Workday Payroll Consultant

Title: Senior Workday Payroll Consultant

Location: Tulsa,OK(onsite from Day 1)

Roles and Responsibilities:

•              Serve as a senior techno-functional resource supporting the Payroll team and production payroll cycles.

•              Configure and maintain Workday Payroll, including earnings, deductions, payroll calculations, tax-related configuration, payroll inputs, eligibility rules and supporting business processes.

•              Translate payroll operational, statutory and regulatory requirements into appropriate Workday configuration.

•              Assess payroll-impacting regulatory changes and configure, test and deploy required Workday changes.

•              Support payroll teams in diagnosing calculation errors, configuration issues and payroll exceptions.

•              Perform root-cause analysis of complex payroll issues and coordinate resolution across Payroll, HRIS, Workday and third-party providers.

•              Support Workday releases, regression testing and configuration changes affecting payroll.

Country payroll enablement

•              Support the addition and configuration of new countries/payroll populations within the organization's Workday and payroll-provider landscape.

•              Analyze country-specific payroll requirements and determine impacts to Workday configuration and downstream payroll processing.

•              Configure payroll-related business processes, data requirements, mappings and supporting rules.

•              Coordinate testing, validation and production readiness with Payroll, HR, Tax, Finance and payroll providers.

Tax and regulatory configuration

•              Maintain strong understanding of payroll taxation, statutory deductions and regulatory requirements relevant to supported countries.

•              Evaluate legislative changes and translate them into Workday Payroll configuration and testing requirements.

•              Experience responding to significant U.S. payroll/tax legislative change is highly desirable. For example, experience analyzing and implementing payroll impacts arising from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) or comparable major tax/regulatory changes would be particularly valuable.

•              Partner with Payroll/Tax specialists to validate calculations and ensure configuration accurately reflects approved requirements.

ADP & Payroll Integration Responsibilities

•              Provide functional and techno-functional ownership of integrations between Workday and ADP payroll services.

•              Strong experience with PECI (Payroll Effective Change Interface) and other Workday payroll integration frameworks.

•              Experience supporting ADP SmartConnect or comparable Workday-to-payroll-provider integrations is highly desirable.

•              Understand integration configuration, schedules, data mappings, eligibility/data selection, validation and error handling.

•              Troubleshoot failed or incorrect payroll interface results and determine whether issues originate in:

o             Workday configuration or worker data

o             Payroll configuration

o             PECI/change detection

o             Connector configuration or mapping

o             ADP/provider processing

o             Integration execution

•              Work effectively with Workday integration developers or ADP technical resources when technical development is required.

•              Integration development is not a primary responsibility. The emphasis is on configuration, functional understanding, monitoring, testing and troubleshooting existing integrations.

Secondary Responsibilities: Time & Attendance / UKG WFM

•              Strong understanding of Time & Attendance processes, including time capture, schedules, overtime, premiums, absence/time-off interaction, approvals and payroll interfaces.

•              Support configuration and troubleshooting of time-related processes affecting payroll.

•              Experience with UKG Workforce Management (UKG WFM) is strongly preferred.

•              Ideally able to:

o             Configure UKG WFM.

o             Support timekeeping and scheduling rules.

o             Develop or support operational reporting.

o             Troubleshoot integrations between UKG WFM, Workday and payroll.

o             Analyze discrepancies between time data and resulting payroll calculations.

•              Understand the end-to-end flow from time capture → Workday/HR data → payroll calculation → payroll provider → employee payment.

Required Experience

•              6–10+ years of HR/payroll systems experience.

•              4–6+ years of hands-on Workday experience, with significant depth in Workday Payroll.

•              Multiple years of production support and configuration experience rather than implementation-only experience.

•              Demonstrated experience supporting payroll operations and resolving production payroll issues.

•              Hands-on experience configuring Workday Payroll and implementing payroll-related regulatory or tax changes.

•              Experience supporting Workday-to-ADP or comparable third-party payroll integrations.

•              Strong working knowledge of PECI and Workday payroll integration concepts.

•              Experience with multi-country or global payroll environments strongly preferred.

•              Experience enabling new payroll countries or populations strongly preferred.

•              UKG WFM experience preferred

Core Technical / Functional Skills

Must Have

1.            Workday Payroll configuration

2.            Payroll processing and operations knowledge

3.            Payroll tax and regulatory configuration

4.            Workday Payroll production troubleshooting

5.            Workday-to-ADP integration knowledge

6.            PECI configuration/support/troubleshooting

7.            Payroll connector configuration and troubleshooting

8.            New-country/payroll-population enablement

9.            Workday reporting and data analysis

10.         Payroll testing and regression testing

Strongly Preferred

1.            ADP SmartConnect

2.            Multi-country/global payroll

3.            UKG WFM

4.            Time & Attendance configuration

5.            UKG reporting and integration troubleshooting

6.            Major legislative/tax change implementation experience

Nice to Have

•              Workday certifications in Payroll and/or related HCM areas

•              Workday Absence/Time Tracking knowledge

•              Experience working in an AMS or managed-services environment

•              Experience supporting Workday release management