[Remote] Workday Global Payroll Consultant (Third-Party Payroll)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Intecrowd LLC is a company founded by former Workday clients that emphasizes partnership and engagement in their business. They are seeking a Workday Global Payroll Consultant to support the design and deployment of international payroll solutions leveraging third-party providers, ensuring alignment between Workday HCM and external payroll systems.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the functional lead for global payroll design, defining how Workday supports payroll processing through third-party providers
- Translate business requirements into end-to-end payroll process designs spanning Workday and external payroll systems
- Configure Workday Payroll components where required to support third-party payroll models, including:
- Payroll inputs and outputs
- Pay groups and payroll calendars
- Earning and deduction structures aligned to vendor requirements
- Data structures supporting outbound and inbound integrations
- Define and document:
- Payroll data flows (Workday → vendor → Workday)
- Country-specific payroll considerations and dependencies
- Roles and responsibilities across HR, Payroll, and vendor teams
- Partner with integration teams to ensure interfaces are designed and built in alignment with payroll requirements, including:
- Worker and organizational data exports
- Compensation, benefits, and time data feeds
- Payroll results inbound integrations
- Collaborate directly with global payroll vendors (ADP, CloudPay, etc.) to align on:
- File specifications and data mapping
- Payroll calendars and cutoffs
- Data validation and processing expectations
- Support global payroll testing cycles, including:
- Parallel payroll testing
- Payroll input/output validation
- Issue triage across Workday, integration, and vendor teams
- Identify and resolve gaps between Workday configuration and vendor payroll requirements
- Advise clients on global payroll operating model decisions, including:
- Centralized vs decentralized payroll
- Standardization vs localization
- Governance and ownership across regions
- Provide post-go-live support, helping stabilize payroll operations and optimize integrations
- Contribute to development of global payroll accelerators, templates, and best practices
Skills
- 5–10+ years of experience in global payroll, HCM consulting, or payroll transformation initiatives
- Hands-on experience supporting Workday deployments integrated with third-party payroll providers (e.g., ADP GlobalView, ADP Celergo, CloudPay, Safeguard, etc.)
- Experience configuring Workday Payroll components in support of third-party payroll integrations (not full in-country payroll processing)
- Strong understanding of payroll inputs, outputs, and data dependencies
- Strong understanding of payroll calendars, cutoffs, and processing cycles
- Strong understanding of multi-country payroll considerations
- Experience working with global payroll vendors and service providers
- Experience working with integration teams (functional collaboration, not development)
- Experience with data mapping and payroll file validation
- Experience supporting payroll testing (parallel runs, reconciliation)
- Experience supporting multi-country or global deployments
- Strong client-facing communication skills and ability to manage multiple stakeholders
- Experience with ADP GlobalView, ADP Celergo, CloudPay, or similar platforms
- Workday HCM or Payroll certification
- Experience supporting global Workday deployments across multiple regions
- Understanding of integration concepts (e.g., EIB, PECI) without being a technical developer
Company Overview
- Intecrowd is a Workday services partner with strong expertise in initial deployment, phase X, and post-production support for HCM, Financials, Adaptive Planning, Integrations, Extend, and more. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in Orlando, Florida, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://www.intecrowd.com/.
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