Senior Workday Implementation Specialist at Remote

What You Bring

• 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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.