Workday Payroll, Time & Absence Functional Lead Professional Services
Remote Contract Sep 28, 2026
Our client is a leading energy company known for reliable service, operational excellence, and a strong commitment to the customers and communities it serves. The Workday Payroll, Time & Absence Functional Lead will support a multi-year ERP harmonization initiative, optimizing payroll, time tracking, and absence processes across the organization. This is a full time contraction position that is remote in the United States, with a pay range of $120.00-$140.00 per hour.
Responsibilities
Lead Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence workstream as part of the ERP harmonization program.
Act as the primary functional advisor on Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence best practices.
Drive design decisions, identify risks, and recommend scalable solutions aligned with the organization’s existing Workday configuration.
Facilitate workshops and requirements sessions with business stakeholders and subject matter experts.
Document functional requirements, design decisions, assumptions, dependencies, and open items.
Required Qualifications
8+ years of Workday functional experience with expertise in Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence.
Deep functional knowledge of Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence, with the ability to advise on best practices, process optimization, and scalable solution design.
Experience supporting Workday workstreams within large-scale ERP, business transformation, or system harmonization initiatives.
Proven ability to lead requirements gathering, solution design, testing, deployment, and stabilization activities across complex, cross-functional programs.
Demonstrated success partnering with HRIS, Payroll, business stakeholders, Digital teams, integration resources, and external implementation partners.
Strong understanding of payroll processing, time management, absence administration, and operational business processes.
Experience working in complex, multi-stakeholder environments with competing priorities and dependencies.
Strong communication, facilitation, decision-making, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence outcomes across technical and business teams.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience implementing Workday Payroll for acquisitions, mergers, legal entity consolidations, or employee population migrations.
Experience migrating employees into an existing Workday tenant rather than completing a net-new deployment.
Knowledge of unionized workforce considerations, complex pay practices, and workforce compliance requirements.
Exposure to Canadian Payroll processes, legislation, and regulatory requirements.
Experience in the energy, utilities, manufacturing, or industrial sector.
What We Offer
401K retirement plan
Medical and dental benefits for qualifying professionals or Fixed Indemnity Health Benefits
Flex spending account
Pet Insurance
Credit Union Membership
Sick Leave available where mandated by law
Worker Advantage discount program membership
Voluntary Supplemental Insurance
Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy: Employment Enterprises, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer. We recruit, employ, assign, train, compensate and promote without regard to race, color, sex, age, disability, religion, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, ancestry, U.S. Veteran status, or any other protected category under applicable law.
Employment Enterprises, Inc is the parent company of Temporary Solutions, Inc. Temporary Solutions is a workforce solutions company based out of 10550 Linden Lake Plaza, Suite 200, Manassas, VA 20109. You can reach our recruiters about this job and more at 703-361-2220 or email recruiters@eeihr.com.
