Senior Workday Implementation Specialist

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as a Senior Workday Implementation Specialist, joining our Global Payroll Implementation team.

In your 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 be reporting 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

• You'll report to: Manager, Global Payroll Implementations
• Team: Global Payroll Implementations
• Location: For this position we welcome everyone to apply,
• 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. At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.

At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.

Application process

1. Interview with Recruiter
2. Interview with Manager, Global Payroll Implementation
3. Interview with Senior Director, Global Payroll Implementation
4. Bar Raiser Interview
5. Prior employment verification check(s)