Workday Lead Workday Implementation Consultant

Jay Reddy

Lead Workday Consultant

Email- ************@*****.***

Phone - 215-***-****

Summary

Expertise in the designing and configuration as Workday Implementation Consultant.

Experience in Conversion & Integration as Business analyst, ETL BI analyst, Payroll data analyst, QA analyst with diverse projects, having domain knowledge of Retail, Pharmaceutical and Human Resources (Workday).

Involved in Full cycle implementation of Workday Modules HCM, Payrolls, and Benefits.

Extensive knowledge of various HR transactions involved in Workday HCM/HR Integrations.

Hands-On Experience in Configuring with Custom reports, calculated fields, Workday Studio, EIBs, Core Connector, Report Design, and Business form Layout, Solution Manager.

Build reports using Workday's report writing tools. Ability to help clients resolve reporting issues requiring in depth expertise in the Workday solution.

Good Command over Employee Life cycle (Core HR), Employee self-service, Manager Self-service, Payroll Interfaces, Benefits and compensation modules.

Developed custom reports in Finance Project modules such as expenses, procurement, hours, and cost tracking.

Experience with multiple Workday modules, including Core HCM, Payroll, Finance, Procurement, Recruiting, Compensation, Benefits, Time Tracking, and Absence Management.

Hands-on experience with large-scale, global, full-life cycle Workday implementations (domestic & international).

Strong understanding of Web Services, SaaS, RaaS, Workday Business Process Framework.

Expertise in document transformation with SQL, XML, XSLT, HTML, BIRT, and Web Services technologies.

In-depth knowledge of Workday Security setup, including Constrained, Unconstrained, Segmented, Employee-as-Self, and Intersection Security Groups.

Led workshops, steering committees, and executive briefings, facilitating alignment between IT, HR, Finance, and other stakeholders.

Drove continuous improvement initiatives, standardizing Workday processes across global business units to improve efficiency.

Proficient in HR processes such as Recruiting, Hiring, Payroll, Benefits, Performance Management, Onboarding, and Self-Service functionalities.

Provided technical leadership for various Workday implementation and production support projects.

Experience in system analysis, application development, and service efficiency improvements using Cloud solutions & ERP technologies.

Experience in requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, testing, and migration during Workday implementation.

Professional Experience

Lead Workday Consultant

Natera Jan 2026 to Present

Responsibilities:

Ran scrum meetings and work on requirement gathering from the client side

Done Configuration of Workday's business process framework configured conditional rules to guide workflow or validate data as required to accommodate desired outcomes.

Involved in creating the Technical Design Documents for the Integration's based on the Functional Design Documents.

Evaluated emerging Workday features and industry best practices, recommending upgrades and enhancements for long-term business impact.

Mentored and coached project managers, functional leads, and junior consultants, building high-performing teams and knowledge-sharing culture.

Coordinated vendor and partner relationships, ensuring adherence to SLAs, quality standards, and contractual obligations.

Managed budget planning, resource allocation, and project financials for large-scale Workday programs.

Ensured compliance with regulatory requirements, data security policies, and internal audit standards within Workday projects.

Managed cross-functional teams of consultants, analysts, and developers, driving collaboration between business and technical stakeholders.

Coordinated Workday integration projects with external systems, defining requirements, mapping processes, and overseeing testing.

Developed project plans, tracked milestones, and provided regular status reports to senior leadership, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.

Monitored post-go-live support, tracked issues, and implemented continuous process improvements to enhance Workday functionality.

Developed many custom reports Advanced reports for the different modules

I verified that security group assignments are accurate and true for each employee at the individual level

Manually completed the HCM workbook and worked with payroll and benefits resources to complete the Payroll, Benefits and Absence workbooks.

Successfully participated in full-cycle Workday implementation projects, including Core HCM, Benefits, Payroll, Time Tracking, Absence Management, Performance Management, Advanced Compensation, Recruiting, and Finance modules, ensuring seamless configuration, prototype testing, and delivery.

Worked on Expresso to provide pre-built templates and tools to accelerate Workday Extend application development.

Developed end to end work flow testing of all in-scope business processes

Configured Forecasting and planning of revenue, expenses and headcounts using Adaptive planning.

Worked on EIB’s - outbound and inbound with custom transformation using XML, XSLT, and XPath.

Having a good knowledge on strategic nature of talent and how it provides data to other Workday applications through information collected via talent and performance processes.

Developed integrations using workday studio tool, Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), document transformation, Core connector and deploying it into workday tenant.

