Cognizant

Workday Payroll, Absence and Time Tracking Consultant - Global AMS (Application Managed Services)

Cognizant$124K — $159K *
US-Anywhere
+ 5 other locationsRemote
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
  • 3+ years of Workday HCM Configuration experience in client-facing roles
  • Workday certification preferred
  • Strong multitasking abilities in a dynamic environment
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills
  • Commitment to resolving customer issues
  • Analytical problem-solving skills for complex incidents

Responsibilities

  • Serve as an onshore consultant for assigned accounts
  • Implement AMS methodologies in Workday engagements
  • Collaborate with the Global Delivery Center team for daily activities
  • Provide on-call and holiday support as needed
  • Ensure adherence to SLA constructs
  • Coordinate with stakeholders for high-impact business solutions
  • Develop dashboards for improved Workday utilization

Benefits

  • Entrepreneurial work environment encouraging new ideas
  • Opportunities for impactful work
  • Community outreach programs
  • Learning initiatives for career advancement
  • Global opportunities in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific
  • Access to various affinity groups
Full Job Description

The Workday Payroll, Absence and Time Tracking Consultant – Global AMS (Global Application Managed Services) is a well experienced post-production Workday professional who is dynamic, fast-paced, and familiar with the managed services construct. As a Workday Payroll, Absence and Time Tracking Consultant, you will bring your functional and business skills, ability to keep the business context in sight, and roll-up-your-sleeves work ethic to a team with a positive, can-do attitude, a collaborative culture, and a passion for helping our clients to be successful.

Responsibilities:

  • Onshore Consultant who works on Functional/Technical workstream for the assigned set of accounts, specifically in Payroll, Absence & Time Tracking.
  • Apply and execute various AMS (Application Managed Services) & Implementationmethodologies/activities in these Workday Functional/Technical engagements
  • Should collaboratively work with the Global Delivery Center (GDC) team on day-to-day activities, incidents, root cause analysis, and other work requests
  • Provides on-call support and holiday coverage as required
  • Deep knowledge in SLA constructs and adherence
  • Coordinate with external and internal stakeholders to create high business impact.
  • Contribute to the operational efficiency of the Workday practice.
  • Proactively identify and develop reporting dashboards to improve Workday utilization, creating solutions that support metrics for HR and the business at large.
  • Work with clients to identify/resolve all issues that could impact project scope and/or timeframe.
  • Maintain the Workday platform with a focus on reporting (including scheduled reports), business process maintenance, security administration, data loads and data audits
  • Ensures system design fits the needs of the user.
  • Comfortable with leading multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, prioritize tasks effectively, and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
  • Ability to ensure team delivers the project deliverables on time and do consistent timely reminders with vendors and project team
  • Drive continual business processes improvements throughout the organization

Skills & Requirements:

  • Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
  • Minimum of 3 years of Workday HCM, Payroll, Absence and Time Tracking Configuration experience and experience in client facing roles handling managed services in a global delivery model
  • Must be Workday Certified
  • Able to multitask and perform a variety of duties
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills
  • Willingness to go the extra mile to solve customer problems.
  • Good Analytical skills with ability to solve complex incidents, provide suggestions\best practice

Salary and Other Compensation

The annual salary for this position is between CAD 124,717 - CAD 159,040 depending on the experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate. This position is also eligible for Cognizants discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizants applicable plans, as well as benefits that support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

About Cognizant

TriZetto is Powering Integrated Healthcare Management. With technology solutions touching more than half the U.S. population today, TriZetto is uniquely positioned to drive the convergence of core benefit administration, care management and constituent engagement. TriZetto provides premier information technology solutions that enable payers and other constituents in the healthcare supply chain to improve the coordination of benefits and care for healthcare consumers.

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Size
340,400 employees
Market Cap
$28.7 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1.3 billion
Founded
1994
5 Year Trend
+6.5%
Revenue
$16.6 billion
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