Workday Data Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:  

• Be a Workday product expert with knowledge of design, configuration, testing and implementation.  

• Reinforces company policies and procedures to others.  

• Drives and makes decisions regarding tactical direction of project workstreams.  

• Identifies dependencies and supports interplay between different workstreams within a project.  

• Leads, mentors, and oversees the work of other Consultants within their projects.  

• Design and generate data tracking and monitoring tools, and develop reports with accurate, easy to read, useful information.

• Identify strategies, risks, and options, recommend approaches and mitigations to meet client requirements. 

• Coordinate and lead cross functional discussions related to the execution of a Workday tenant build. 

• Use your technical aptitude to map data sources into Workday using Workday delivered and Cognizant built tools for the data conversion process. 

• Guide clients through the data extract and cleansing process. 

• Load customer data, migrate configuration from tenant to tenant, identify risks and issues to the overall conversion process, troubleshoot load issues, and document issues. 

• Create scrips to transform and load data and create strategies to improve and normalize client data. 

• Lead the validation of data loaded into Workday. Work with the customer to ensure they understand the data validation process.

• Regularly engage and support the client through all phases of the project, ensuring a smooth transfer from legacy systems to the Workday solutions. 

• Perform multiple tasks under limited direction, while regularly keeping the client, your project team, and your Engagement Manager abreast of changes or progress related to the project.

• Willingness to take a leadership position on a project.  

• Use your technical aptitude to convert and map data sources into data conversion templates via all Workday load methods.  

• Act as a mentor to fellow consultants and analysts, including providing support for shadow assignments.  

• Actively participate in update training and internal opportunities to share one’s skills and learnings with others within the organization.  

• Additional duties as assigned by manager.  

Skills & Requirements:  

• Bachelor’s degree required or equivalent.  

• 2+ years of Workday functional implementation experience, required. Workday Student experienced candidates are preferred. 

• 2+ years Human Resources, Payroll, Student or Financial software experience, required. 

• Experience with data conversion, data mining, and data loading

• Demonstrated functional experience in Human Resources, Payroll, Student or Financials Management. 

• Minimal travel required, but must be willing to travel on-site if needed