Workday HCM Senior Principal Consultant

Position Overview

• Location Type: Onsite (Travel may be required)
• Employment Type: Full Time
• Salary: Not provided in the text.
• Company: Cognizant

Cognizant is a leading global finance and HR transformation consultancy. They provide world-class cloud solutions to help deliver successful client outcomes for Fortune Global 500 companies and other organizations. As a long-standing Workday Services Partner, Cognizant offers full lifecycle services, including advisory and proprietary tools, having helped over 1,000 clients transform their businesses. The Senior Principal Consultant will provide expert guidance between business and technical teams, solving complex Workday intersystem problems and guiding clients through implementation and operation phases.

Responsibilities

• Lead the HCM functional workstream for clients, ensuring successful project delivery.
• Reinforces company policies and procedures to others.
• Helps others by driving, organizing, and assigning tasks within a project workstream to drive efficient completion and achieve project goals.
• Guide the client through facilitated design sessions and configuration decisions based on best practices and client-specific business requirements.
• Regularly engage and support the client through all phases of the project, ensuring a smooth transition from legacy systems to the Workday HCM solution.
• Perform multiple tasks under limited direction, keeping the client, project team, and Engagement Manager informed of changes or progress.
• Willingness to take a leadership position on a project or as a Cognizant or Workday product Partner Lead/Delivery Assurance Reviewer.
• Display hands-on expertise in Workday software, including data loading, tenant-to-tenant configuration, and business process/security configuration.
• Utilize technical aptitude to convert and map data sources into data conversion templates.
• Act as a mentor to fellow consultants and analysts, providing support for shadow assignments.
• Actively participate in update training and internal opportunities to share skills and learnings.
• Perform additional duties as assigned by the manager.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree required or equivalent.
• Workday Certification: Workday certification in HCM Core is required.
• Experience: 3+ years of Workday HCM functional implementation experience required.
• Track Record: Proven track record of successfully leading Workday HCM implementations for various clients.
• Skills: Experience gathering business requirements, designing, and prototyping, testing, and implementing practical business solutions under multiple deadlines.
• Preferred Skills: Experience with additional Workday modules such as Core Compensation, Recruiting, Benefits, People Experience, or Advanced Compensation.
• Travel: Willingness to travel as needed to client sites.

Application Instructions

• Not provided in the text. (Contact Cognizant directly for application details.)