The Role: Workday Migration Consultant
Location: Reading, UK
Position Type: Contract Inside IR35
Remote work option Available: 3- Days Work from Office
Job Description:
Your responsibilities:
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Analyze and understand existing Workday data structures and business processes.
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Lead and support end-to-end data migration activities from Workday to a new payroll platform.
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Gather, extract, transform, cleanse, validate, and reconcile data throughout the migration lifecycle.
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Collaborate with business stakeholders, payroll teams, and technical teams to ensure data accuracy and completeness.
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Develop data mapping documents and migration strategies.
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Identify and resolve data quality issues and migration-related risks.
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Perform migration testing, validation, and post-migration support activities.
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Ensure compliance with data governance, security, and privacy requirements.
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Support project timelines and provide regular status updates to stakeholders.
Essential skills/knowledge/experience:
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Proven experience (8+) working experience in Workday Data Migration and Workday Integration exposure.
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Appropriate degree or relevant professional qualifications.
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Experience of systems development change lifecycles, best practices and approaches.
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Strong experience working with Workday HCM and related business processes.
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Proven experience in data migration projects, preferably involving HR and payroll systems.
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Experience with data extraction, transformation, cleansing, validation, and reconciliation.
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Understanding of employee, organizational, payroll, and workforce data structures.
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Ability to analyze complex data sets and troubleshoot migration issues.
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Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
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Ability to work independently in a fast-paced project environment.
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Experience migrating data from Workday to payroll platforms or other HCM solutions.
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Knowledge of payroll processes and payroll data structures.
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Experience with Workday reporting, EIBs, integrations, or data conversion tools.
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Workday certification is an added advantage
