Workday Absence & Time Tracking Consultant
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Country: United States
Category: ERP
Workplace Location: Remote
Employment Type: Contract
Posted Date: November 3, 2026
Job ID: 653506
Job Description
Job Title: Workday Absence & Time Tracking Consultant
Job Type: 11-month Contract Opportunity
Location: United States
Onsite Requirements: Remote with Travel to Atlanta, GA - 1x per month
Compensation Range: Hourly rate ranges from $85-$105, based on overall experience and qualifications
Benefits: W2 consultants are eligible for a benefits package
Seeking a skilled Workday consultant to support a multi-entity implementation, providing functional guidance, system configuration, testing, training, change management, and deployment support.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with project stakeholders to drive implementation activities and align business requirements with system capabilities.
- Provide functional guidance, configuration recommendations, and process improvement insights.
- Assess solution designs, identify risks, and support project planning and milestone delivery.
- Translate business needs into scalable system solutions.
- Coordinate testing activities, troubleshoot issues, and support defect resolution.
- Develop training resources and facilitate stakeholder knowledge transfer.
- Support organizational readiness, communications, and adoption of new timekeeping processes.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams and vendors to ensure system and integration alignment.
- Assist with deployment, go-live preparation, and post-launch support.
- Maintain project documentation, decisions, and operational procedures.
Must-have qualifications that candidates must meet to be considered.
- 3+ years of experience supporting end-to-end Workday implementations.
- Strong expertise in Workday Time Tracking, Absence, and Scheduling.
- Experience supporting large hourly or operational workforces.
- Familiarity with physical time clock implementations and timekeeping processes.
- Understanding of timekeeping, scheduling, absence, and payroll integrations.
- Experience managing system testing, troubleshooting, and issue resolution.
- Ability to develop training materials and support end-user adoption.
- Strong communication and stakeholder collaboration skills.
- Comfortable participating in on-camera Teams meetings.
- Self-directed consultant capable of providing strategic guidance and hands-on implementation support.
Nice-to-have skills that would make a candidate more competitive but are not required.
- Experience supporting multi-entity Workday deployments.
- Background working with distributed hourly workforces.
- Knowledge of complex workforce scheduling, labor rules, and absence policies.
- Experience collaborating with payroll, technology, change management, and external vendors.
- Relevant Workday functional certifications preferred.
- Experience supporting go-live, transition, and post-implementation activities
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