Workday Administrator

Farreen Seirafi

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/farreen-seirafi-76482220/

Present Location: Wesley Chapel South, FL

Preferred Work Location: Remote

Supplier Comments:

• Farreen Seirafi is a certified Workday professional with extensive experience in HCM, Core and Advanced Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, and Time Tracking.

• He has led and supported multiple global implementations, enhancements, and compensation cycles, including complex bonus and stock structures.

• Known for his strong functional expertise and ability to drive process improvements.

• He effectively bridges business needs with technical solutions and has a proven track record of supporting end-to- end Workday configurations, reporting, and training. Summary:

• Workday savvy Certified professional who has implemented Workday HCM and advanced Compensation, built EIB integrations for payroll and benefits processing and developed calculated fields for custom reports. Education:

• B.A. in Sociology with a Minor in Labor Relations - Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2009 Certifications:

• Workday Compensation

• Workday Advanced Compensation

• Workday Benefits

• Workday Time Tracking and Absence Payroll

• Performance and Talent HCM

Professional Experience:

PCAOB, Washington DC, Virginia Feb 2025 – March 2025 Workday Total Rewards Consultant

• Worked closely on the design and implementation of leave of absence in Workday

• Worked closely on implementation and design of one-time payment

• Within total rewards provided the definition and types of evaluation of change that can be done within Workday Campbell’s, Camden, NJ Dec 2023 – Sep 2024

Workday HCM Owner

• Responsible for Workday Compensation, Payroll, Benefits, Time Tracking and Absence enhancing these modules

• Design and support HCM with the annual performance review and goal processes as well as defect management

• Led time tracking and absence meetings with team on weekly basis to determine if issues and enhancements are required addressing

• Led Payroll meetings with Payroll team on weekly basis to address concerns regarding Payroll's work stream as well as priorities for enhancements

• Reviewed with the functional areas where the HRIT team can enhance and improve

• Troubleshooting and providing best solution for business-as-usual tasks for functional areas I support

• Reevaluated processes for Workday to update internal end users Maximus, McLean, Virginia Nov 2021- Oct 2023

Senior HRIS Analyst

• Managed team of three that developed security, reevaluated business process configuration and reporting design strategy for Compensation and Advanced Compensation

• Reevaluated processes for Workday to update internal end users, conducted testing and recommended relevant upgrades to the leadership team several times a year

• Drove Human Resource business process enhancements, created and designed customized reports depending on organizational needs and specialize in the advanced reports in Payroll, Compensation and Performance areas that require more in depth review, discussion and understanding of reports

• Utilized Workday Extend to build custom processes for the performance management and compensation

• Developed regression test planning schedule and scripts and collaborated with HR and HRIS to trained them on testing requirements and expected outcomes

• Developed user guides and manuals on Workday’s processes, wrote and distributed customized manager training materials

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Adviser Compliance Associates, Morristown, NJ Sep 2018 – June 2019 Human Resources Systems Administrator

• Managed three systems in UKG, iCIMS, and Deltek and developed all reports and maintained system structures

• Served as project manager for Compensation Module configuration, Absence Management, Benefits and Payroll UKG configurations

• Coordinated and collaborated with payroll and benefits administrators on system configuration requirements, end user practices and data collection.

• Conducted preliminary analysis of business processes to develop guidelines and documentation for UKG IJA Strategies, Farmington Hills, MI Jan 2018 – Sep 2018 Senior Workday Lead Architect

• Served as Advanced Compensation Architect for compensation configuration on an international client with complex design requirements for their global compensation structure

• Involved in analyzation of business process and developing specified documents accordingly including Time Tracking and Absence conditions development and testing

• Conducted one-one sessions and Knowledge transfer sessions with peers and business owners to help resolve the issues.

• Involved in analyzation of business process and developing specified documents accordingly

• While serving as Functional Design Lead for global implementation, successfully developed the testing timeline and synchronization with integrations testing

• Developed summarization of materials for deployment process for Merit, Bonus and Stock functionality unique for each country in scope

• Managed direct reports for the testing work stream while serving as Functional Design Lead, developing the specific goals and responsibilities for each member of the testing team Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York, NY June 2016 – Sep 2016 HRIS Consultant

• Partner with HR, Benefits, Payroll and Compensation teams to review and incorporate enhancements to Workday functionality

• Building complex reports with use of advanced calculated fields. Experience in building nbox and search reports

• Tested critical Reports & integrations, leveraging new functionality, and worked with end-users to map out the requirements

• Troubleshoot and fix Workday related issues pertaining to Workday security, sensitive data or functionality

• Key resource, responsible for maintaining the HRIS inbox including day to day responsibilities such as developing custom reports for HR, Benefits and Payroll teams; validating delivered and custom reports are working as designed

• Central point of contact for all executive total rewards including compensation and benefits KPMG, Roseland, NJ Jan 2014- Dec 2015

Senior HRIS Principal Consultant

• Functional Design Lead for Fortune 500 international client with 36 countries in scope for their global Workday implementation

• While serving as Functional Design Lead for global implementation, successfully developed the testing timeline and synchronization with integrations testing

• Managed three direct reports for the testing work stream while serving as Functional Design Lead, developing the specific goals and responsibilities for each member of the testing team

• Developed long term solution for benchmarking and job classification for global implementation to work within the project timeline

• Developed Workday compensation model and provided analysis in support for Executive compensation

• Lead for developing global security and reporting design strategy

• Developed security matrix with local country specific requirements

• Configured segment-based security for compensation plans

• Served as reporting lead developing complex reports to support HR BP’s, Compensation, Time Tracking and Absence Management; Total Rewards team and Payroll Administrators Accenture, New York, NY June 2012 – Jan 2014

HRIS Principal Consultant

• Collected and configured requirements from client leadership for the global deployment of Workday’s compensation (full scope) through a leadership transition

• Reported to functional lead to ensure compensation configuration was discussed and aligned with all functional and technical work streams

• Led the development of the compensation training plan, areas of focus, and materials for NYU business process design

• Facilitated departmental alignment to sync compensation data converted from legacy system to Workday configuration

• Led a synchronized and simplified approach to union management and processes, including additional reporting and functionality within Workday

• Developed, enhanced, and maintained the operation, administration, and governance of core and advanced compensation programs in Workday

• Data configuration in Workday via outbound integrations using EIB

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