Payroll Manager for Workday Alliance in Birmingham

About the role:

PwC has been a leader in delivering Workday services since 2011 with major UK and global clients. As our team develops and grows we are currently looking for highly experienced Senior Workday Delivery Consultants to join our deep experts within our growing Workday Consulting Team. If you want to take your career to the next level, and apply your skills to challenging and business-focussed people transformation programmes, then this could be for you. PwC doesn’t simply configure Workday, but treat Workday as a fundamental element of our business transformation services. Our team members create and apply Workday and broader solutions that re-imagine the possible, bringing business value and improved user and customer experience.

What your days will look like:

• Working in our Workforce Transformation team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution, and collaborating with your colleagues in the wider PwC network to identify and create solutions.
• Leading and managing our client facing Workday projects, taking full responsibility for on time high quality delivery of Discovery, Initial Deployments and Phase X Workday projects for our global clients.
• Taking responsibility for the overall solution design of our client facing Workday HCM projects - across functional modules, integrations or data.
• Ensuring deliverables across the functional, integrations and data workstreams are consistent and of a high quality.
• Working at all levels within our clients’ organisations from C-suite to HR team members to ensure all stakeholder needs are met.
• Soliciting and challenging client requirements with professional scepticism, presenting and facilitating workshops, analysing data, and configuring solutions in Workday.
• Collaborating with your colleagues across our HR and Financials transformation teams, and wider PwC network to identify and create solutions that bring value to our clients.
• Playing your part in our proposition and business development activities.
• Taking responsibility for development of more junior colleagues through career coaching and mentoring.
• Leading and inspiring others, keeping our team a fun place to work.

This role is for you if:

• You are an expert in HR Transformation Consulting as a highly experienced Workday delivery consultant.
• Must possess Workday Consultant Certification (or an international equivalent).
• You have deep Workday HCM expertise, with current proficiency in designing and implementing Workday HCM, preferably with specialism in multiple areas such as: Core HCM, Absence, Time Tracking, Advanced Compensation, or Talent; Integrations, Studio, and Extend; Data migration.
• You have the ability to think beyond technology and understand how to align solutions with strategic business outcomes, with strong digital, data and business analysis skills.
• You are able to build relationships with senior stakeholders including C-suite executives, becoming a trusted advisor and bridging the gap between technology and business.
• You confidently present Workday concepts, identify solutions with reference to your comparable past experience.
• You have the ability to listen to and critique requirements and provide imaginative solutions to challenges, with a demonstrable record of managing people, including onshore and offshore resources, and driving teams to deliver.
• A passion to invest in others, to help them develop in their careers as part of our team, and a sense of pride in delivering high quality work as a trusted advisor to our clients.