Workday Absence Management & Time Tracking Consultant

Introduction
In this role, you’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a consultant you will serve as a client-facing practitioner who sells, leads and implements expert services utilizing the breadth of IBM’s offerings and technologies. A successful Consultant is regarded by clients as a trusted business advisor who collaborates to provide innovative solutions used to solve the most challenging business problems.
You will work developing solutions that excel at user experience, style, performance, reliability and scalability to reduce costs and improve profit and shareholder value.

Your primary responsibilities include:

• Build, automate and release solutions based on clients priorities and requirements.
• Explore and discover risks and resolving issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality and bring to the table potential solutions.
• Make sure that all integration solutions meet the client specifications and are delivered on time.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Workday HCM certification and also certified in Absence Management and/or Time Tracking Consulting Core.
• Competence and relevant experience in leading workshops for WD Absence Management and/or Time Tracking modules in at least 1 project.
• 2+year experience in end-to-end implementation of Absence Management and Time Tracking module for American, European and/or APAC customer businesses is preferred
• Identify Business Requirements for Absence Management and/or Time Tracking work stream and align them to Workday, driving towards decisions and recommending best practices in all phases of the Project.
• Use consulting skills, business knowledge, and packaged solution expertise to effectively implement the functionality into the client’s business environment in order to achieve client expected business results

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Proficiency in Core HCM and advanced reporting in WD Absence
• Desirable to have experience on WD UK or US and Canada Payroll.
• Strong analytical skills to interpret and eventually translate business requirements to system design.