Senior Workday Implementation Specialist - Remote

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Workday Implementation Specialist to join our Global Payroll Implementation team at Remote. This remote position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in the global employment landscape. As a Senior Workday Implementation Specialist, you will be responsible for implementing and integrating new customers onto our Remote Global Payroll platform, where Workday serves as the core HCM system. You will ensure accuracy, compliance, and seamless delivery within agreed timelines.

What You'll Do

• 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.
• Analyze 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.
• Provide training and guidance to customers on Workday integration processes, data mapping, and payroll best practices.

Requirements

• 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.
• Excellent 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).
• Self-starter, comfortable working independently and asynchronously across time zones.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken).

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with Monday.com, Notion, Slack, and Salesforce.
• Knowledge of other payroll platforms.

What We Offer

• Flexible paid time off and flexible working hours.
• 16 weeks paid parental leave.
• Mental health support services.
• Stock options and learning budget.
• Home office budget & IT equipment.
• Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces.
• Work from anywhere policy.

Join us as a Senior Workday Implementation Specialist and help shape the future of work in a fully remote environment!