Workday Techno-Functional Consultant - Payroll Integrations
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G. AKASH
SENIOR WORKDAY TECHNO-FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT
***********.**@*****.***
Pennsylvania, USA
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Senior Workday Techno-Functional Consultant with 5+ years of progressive experience delivering enterprise-grade Workday HCM, payroll integration, and advanced reporting solutions for Fortune 500 organizations. Proven expertise across the full Workday ecosystem — Core HCM, PECI/PICOF payroll integrations, EIB, Core Connectors, Workday Studio, RaaS, Advanced Reporting, and Security (ISU/ISSG). Consistent track record of resolving high-severity production integration failures under SLA pressure, managing Workday bi-annual release cycles, and optimizing Business Process Frameworks to align with complex organizational structures. Experienced in full SDLC — from requirements gathering and solution design through testing, deployment, and post-production hyper-care support. Trusted advisor to HR, Payroll, and IT stakeholders at global enterprises including Mastercard. CORE COMPETENCIES
WORKDAY HCM
– Core HCM
Configuration
– Staffing Models & Job
Profiles
– Business Process
Framework (BPF)
– Supervisory Org &
Position Mgmt
– Absence & Leave
Management
– Compensation Setup
INTEGRATIONS
– PECI & PICOF Payroll
Integrations
– Enterprise Interface
Builder (EIB)
– Core Connectors (CCW)
– Workday Studio
– RaaS (Report-as-a-
Service)
– REST & SOAP Web
Services
REPORTING &
ANALYTICS
– Advanced & Matrix
Reports
– Composite Reports
– Calculated Fields
– Payroll Reconciliation
Dashboards
– Workforce & Headcount
Analytics
– Integration Status
Monitoring
TECHNICAL & TOOLS
– XML / XSLT / XPath /
JSON
– Workday Security (ISU,
ISSG)
– Object Transporter
– ServiceNow (ITSM)
– Postman / API Testing
– JIRA / Agile / Scrum
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Workday Techno-Functional Consultant May 2024 – Present Mastercard · Pennsylvania, USA
End-to-End Payroll Integration Management: Owned full lifecycle of PECI, PICOF, EIB, and Core Connector
(CCW) outbound payroll integrations — including design, configuration, testing, and production support — across monthly, mid-year, and year-end payroll cycles for a global employee population.
Critical Production Issue Resolution: Diagnosed and resolved 10–15+ Severity-1 integration failures per payroll cycle by performing deep-dive analysis of Workday event logs, debugging complex XSLT transformations, and correcting payload data mapping errors — achieving 100% on-time SLA compliance across all supported cycles.
Data Integrity & Audit Readiness: Executed high-volume inbound EIB data loads for workforce, compensation, and position data; designed and ran post-load validation scripts that reduced quarterly HR audit exceptions by eliminating recurring data discrepancy patterns.
Advanced Reporting & Executive Dashboards: Built 15+ Advanced Reports, Calculated Fields, and payroll reconciliation dashboards consumed by Finance, HR Operations, and executive leadership during month-end and year-end close cycles; enabled real-time visibility into integration health and payroll data accuracy.
Business Process Framework (BPF) Optimization: Redesigned conditional routing logic, multi-tier approval chains, and validation rules within BPF for Hire, Job Change, Compensation, and Termination processes — reducing process cycle time and eliminating routing errors reported by HR business partners.
Workday Security Governance: Configured and maintained ISU and ISSG security groups, domain security policies, and business process security permissions — ensuring least-privilege access and SOX-compliant integration authentication across all production integrations.
Tenant Migration & Release Readiness: Led bi-annual Workday release regression testing across Sandbox, Preview, and Production tenants using Object Transporter for object-level migrations; authored test plans and defect logs, achieving zero production regressions post-release.
Stakeholder Communication & ITSM: Served as primary technical point of contact for payroll and HR stakeholders; managed ServiceNow incident queue, triaged P1/P2 tickets, and delivered executive-facing status updates — maintaining stakeholder confidence during critical payroll windows. Workday Techno-Functional Consultant June 2020 – July 2022 CA Technologies (Broadcom) · Remote, India
Payroll & HR Integration Architecture: Designed and implemented EIB inbound/outbound and Core Connector integrations connecting Workday to ADP, third-party payroll processors, and recruiting platforms — replacing manual file transfers and eliminating weekly data reconciliation overhead.