Worked on the recruiting compliance and finalized the work order according to it

Sr. Workday Consultant

Kentucky Medical Healthcare Oct 2023 to Dec 2025

Responsibilities:

Involved in full cycle implementation projects with responsibilities including Core HCM, Workday Benefits, Configuration & Prototype Testing, Payroll, Time Tracking, Enhancements and Absence, Performance Management,Advanced Compensation and Recruiting

Acted as Workday SME for Adaptive Planning, supporting workforce financial forecasting and executive reporting.

Configured and optimized open enrollment processes, including eligibility and auto-enrollment rules.

Created dynamic reports to support HR, Payroll, and Finance operations, reducing reliance on manual reconciliation.

Facilitated workshops and training sessions for HR, Payroll, and Finance teams to optimize Workday adoption and process efficiency.

Oversaw data migration strategies from legacy systems to Workday, ensuring data integrity, validation, and reconciliation.

Partnered with business leaders to gather requirements, perform gap analysis, and configure Workday solutions to meet organizational needs.

Implemented change management initiatives, including communication plans and end-user support, to ensure smooth transitions across business units.

Conducted risk assessment and mitigation planning for Workday projects, resolving escalations and preventing project delays.

Managed GL mapping and automated benefit cost configurations within the Payroll module.

Coordinated integration testing with internal teams and external vendors to validate data flows and system performance.

Worked as a Workday SME regarding releases and work with the appropriate teams to assess the impact of upgrades and enhancements for organization. Also responsible for planning and executing system upgrades, ensuring that any customizations or integrations are properly tested and migrated.

Automated intercompany transactions and reconciliations in Workday Financials to save time.

Created budget-to-actual and rolling forecast reports in Adaptive Planning for leadership review.

Integrated Workday Financials with other systems for smooth data flow and accurate reporting.

Ensured Prism data pipelines were clean and reliable for reporting and analysis.

Supported upgrades and enhancements in Workday Financials and Adaptive Planning to improve processes.

Worked on Hire and onboarding Business process enhancement and also worked on Time of Plan

Implemented inbound and outbound integrations using Workday EIB with XSLT specifications to transform the document format into the desired file format such as CSV or Excel, Web Services SOAP, REST, XML and XSLT

Worked on Workday compensation shift differential automation.

Leading the End-End Testing, third party vendor testing, Standalones Integration

As Workday SME collaborated with various stakeholders, including HR, IT, and finance teams, to understand their requirements, translate them into system configurations, and ensure alignment with organizational goals.

Managed Workday Dashboards and branding and alert notification into the system

Configuration of Workday's business process framework configured conditional rules to guide workflow or validate data as required to accommodate desired outcomes.

Worked on Production support of Workday HCM, which includes Core HR, Time Tracking, Absence Management, and Payroll Modules related to User access to Workday system

Sr. Workday Consultant

Life Span, RI Aug 2021 to Sept 2023

Responsibilities:

Configuration of Workday's business process framework configured conditional rules to guide workflow or validate data as required to accommodate desired outcomes.

Involved in creating the Technical Design Documents for the Integration's based on the Functional Design Documents.

Assisted in System Integration, Regression, Performance and End-to-end testing of the Workday Applications.

Created strategic HRIS roadmaps and helped define and deliver HR Portfolios and project plans

Workday implementation experience from requirement gathering to post deployment product support for payroll GL, procurement, expenses and Business assets.

Managing Data conversions, HR and Compensation related BIRT Reports, Security Management, Business Process configuration and configuring the application according to customer requirements and developing system Integration.

Resolved security-related incidents and access requests, collaborating with HR, IT, and Compliance teams.

Assisted in quarterly security reviews and role-based access control (RBAC) updates.

Supported Workday reporting and analytics, leveraging calculated fields and advanced reporting tools.

Worked cross-functionally with HR, Payroll, and IT teams to optimize security configurations and workflows.

Spearheaded large-scale Workday HCM, Payroll, and Benefits implementations, overseeing multiple concurrent projects across business units.

Developed and executed data migration and validation strategies, ensuring accuracy and consistency from legacy systems to Workday.

Designed and implemented change management and training programs, driving adoption and maximizing ROI from Workday solutions.

Conducted risk assessment and mitigation planning for enterprise-level projects, resolving escalations and ensuring business continuity.

Oversaw post-go-live support, continuously monitoring system performance and implementing enhancements to optimize functionality.

Developed Workday integrations, including EIB, Core Connectors, Cloud Connectors, and Workday Studio.

Built simple and advanced Studio integrations, leveraging XSLT transformations.

Created custom reports using Workday Report Writer, Workday Studio BIRT, and modified Workday Standard Reports as per business needs.

Staying up-to-date with payroll-related regulations and ensuring compliance with tax laws, labor regulations, and other statutory requirements. Generating payroll reports for internal and external stakeholders, including tax authorities, auditors, and management

EIB’s - outbound and inbound with custom transformation using XML, XSLT, and XPath.

