Manager - Payroll Workday Function - IT/ITeS

About The Company:

ARA's client is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud, and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, they offer Strategy and Consulting, Technology, and Operations Services, all powered by the world's largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Their people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. They embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for their clients, people, shareholders, partners, and communities.

The Role:

Payroll Workday Function Manager

Key Responsibilities:

- Develop a trusted relationship with various HR, Workday, IT teams and with Payroll Advisors and Local payroll teams leads.

- Work closely with Global Payroll Functional Lead to communicate issues, resolutions and opportunities.

- Work with the HR, Workday, Payroll Advisors and Local Payroll Teams to identify the key pain points and priorities, understanding constraints including cost, quality, effectiveness and other factors

- Drive a process mindset to ensure proper strategic alignment, prioritization, standardization and impact of projects and initiatives.

- Work closely with functional area on project priorities, plans, reporting and understanding project risks and status. Ensure cross team involvement is occurring as needed.

- Ability to build a regional roadmap aligned to the payroll standard taking into consideration process, people, technology, vendor, data measurement etc.

- Flexible working schedule to manage priorities across all time zones

Skills Required:

- Timings will be to support as per US Shift Eastern Daylight Time.

- Workday HCM

- Workday integration to 3rd party payroll systems

- Program Management

- Journey and Change management

- Team leadership and facilitation

- Relationship development and management at all levels, including with senior leaders (C Suite)

- Business and functional acumen

- Strategic thinking (Ops strategy, strategic planning, etc.)

- Strategy execution (taking strategy to execution)

- Understanding and Deployment of the FORM methodology

- Capacity planning / modelling / Metric defintion

- Process Improvement concepts and tools

- Safe Agile

- Workday Payroll

Work Experience: 10+ years