RaaS Automation: Developed RaaS-based integration layer to automate scheduled outbound data delivery to downstream HR and benefits systems, reducing manual intervention and improving data freshness for 3rd-party vendors.
XSLT Transformation Development: Authored and debugged complex multi-level XSLT stylesheets for XML-to- XML data conversion across 10+ integration streams, ensuring accurate field mapping between Workday HCM and external payroll/benefits systems.
Core HCM Transaction Support: Supported all major HCM business events — Hire, Job Change, Transfer, Termination, Absence — resolving client-reported configuration defects and data discrepancies within contractual turnaround SLAs.
Root Cause Analysis & Stability Improvement: Performed structured root cause analysis on recurring integration failures; authored resolution runbooks adopted by the support team, reducing repeat incident volume and improving overall integration uptime.
UAT Leadership & Go-Live Support: Led client UAT sessions for 3 Workday go-live deployments — coordinating defect tracking, obtaining formal sign-off, and providing post-go-live hyper-care support to ensure smooth transitions.
HR & Payroll Analytics: Developed Advanced, Matrix, and Composite Reports for HR leadership and payroll operations; created Calculated Fields for dynamic workforce segmentation supporting compliance and regulatory reporting.
Workday Consultant May 2019 – June 2020
Vision Wings · Remote
Core HCM Implementation: Configured Workday HCM from the ground up for mid-market clients — including Organizations, Supervisory Hierarchies, Job Profiles, Job Classifications, Position Management, and Compensation Grades.
Business Process Design: Designed end-to-end Business Processes for Hire, Promotion, Transfer, Termination, and Compensation events including multi-step routing, conditional approval logic, and automated notifications aligned to client HR policy.
Absence Management Configuration: Set up time-off plans, accrual policies, carryover rules, and eligibility criteria for clients operating across multiple US states, ensuring compliance with state-specific leave laws.
Data Migration via EIB: Executed inbound EIB data loads for worker, position, and compensation data migration during go-live conversion; performed post-load reconciliation achieving 99%+ data accuracy at cutover.
SIT / UAT / Regression Testing: Participated in full test cycles — System Integration Testing, UAT, and regression
— tracking defects in JIRA, coordinating fixes with functional teams, and validating resolutions before production promotion.
End-User Training & Documentation: Delivered role-based training sessions to HR teams and authored SOPs, quick reference guides, and configuration workbooks used as the baseline for post-go-live support. TECHNICAL SKILLS SUMMARY
Workday Platform: Core HCM · PECI · PICOF · EIB · Core Connectors · Workday Studio · RaaS · BPF · Advanced & Matrix Reporting · Calculated Fields · Absence Management · Object Transporter · Tenant Administration Security: ISU (Integration System User) · ISSG (Integration System Security Group) · Domain Security Policies · Business Process Security
Programming & Data: XML · XSLT · XPath · JSON · REST APIs · SOAP Web Services · SQL (querying & data validation)
Tools & Platforms: ServiceNow · JIRA · Postman · Microsoft Office Suite · Workday Sandbox / Preview / Production Environments
Methodologies: Agile / Scrum · SDLC · SIT / UAT / Regression Testing · Root Cause Analysis · SLA Management · Change & Release Management
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) — Computer Science / Information Technology 2015 – 2019 Masters of Science (MS) - Computer Science 2022-2024 KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
100% SLA Compliance: Maintained zero SLA breaches across all supported payroll cycles at Mastercard despite averaging 10–15 critical integration failures per cycle requiring real-time diagnosis and resolution.
Zero Production Regressions: Successfully managed 4 Workday bi-annual release cycles with no post-release production incidents across all supported tenants.
Multi-Industry Delivery Experience: Delivered Workday solutions across Financial Services (Mastercard), Technology (CA Technologies/Broadcom), and mid-market clients — demonstrating adaptability across regulated and complex enterprise environments.
Full Project Lifecycle Coverage: Hands-on across the entire Workday project lifecycle — pre-sales solutioning, requirements, design, build, test, go-live, and production AMS support.
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