Workday HCM & Benefits Consultant
Location: Remote
LOA: 4 months + extension
Start Date: June 2026
Schedule Flexibility: Must maintain a working schedule that significantly overlaps with India
Position Overview
- Seeking a hands-on Workday HCM Consultant for a 4+ month remote contract to guide an offshore team and drive critical HRIS initiatives. In this role, you will work with a team of 4–6 India-based HRIS Analysts handling small-to-medium enhancements for Workday HCM. You will serve as the HCM & Benefits Expert and configuration gatekeeper, ensuring all system changes are thoroughly reviewed and secured before production releases.
- A significant focus of this contract will be preparing for the upcoming India Open Enrollment and executing a major revamp of the Onboarding and Termination processes.
Key Responsibilities
- Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and coordinate daily deliverables for an offshore team of 4–6 Workday Analysts.
- Hands-on Configuration & QA: Review and audit complex HCM configurations, business processes, and security groups built by the staff prior to release deployment to ensure system integrity.
- Project Delivery: Drive the end-to-end execution of the upcoming India Open Enrollment cycle and the strategic overhaul of the Onboarding and Termination life cycles.
- Module Expertise: Provide subject matter expertise and hands-on support across core Workday HCM, Benefits, Compensation, and Performance Management.
- Stakeholder Communication: Act as the primary liaison between the technical offshore team and the business, effectively communicating project status, risks, and timelines to manager-level leadership and below.
Required Qualifications
- Experience: 5+ years of hands-on Workday configuration experience, with a proven track record in a Principal Consultant capacity.
- Core Functional Expertise: Deep configuration experience in Workday Benefits, Compensation, and Performance Management. Experience managing Open Enrollment cycles is highly preferred.
- Technical & Security Skills: Strong expertise in Workday Business Processes (BPs) and Workday Security Config (Configurable Security, Role-Based/User-Based security groups).
- Soft Skills: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders ranging from analysts to managers
Thanks
Harpreet
Email: Harpreet.kaur2@infostride.com
