Workday Functional Consultant - HCM & Payroll

Rohith Reddy Dhopathi

Workday Functional Consultant

Location: Texas Mail: ***********@*****.*** Ph.: +1-469-***-**** LinkedIn PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Results-driven Workday Functional Consultant with 5 years of real-time implementation and production support experience across US and global enterprises. Specialized in Workday HCM, Payroll, Financials GL, Business Process Framework, Advanced Reporting, Discovery Boards, EIBs, and Integrations. Demonstrated success in payroll costing, GL reconciliation, data migration, and payroll close optimization, partnering with HR, Finance, and IT to deliver compliant, scalable, and audit-ready Workday solutions that enhance operational efficiency and decision-making.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Workday Core Modules: Workday HCM Core, Business Process Framework (BPF), Organizations, Staffing Models, Job Profiles

Workday Functional Modules: Absence Management, Time Tracking, Compensation, Benefits, Payroll (Functional), Talent & Performance

Business Process Configuration: BPF configuration, condition rules, validations, notifications, approvals, to-dos

Security & Access: Role-based security, domain security policies, business process security, user-based security

Data Management & Integrations: EIBs (inbound/outbound), Core Connectors, Workday Studio (functional exposure), data loads

Reporting & Analytics: Advanced, matrix, and composite reports; calculated fields; dashboards

Testing & Deployment: Functional testing, unit testing, UAT support, regression testing, release management

Requirements & Documentation: Business requirements gathering, functional design documents (FDDs), configuration workbooks

Implementation & Support: Workday implementations, tenant management, post-production support, issue resolution

Compliance & Best Practices: Workday release updates, audit support, data privacy, configuration best practices Testing PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Workday Functional Consultant Jun 2024 – Present

Oracle Financial Services, USA

Configured Workday Business Processes to support Hire, Job Change, Compensation Change, Termination, and Time Off events, enabling compliant approvals and improving end-to-end HR transaction efficiency across core HCM operations.

Designed payroll costing and GL posting rules using Workday Financials GL in collaboration with Payroll, Finance, and Treasury, improving journal accuracy to 99.7% and reducing manual journal effort by 35%.

Developed payroll and finance reporting solutions using Workday Advanced Reports, delivering visibility into payroll costing, gross- to-net results, funding status, and payment exceptions, reducing ad-hoc reporting requests by 50%.

Built executive dashboards using Workday Discovery Boards to analyse labour cost, overtime, and accrual trends, enabling Finance leadership to strengthen forecasting accuracy and data-driven decision-making.

Supported payroll close cycles using Workday Payroll by performing payroll-to-GL reconciliations, suspense clearing, and accrual processing, contributing to a two-day reduction in overall close timelines.

Optimized payroll run controls and validation processes using Workday Payroll, ensuring timely salary disbursements and reducing off-cycle payroll adjustments through stronger governance and review checkpoints.

Executed data conversion and migration activities using Workday EIBs by validating employee, job, and compensation data, ensuring high data integrity during implementation and release cycles.

Partnered with HR and IT stakeholders through Fit-Gap Analysis to translate business requirements into Workday configuration and reporting solutions, strengthening compliance monitoring and proactive risk management across payroll and finance domains. Accenture – India Jan 2020 – Nov 2022

Workday Functional Consultant

Led requirements analysis and system configuration within Workday HCM, supporting an end-to-end HR platform transition and ensuring alignment with global HR and payroll business processes.

Executed data migration and validation from PeopleSoft HRMS to Workday HCM, reconciling 15,000+ employee records and achieving 99.9% post-migration data accuracy.

Designed and configured payroll integrations using Workday Payroll, validating outbound files to ensure compliant and error-free payroll data transmission to downstream systems.

Developed integration logic and transformations using Workday Studio, enabling payroll output to be converted into multiple structured formats to support enterprise applications.

Built custom operational and analytical reports using Workday Report Writer, delivering HR demographics and workforce datasets to enterprise reporting and data hub platforms.

Created inbound and outbound data feeds via EIBs, supporting secure and automated data exchange with identity management and financial systems.

Performed business process re-engineering and gap analysis, leading configuration, testing, deployment, and post-production support across HCM, Payroll, and Integration workstreams.

Authored functional and technical design documentation, ensuring clear solution architecture, traceability of requirements, and smooth collaboration between functional and technical teams.

Developed executive-level dashboards using Power BI, improving visibility into workforce trends and payroll variances and enabling data-driven decision-making across departments.

EDUCATION:

Master of Science, Information Technology Management (ITM) – Webster University, Texas, USA Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering - Anurag group of institutions, Hyderabad, India

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