HRIT Integrations Lead - Workday Payroll

KION Group•Atlanta, GA

1d•Remote

About The Position

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, KION SCS is a member of KION Group, a global leader in industrial trucks, related services and supply chain solutions. Across more than 100 countries worldwide, the KION Group designs, builds and supports logistics solutions that optimize material and information flow within factories, warehouses and distribution centers. The company is the largest manufacturer of industrial trucks in Europe, the second-largest producer of forklifts globally and a leading provider of warehouse automation. Join our team as a Workday Payroll & Benefits Integration Lead, where you'll play a key role in implementing and supporting Workday Payroll solutions across global operations. You'll collaborate with internal customers and implementation partners to design, develop, and optimize payroll and benefits integrations, ensuring seamless connectivity with upstream and downstream systems. From managing system performance and testing strategies to driving process efficiencies and minimizing operational risks, your expertise will help craft scalable, high-impact solutions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or higher
8+ years of hands-on experience leading large-scale Workday Payroll, Benefits, and Absence Management implementations
Technical integration expertise, including: Workday Cloud Connectors, Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), APIs / Web Services
Proven track record of driving operational improvements and inspiring change
Strong team teamwork and credibility in high-performance environments
Up-to-date knowledge of industry trends and strategic value delivery
Excellent communication—able to simplify sophisticated topics for executive audiences
Skilled in client engagement, needs assessment, and documentation
Experienced in capturing and prioritizing business requirements
Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills

Nice To Haves

Workday Studio strongly preferred
Experience integrating Workday with SAP, UltiPro, UKG, or other enterprise payroll/time systems (preferred)
Willing to travel up to 10% (US & EMEA)

Responsibilities

Responsible for payroll and benefits integrations through implementing Workday payroll solution with an agreed Functional design
Responsible for supporting the Workday Payroll implementation during Hypercare and post go-live of the Project
Responsible for working with the implementation partner and internal business partners on detailed functional design for payroll integrations
Work on System Performance management, planning and monitoring of maintenance strategies for the cloud solution
Improving process efficiencies, enhancing cost savings, minimizing operational risk exposure, and optimizing integrations for functional efficiencies
Implement testing plans (A/B) for payroll integrations
Participate in meetings and build trust with internal business customers, understand business objectives and seeks alignment
Define and implement integrations to upstream and downstream systems
Manage and understand functional architecture analysis, research, design and development of new functionality and integration with key applications and services
Monitor Risks / Issues and prepare appropriate mitigation plans
Ensure standard methodologies are followed and required processes and specifications are documented
Support to sign-off/change management process on technical changes proposed to responsible systems
Design, develop, and support of technical integrations to both Workday Payroll and Benefits and Workday HCM according to KGIT standards
Responsible for the high-level design and end-to-end solutions based upon product strategy and functionality and relevant risk mitigating strategies
Collaborate with Global payroll team and Workday product management in conversations to understand the strategic direction of Workday's Global Payroll solutions
Identify design, deployment obstacles and opportunities to optimize current functionality and integrate with third party solutions such as UKG Workforce management