Job Title: Workday Lead HCM and Financial Functional Lead;

Location: Downtown (Loop Area), Chicago, IL; t

Duration: Long term Contract

Mode of Work: ONSITE

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Job Description:

We are seeking a seasoned Workday Lead HCM and Financial Functional Lead for a high impact, three month engagement supporting a critical phase of a Workday implementation. This role is responsible for leading structured functional discovery with HR and Finance leadership, translating complex business, regulatory, and operational requirements into clear Workday specific functional requirements, and supporting execution through procurement and early delivery phases.

The consultant will provide functional leadership across HCM and Financial domains, ensure requirements are clearly documented and traceable, and enable an objective, defensible evaluation and implementation approach

Key Responsibilities

Lead structured discovery workshops with HR, Finance, Payroll, Budget, Procurement, and related stakeholders to document current state processes, pain points, regulatory considerations, and prioritized future state objectives
Own and maintain the functional scope and assumptions package, including in scope and out of scope definitions, dependencies, risks, constraints, and recommended implementation phasing
Author, review, and finalize Workday HCM and Financials functional content, including requirements, workflows, business rules, security roles, controls, reporting, and compliance considerations, written with sufficient clarity to support vendor execution
Define proposal level expectations for integrations and data conversion, including key interfaces, source and target systems, data flows, and third party dependencies
Establish clear and consistent expectations for system integrator delivery approaches, including design, configuration, testing, training, change management, cutover, and stabilization, to enable comparable vendor proposals
Manage the execution cadence by maintaining the workplan, facilitating weekly working sessions, tracking decisions, and maintaining RAID logs
Coordinate with IT, Security, and Procurement teams to ensure alignment between functional, technical, and sourcing requirements
Serve as the primary Workday functional liaison between business stakeholders and the selected system integrator
Validate functional designs and configuration decisions against approved requirements, scope, and assumptions
Support testing strategy execution, including UAT planning, defect triage, and prioritization
Assist with change management readiness, training alignment, and business process adoption activities
Support cutover planning and post go live stabilization
Provide continuity from procurement through early implementation delivery

Qualifications

Proven experience leading Workday HCM and Financials functional discovery, requirements definition, and scope and assumptions development
Workday Pro Certification required in at least one primary functional domain (HCM or Financials); additional Workday certifications strongly preferred
Demonstrated experience authoring or contributing to Workday RFIs or RFPs and related procurement artifacts, including requirements matrices, evaluation criteria, and demo scripts
Strong working knowledge of Workday business processes across HCM, Payroll, Finance, Budget, and Procurement
Ability to facilitate cross functional workshops, reconcile competing priorities, and document decisions with audit and procurement ready traceability
Demonstrated ability to deliver high quality written deliverables under tight timelines while managing stakeholders, approvals, and dependencies within a three month engagement

Neumeric Technologies Corporation

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