Deconstructed Facets member business requirements into high level and low-level Use Cases, Activity Diagrams / Sate chart Diagrams using MS Visio

Assumed an integral role in redesigning the organizational structure of the company from an HRIS standpoint into a more logical and efficient manner, heavily optimizing the internal processes for Finance, Payroll, Benefits, and HR.

Worked on implementing all building blocks of the Workforce Time and Attendance module as well configure the web server

Configured Payroll Integration

As a Workday SME worked on continuous evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiency of your organization's Workday configuration.

Manage the integration of the LMS with Workday HRIS and WebEx.

Worked extensively on Workday data conversion and integrations as Data analyst and Business Analyst

Documented workflow, configurations, business process for e-Performance module using Excel, MS project and Visio

Resolved the tickets based on Attendance and Time using Jira

Used Adaptive Planning to enable an active planning process that incorporates everyone within the organization

Worked on Design and development of integrations with Time and attendance

Worked on the new Workday Feature Cost center security and introduced a way to apply the Cost center security to many Distributed reports and integrations within the Yale Financial Management.

Sr. Workday Consultant

BBH, NJ Dec 2019 to Jul 2021

Responsibilities:

Gathering requirements, designing, developing & deploying them to production.

Working on Various types of integrations like EIB, Core Connectors & Studios.

Worked on Simple & Advance Studio integrations & applied XSLT transformations

Deconstructed Facets member business requirements into high level and low level Use Cases, Activity Diagrams / Sate chart Diagrams using MS Visio.

Responsible for maintaining and supporting HRIS and the integration of HRIS into HR related processes.

Prepare and record journal entries related to Accounts payable, Accounts receivable, Payroll, Cash, Assets, and Accruals.

Worked for testing on an 8 -member workday team in developing and implementing quality-assurance and quality-control methodologies for Confidential to ensure compliance with QA standards and customer specifications.

Handled Business process - onboarding, hiring, terminations & rehire

Preparing QA effort estimates from Define Phase till Implement Phase

Worked on various unit testing. Prepared Test Scenarios & Test Cases for workday HCM Modules- Core HR, Benefits, Time & Labor, and Performance Management & Advance Compensation.

Designed and built both inbound and outbound EIB integrations in various segments of workday systems.

Leading the offshore report developers and providing guidance pertaining to what will be worked on, what will be migrated, as well as enforcing company policy and management direction

Developed integrations using web service SOAP, WSDL, XML, XSLT on the Workday Cloud platform such as Payroll integration, ADP inbound/outbound.

Differentiation of operating models using dynamic chart libraries connecting with Workday instance on Adaptive planning.

Responsible for creating/modifying SQL queries to ensure efficiency/accuracy of Database's to support corporate wide ETL projects.

Experience on Workday Adaptive planning in continuous and comprehensive financial planning, reporting, and analysis

Create/Modify Crystal Reports to support Web Based Reporting applications.

Creating/Modifying/Executing T- SQL Stored Procedure via SSMS for needs within the organization.

Workday Consultant

Motorola, Chicago Jun 2017 to Nov 2019

Responsibilities:

Worked on Workday HCM/Financial Management with Substantial functional and Technical expertise in Financials solutions and HR Business Processes.

Worked in all phases of the Workday implementation and support after go live namely - Requirement gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, deploying and scheduling.

Lead for testing of an 8 -member workday team in developing and implementing quality-assurance and quality-control methodologies for Confidential to ensure compliance with QA standards and customer specifications.

Supported various HR modules such as Core HR, Benefits, Payroll, Compensation, Absence Management, Time Tracking, Talent Management, Recruiting, and Finance.

Hands on experience in configuring and updating workday business processes for different functional areas.

Workday Analyst

Mizuho Bank, NYC Jun 2015 to May 2017

Responsibilities:

●Administered Workday Core HCM, Benefits, Payroll, Compensation, Absence Management, Time Tracking, Talent Management, Recruiting, and Financial Management, replacing legacy PeopleSoft and other HR/Finance systems.

●Led end-to-end Workday integrations using Studio, EIB (Inbound/Outbound), Core Connector, REST APIs, SOAP, XML, XSLT, and XPath for HR, Payroll, Benefits, Recruiting, and Finance modules.

●Designed integration architecture and REST listener interfaces to automatically onboard new hires from recruiting systems into Workday, ensuring seamless employee lifecycle data flow.

●Created custom dashboards and analytics to provide actionable insights for HR, Payroll, and Finance stakeholders.

●Supported post-go-live Workday support, troubleshooting HR, Payroll, and Finance issues, and performing system optimization tasks.

Education

Bachelors in Accounting and Finance from OU, 2008

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