Senior Workday Implementation Specialist

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Senior Workday Implementation Specialist

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future-focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform. If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

Senior Workday Implementation Specialist

In this exciting role you will be responsible for implementing and integrating multiple new customers onto our Remote Global Payroll platform where Workday serves as the core HCM system, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and seamless delivery within agreed timescales. You will report to the Manager, Global Payroll Workday Implementations.

What You Bring

Proven experience implementing or integrating Workday HCM, ideally within a global payroll or HRIS context.
Strong understanding of Workday modules including Core HCM, Compensation, Absence, Time Tracking, and Integrations.
Experience delivering end-to-end payroll implementations leveraging Workday as the source of truth for HR and employee data.
Demonstrated ability to map and validate data between Workday and external payroll systems, ensuring compliance and data accuracy.
Excellent and proficient understanding of global payroll operations, statutory compliance, and multi-country payroll setup.
Strong customer onboarding and project management experience for complex, multi-entity implementations.
Advanced data management and analysis skills (Google Sheets or Excel).
An analytical, detail-oriented mindset with strong problem-solving abilities.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, international environment with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
Strong communication and relationship-building skills with a customer‑first mindset.
Self-starter, comfortable working independently and asynchronously across time zones.
Fluent in English (written and spoken).
Experience working remotely is a plus.
Familiarity with Monday.com, Notion, Slack, and Salesforce is a plus.
Knowledge of other payroll platforms is a plus.

Key Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end Workday payroll integrations for large and complex customers, ensuring successful setup, data migration, and go‑live.
Serve as the primary technical and functional point of contact for customers implementing Remote’s Global Payroll integrated with Workday.
Analyse customers’ Workday environments to understand data structures, configurations, and dependencies for integration into Remote’s systems.
Manage the data extraction, transformation, and validation processes between Workday and Remote’s Global Payroll platform.
Partner closely with customers’ HRIS, Payroll, and IT teams to align HCM‑to‑Payroll data flows, ensuring accurate configuration and compliance.
Configure Remote’s Payroll system on a customer‑by‑customer basis, ensuring adherence to local regulations and tax requirements.
Coordinate and validate parallel payroll runs, reconciliations, and year‑to‑date adjustments to confirm setup accuracy.
Oversee payroll go‑live readiness, ensuring all integrations, validations, and compliance checks are complete.
Transition customers to Payroll Operations teams with complete and accurate configuration documentation.
Provide training and guidance to customers on Workday integration processes, data mapping, and payroll best practices.
Maintain strong customer relationships to drive satisfaction, adoption, and retention.
Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying opportunities for automation, scalability, and process optimisation.
Maintain the confidentiality and integrity of customer and employee data at all times.
Participate in quality assurance reviews of peer implementations to ensure consistency and compliance with Remote’s standards.
Support the creation and maintenance of Workday integration playbooks and internal process documentation.

Practicals

Reporting to: Manager, Global Payroll Implementations
Team: Global Payroll Implementations
Location: Fully remote
Start date: ASAP

Remote Compensation Philosophy

Remote’s Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap‑labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above‑in‑location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent‑hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries. The base salary range may be subject to change.

The annual salary range for this full‑time position is €75,000—€84,000 EUR.

Benefits

Work from anywhere
Flexible paid time off
Flexible working hours (async)
16 weeks paid parental leave
Mental health support services
Stock options
Learning budget
Home office budget & IT equipment
Budget for local in‑person social events or co‑working spaces

How You’ll Plan Your Day (and Life)

We work async at Remote, so you can plan your schedule around your life, not around meetings. Your life‑work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

How To Apply

Please fill out the form below and upload your CV in PDF format.
Submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use at Remote.
If you don’t have an up‑to‑date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We encourage applicants from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under‑represented group to apply, and we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask and encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter. Please tell us your pronouns at interview stage and you have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire. As an equal employment opportunity employer, we aim for a workforce that reflects diverse backgrounds and experiences.