Workday Payroll, Time & Absence Functional Lead

Job summary

Lead the Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence workstream, including requirements and process-design workshops, configuration assessment, and coordination with teams integrating Workday with Oracle Fusion. Oversee testing, defect resolution, payroll readiness, cutover, stabilization, and knowledge transfer while supporting related integrations, reporting, security, data migration, and change management.

Job details

Workday Payroll, Time & Absence Functional Lead Location: Remote within Canada Contract Term: One year with potential for extension Schedule: 40 hours per week Rate: $120–$150 per hour About the Role: Our client is seeking an experienced Workday Payroll, Time & Absence Functional Lead to support a multi-year ERP harmonization initiative within the energy sector. This individual will serve as the functional subject-matter expert for Workday Payroll, Time Tracking and Absence, partnering with HRIS, Payroll, Finance, Digital, integration teams and implementation partners to align the existing Workday environment with Oracle Fusion. Key Responsibilities: Lead the Workday Payroll, Time Tracking and Absence workstream. Facilitate requirements gathering and process-design workshops. Assess existing configurations and identify opportunities for reuse or optimization. Identify configuration gaps associated with the Oracle Fusion integration. Document requirements, design decisions, risks and dependencies. Lead system integration testing, payroll parallel testing, user acceptance testing and payroll validation. Coordinate defect triage and resolution. Review related integrations, data flows and upstream and downstream impacts. Support reporting, security, data migration and change-management activities. Assist with cutover, payroll readiness, hypercare and stabilization. Complete knowledge transfer for internal HRIS, HR and Payroll teams. Required Qualifications: Eight or more years of Workday functional experience. Advanced expertise in Workday Payroll, Time Tracking and Absence. Experience supporting large-scale ERP, business-transformation or system-harmonization initiatives. Proven experience across requirements gathering, solution design, testing, deployment and stabilization. Strong knowledge of payroll processing, time management and absence administration. Experience working with integrations and complex enterprise systems. Strong communication, facilitation and stakeholder-management skills. Preferred Qualifications: Experience supporting acquisitions, mergers, legal-entity consolidations or employee migrations. Experience migrating employees into an existing Workday tenant. Knowledge of unionized workforces and complex pay practices. Familiarity with Canadian payroll legislation and regulatory requirements. Experience in the energy, utilities, manufacturing or industrial sectors. Exposure to Oracle Fusion integrations.

What you’ll do

Lead the Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence workstream, including requirements and process-design workshops, configuration assessment, and coordination with teams integrating Workday with Oracle Fusion. Oversee testing, defect resolution, payroll readiness, cutover, stabilization, and knowledge transfer while supporting related integrations, reporting, security, data migration, and change management.

Requirements

Requires at least eight years of Workday functional experience, advanced expertise in Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence, and experience with large-scale ERP or system-harmonization initiatives across the solution lifecycle. Candidates should have strong payroll, time-management, absence, integration, communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills; Canadian payroll, unionized workforces, employee migrations, and Oracle Fusion exposure are preferred.

Listed skills

• Requirements gathering · Preferred
• Change Management · Preferred
• Stakeholder Management · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Workday Payroll
• Workday Time Tracking
• Workday Absence
• Requirements Gathering
• Process Design
• Configuration Assessment
• Oracle Fusion Integration
• System Integration Testing
• Payroll Parallel Testing
• User Acceptance Testing
• Payroll Validation
• Defect Triage
• Data Migration
• Change Management
• Cutover and Hypercare
• Stakeholder Management

Job areas

• Human Resources
• Technology
• Energy
• Management & Leadership
• Finance & Accounting