and functional point of contact for customers implementing Remote’s Global Payroll integrated with Workday.
- Analyse customers’ Workday environments to understand data structures, configurations, and dependencies for integration into Remote’s systems.
- Manage the data extraction, transformation, and validation processes between Workday and Remote’s Global Payroll platform.
- Partner closely with customers’ HRIS, Payroll, and IT teams to align HCM-to-Payroll data flows, ensuring accurate configuration and compliance.
- Configure Remote’s Payroll system on a customer-by-customer basis, ensuring adherence to local regulations and tax requirements.
- Coordinate and validate parallel payroll runs, reconciliations, and year-to-date adjustments to confirm setup accuracy.
- Oversee payroll go-live readiness, ensuring all integrations, validations, and compliance checks are complete.
- Transition customers to Payroll Operations teams with complete and accurate configuration documentation.
- Provide training and guidance to customers on Workday integration processes, data mapping, and payroll best practices.
- Maintain strong customer relationships to drive satisfaction, adoption, and retention.
- Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying opportunities for automation, scalability, and process optimisation.
- Maintain the confidentiality and integrity of customer and employee data at all times.
- Participate in quality assurance reviews of peer implementations to ensure consistency and compliance with Remote’s standards.
- Support the creation and maintenance of Workday integration playbooks and internal process documentation.
Requirements
- Proven experience implementing or integrating Workday HCM, ideally within a global payroll or HRIS context.
- Strong understanding of Workday modules including Core HCM, Compensation, Absence, Time Tracking, and Integrations.
- Experience delivering end-to-end payroll implementations leveraging Workday as the source of truth for HR and employee data.
- Demonstrated ability to map and validate data between Workday and external payroll systems, ensuring compliance and data accuracy.
- Excellent and proficient understanding of global payroll operations, statutory compliance, and multi-country payroll setup.
- Strong customer onboarding and project management experience for complex, multi-entity implementations.
- Advanced data management and analysis skills (Google Sheets or Excel).
- An analytical, detail-oriented mindset with strong problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, international environment with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills with a customer-first mindset.
- Self-starter, comfortable working independently and asynchronously across time zones.
- Fluent in English (written and spoken).
- Experience working remotely is a plus.
- Familiarity with Monday.com, Notion, Slack, and Salesforce is a plus.
- Knowledge of other payroll platforms is a plus.
Benefits
- work from anywhere
- flexible paid time off
- flexible working hours (we are async)
- 16 weeks paid parental leave
- mental health support services
- stock options
- learning budget
- home office budget & IT equipment
- budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Workday HCMdata migrationdata extractiondata transformationdata validationpayroll implementationdata mappingglobal payroll operationsstatutory compliancemulti-country payroll setup
Soft skills
customer onboardingproject managementanalytical mindsetproblem-solvingcommunication skillsrelationship-buildingself-starterdetail-orientedability to work independentlyadaptability