Workday Payroll Manager

Huron • Chicago, IL

1d • $130,000 - $175,000 • Remote

About The Position

Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation and navigate constant change. Through a combination of strategy, expertise and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital and cultural transformation, enabling the change they need to own their future. Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future. The multi-faceted role you’ve been looking for… Managers play a vibrant, integral role at Huron. Their invaluable knowledge reflects in the projects they manage and the teams they lead. Known for being politically savvy, they build long-standing relationships with clients, while collaborating with colleagues to solve their most important challenges. They plan, shape and deliver technology solutions that deliver results and seamlessly align with client goals, visions and missions. Remarkably versatile, our Managers also spend significant time mentoring junior staff on the engagement team—where they tirelessly share expertise as well as feedback and encouragement. This benefits Huron profoundly as it promotes a culture of respect, unity, collaboration and personal achievement. Our environment inspires and rewards growth… As a Manager, you have the unique ability to specialize in certain areas of enterprise software products that showcase and employ your areas of expertise while pursuing your “career vision”. Huron is big enough to offer the opportunity and exposure you need for your career growth—but small enough to give you individual attention for your professional development. Every Manager adds to who we are as an organization—and the more you evolve, the more we do. An exciting career experience awaits you where you’ll be challenged to discover your true potential: It’s analytically rigorous… it’s practical… it’s entrepreneurial… it’s intellectually stimulating—and most definitely—it’s career-defining. It’s the Huron way. We see what’s possible in you and help you achieve it.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a field related to this position or equivalent work experience
• 4+ years of related experience implementing Workday
• Must have Payroll lead experience
• 2+ years of related project leadership experience

Nice To Haves

• Healthcare client experience is a big plus
• Workday certification in the following: Core HCM or Payroll
• Prior management consulting experience in HR transformation
• Institutional strategic planning
• Project financial management
• Client executive relationship management
• Multiple cradle to grave implementation experience
• Excellent communication skills - oral and written - and the interpersonal skills needed to quickly to establish relationships of trust and collaboration
• A desire and willingness to learn new tools, techniques, concepts, and methodologies
• Willingness to travel up to 50%

Responsibilities

• Plan, shape and deliver technology solutions that deliver results and seamlessly align with client goals, visions and missions.
• Mentoring junior staff on the engagement team—where they tirelessly share expertise as well as feedback and encouragement.
• Contribute on multiple projects of differing scale and duration.
• Translate information from meetings into documentation that can be shared with meeting participants and project teams.
• Train and participate in the professional development of Huron staff in both project management and technical dimensions.

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision coverage
• wellness programs
• annual incentive compensation program
• medical, dental, and vision coverage to employees and dependents
• a 401(k) plan with a generous employer match
• an employee stock purchase plan
• a generous Paid Time Off policy
• paid parental leave and adoption assistance
• Wellness Program supports employee total well-being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work, and on-site workshops, as well as ongoing programs recognizing major events in the lives of our employees throughout the year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager