Senior Workday Time and Absence Management Consultant

Barracuda is seeking a Workday Expert focused on Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking (PATT) to lead cross-border deployments in the US and Europe. This contract role involves designing, configuring, testing, and implementing Workday PATT solutions, managing data conversion and integrations, ensuring compliance with local regulations, and driving user adoption. The consultant will partner with HR and Payroll teams to ensure robust, scalable, and audit-ready Workday configurations.

Must Have

• Lead Workday PATT configuration and deployment for EMEA.
• Gather requirements, design solutions, prototype, test, and cutover.
• Migrate legacy data into Workday with data conversion teams.
• Configure and test Workday integrations with third-party systems.
• Troubleshoot complex configuration issues and deliver scalable solutions.
• Facilitate client adoption, user training, and change management.
• Ensure compliance with local payroll, tax, and leave regulations.
• 5+ years configuring Workday Time & Attendance.
• Experience with payroll integration outputs.
• Proficiency in Workday Business Process configuration, rules, tags, and security.
• Excellent stakeholder management.
• Strong documentation, testing, and change control.

Description

Job ID 26-440

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We are seeking a Workday Expert focused on Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking (PATT) to lead cross-border deployments in the US and Europe. The ideal candidate will design, configure, prototype, test, and implement Workday PATT solutions, manage data conversion and integrations, ensure compliance with local regulations, and drive user adoption. This is a contract/temporary role requiring strong stakeholder management and clear, proactive communication.

You’ll partner closely with HR, Payroll, and local country HR to ensure Workday configurations are robust, scalable, and audit-ready.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end configuration and deployment of Workday Payroll, Absence, and Time Tracking for EMEA
• Gather and document client requirements; design solutions; develop prototypes; drive testing and cutover; provide knowledge transfer to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with data conversion teams to migrate legacy data into Workday with high data quality.
• Configure and test integrations between Workday and third-party systems (payroll vendors, benefits providers, etc).
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex configuration issues; deliver scalable, repeatable solutions.
• Facilitate client adoption of best practices; deliver user training and change management activities.
• Maintain client satisfaction; provide regular status updates to PMs; identify risks and improvement opportunities.
• Ensure compliance with local payroll, tax, leave regulations, and privacy requirements (e.g., GDPR); stay current with Workday releases and certifications
• Propose and implement innovative approaches to deploy Workday more efficiently.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on experience configuring Workday Time & Attendance with previous experience for Austria specifically.
• Experience with payroll integration outputs (time calculation results, absence balances, earnings/premiums).
• Proficiency with Workday Business Process configuration, conditional rules, calculation tags, and security for Time/Absence.
• Excellent stakeholder management; ability to work across HR, Payroll, and country HR partners.
• Strong documentation, testing, and change control discipline.

Be a part of the HRIS team that brings a wealth of knowledge and takes a collaborative approach. Our philosophy centers on building strong relationships while guiding functional owners through the process of developing their requirements and refining them to align with system capabilities.

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