Years Experience - 8-10 and must have UK Payroll Certification

Successful candidates will need to be UK Workday Payroll Certified.

Role Details:

Strong understanding of Workday Payroll, Time Tracking and Absence products and the interdependencies with Benefits, Time Tracking and Absence as well as other cross functional capabilities

Experience with Payroll regulatory requirements (Tax, Garnishments, Common Pay Master), retirement benefits (401K, etc.), payroll processing, FLSA, Unions/Collective Bargaining Agreements and payroll accounting.

Excellent customer focus, able to assess customer needs, build relationships and manage customer expectations. You will know when to push back, when to escalate, and when to go above and beyond to satisfy a customer

Strong communicator, able to communicate with customers and colleagues with impact, credibility and empathy, including in a remote working situation. Sound ability to formally present to senior Client audiences

Strong commercial awareness and full understanding of project and business dynamics

Broad business and technology understanding and a good awareness of industry trends in either Human Resource management, Financials or Enterprise Resource Planning or Payroll

Ability to work to tight deadlines and make sensible decisions under pressure taking a balanced view of Customer demands and Kainos commercials

Ability to widen and maintain a network of external contacts

Strong consulting skills eg presenting, leading workshops, demonstrating and explaining complex functionality or solutions to customers

Able to lead a functional workstream on a prime implementation throughout the full project life cycle

Able to become an acknowledged subject matter expert eg Workday Product Lead

Willing and able to act as a role model within the capability and mentor and/or line manage more junior consultants

Willing and able to support the sales process including the production of estimates for the delivery of work packages

Able to implement improvements in tools and/or processes to help the practice

Commercial understanding of utilisation within a services organisation and the importance of these targets

Able to rotate through various Workday delivery services, specifically Consulting and Application Management Services

For Application Management Services, able to deliver work to meet defined Service Level Agreements

Able, if required, to travel to customer sites in the same region (minimal out of region travel may also be required)

Must have:

Workday HCM and Payroll Certification

Professional qualifications in your area of expertise (Certified Payroll Professional (CPP)

Experience in post deployment services

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT:

Your role may or may not involve managing people. Where you do have direct reports your responsibilities may include:
Agreeing, setting and reviewing your and your team's goals aligned to Kainos, Workday BU and your Capability

Providing support so that your and your team's goals can be achieved

Reviewing and refining goals for relevance and to keep performance on track

Reviewing performance against goals and provide feedback

Conducting 1:1 monthly and/or project completion feedback meetings

Requesting and providing regular feedback in Workday

Completing End of Year reviews and agreeing the outcomes for the year

Identifying training to support your and your team's development

Pursuing and supporting your and your team members' career paths and progression

Reviewing weekly workload forecasting (staff allocations and timesheet checks) and utilisation

Actively being involved in recruitment/interviews

Reviewing attrition and retention metrics