Workday Hcm Lead (Compensation)

• We are seeking a highly experienced Workday Partner HCM & Compensation Lead to drive the successful delivery of Workday HCM and Compensation solutions for enterprise clients. This role serves as a trusted advisor to HR, Total Rewards, and executive leadership teams, leading large-scale Workday transformations from strategy through deployment.

• The ideal candidate combines deep Workday functional expertise with strong consulting, stakeholder management, and project leadership skills. This individual will lead solution design, business process optimization, client workshops, and implementation teams to deliver innovative and scalable Workday solutions.
  
  

Key Responsibilities:

Workday HCM & Compensation Leadership:

• Lead end-to-end Workday HCM and Compensation implementations, enhancements, and optimization projects.

• Serve as the Functional Lead for Workday HCM, Compensation, and Advanced Compensation workstreams.

• Design and configure Workday solutions supporting

• Core HCM

• Compensation

• Advanced Compensation

• Merit Planning

• Bonus Planning

• Equity and Stock Programs

• Talent Management

• Performance Management

• Organizational Structures

• Align Workday functionality with business, HR, and compensation strategies.

Client Advisory & Stakeholder Management:

• Act as a trusted advisor to CHROs, HR leaders, Compensation leaders, and business stakeholders.

• Facilitate discovery sessions, requirements workshops, and solution design meetings.

• Translate business requirements into scalable Workday solutions.

• Present recommendations, project updates, and solution roadmaps to executive leadership.

• Manage stakeholder expectations, project risks, and escalation activities.

Business Process & Solution Design:

• Lead fit-gap analysis and process transformation initiatives.

• Recommend and implement Workday leading practices.

• Design business processes, security requirements, eligibility rules, and compensation frameworks.

• Drive workforce and compensation process standardization across organizations.

Project Delivery & Governance:

• Lead multiple project workstreams and cross-functional teams.

• Oversee requirements gathering, configuration, testing, deployment, and stabilization activities.

• Review solution designs and ensure adherence to quality and compliance standards.

• Support integration, reporting, security, and change management teams throughout project delivery.

• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.

Team Leadership & Mentoring:

• Mentor and develop Workday consultants and analysts.

• Conduct peer reviews and quality assurance assessments.

• • Share Workday best practices and industry knowledge across project teams.
• • Foster a collaborative, high-performance consulting culture.

• Business Development & Practice Growth

• • Support sales pursuits, solution demonstrations, and proposal development.
• • Participate in client presentations, RFP responses, and discovery sessions.
• • Contribute to practice development initiatives, accelerators, and methodologies.
• • Stay current with Workday product releases and industry trends.
    

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Information Systems, or related field.

• 7+ years of Workday consulting experience.

• 5+ years leading Workday HCM and Compensation implementations.

• Experience leading multiple full lifecycle Workday deployments.

Deep expertise in:

• Workday HCM

• Workday Compensation

• Advanced Compensation

• Business Process Framework

• Organizations and Supervisory Structures

• Workday Security

• Strong client-facing consulting experience.

• Exceptional communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.

• Proven ability to manage executive stakeholders and project teams.
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active Workday HCM Certification.

• Active Workday Compensation Certification.

Experience with:

• Talent Management

• Recruiting

• Performance Management

• Advanced Reporting

• Prism Analytics

• Discovery Boards

• Experience supporting global Workday deployments.

• Prior experience with a Workday Services Partner or consulting organization.

• PMP, SHRM, Prosci, or related certifications preferred.
  
  
  

Required Skills:

• Workday HCM

• Workday Compensation

• Advanced Compensation

• Merit Planning

• Bonus Planning

• Total Rewards

• Compensation Cycles

• Business Process Design

• Workday Security

• Organizational Design

• Talent Management

• Performance Management

• Stakeholder Management

• Functional Leadership

• Workforce Transformation

• HR Technology

• Change Management

• Process Optimization

• Executive Communication

• Project Leadership
  
  
  

Preferred Skills:

• Workday Reporting

• Discovery Boards

• Prism Analytics

• Workforce Planning

• Job Architecture

• Global Compensation

• Employee Experience

• HR Operations

• Consulting Delivery

• Agile Project Delivery

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $52.24/hour - $81.62/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.