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At Alight, we believe a company's success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to "Be Alight."

Our Values:

• Champion People
  • Be empathetic and help create a place where everyone belongs.
• Grow with purpose - Be inspired by our higher calling of improving lives.
• Be Alight - Act with integrity, be real and empower others.

It's why we're so driven to connect passion with purpose. Our team's expertise in human insights and cloud technology gives companies and employees around the world the ability to power confident decisions, for life.

With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work.

Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight. Learn more at

careers.alight.com.

Current Workday certification or Workday Pro Certification for Workday Absence Management and/or Time Tracking required

As a

Workday Absence and Time Tracking Consultant

a typical day to include the following:

• Analyzes, defines and documents complex business requirements and processes relating to functional area of expertise.
• Leads design and review existing or new functionality/configuration with technical and functional resources at all levels, including members of management.
• Understands the scope and details of project plan and is able to identify and communicate the need for resources for tasks or assigned areas of responsibility.
• Manages multiple, parallel projects/tasks using exceptional organizational and time management techniques to successfully complete tasks in a timely manner.
• Manages Workday projects/tasks through the various lifecycle stages, from business need through design and delivery.
• Provide guidance and thought leadership on how skillset and capability can help resolve client needs and actively participates in all phases of the Workday life cycle.
• Monitors progress of tasks against plan, and reports status to leadership on project issues.
• Establishes and maintains client relationships. Communicates client feedback to leadership as appropriate.
• Suggests improvements and proactively addresses issues. Answers all inquiries by established deadlines.
• Demonstrates knowledge relating to Workday functional area and participates in training and development initiatives to keep abreast of current trends and practices.
• Contributes to knowledge management capital through activities such as sharing documented lessons learned, QandA, documented deliverables, and regularly posting best practices and knowledge sharing information to the internal info sharing site.
• Understands quality standards for own work and monitors and manages work of team members, providing feedback as appropriate.
• Completes assigned tasks in prescribed timelines consistent with deliverables and asks for support and direction as appropriate.
• Understands the scope and details of project plan and is able to identify and communicate the need for resources for tasks or assigned areas of responsibility.
• May provide guidance, instruction, direction, and leadership to other team members.

Your Skills and Qualifications should reflect our values and will include:

• 3 to 5 plus years previous experience implementing HR systems. Such experience may include Workday, PeopleSoft, SAP, ADP, Oracle E-Business, Ultipro or other SaaS software solutions. Workday deployment experience preferred.

• Previous consulting experience either as an internal consultant or with a consulting/software organization is preferred.

• Possesses strong facilitation/presentation skills.

• Experience in transform ng business requirements into complex system configurations.

• Ability to be effectively and actively engaged on multiple, parallel projects. Time management and organizational skills are required for success.

• Demonstrates ability to prioritize conflicting demands with little supervision.

• Demonstrates strong work ethics, setting an example for others.

• Excellent oral and written communications skills.

• Proficient to advanced MS Excel Skills to be used to transform data (advanced formulas).

• Ability to travel up to 50%.

• This opportunity does not offer sponsorship

• Current Workday certification or Workday Pro Certification for Workday Absence Management and/or Time Tracking

• Workday Certification is a requirement of the role. Candidates who are not certified will be considered for the role, but they will need to successfully pass Workday certification as well as on-going successful re-certification

Education:

Bachelor's degree in technical, business, or financial discipline or relevant field of study required.

Flexible Working

So that you can be your best at work and home, we consider flexible working arrangements wherever possible. Alight has been a leader in the flexible workspace and "Top 100 Company for Remote Jobs" 5 years in a row.

Benefits

We offer programs and plans for a healthy mind, body, wallet and life because it's important our benefits care for the whole person. Options include a variety of health coverage options, wellbeing and support programs, retirement, vacation and sick leave, maternity, paternity and adoption leave, continuing education and training as well as a number of voluntary benefit options.

By applying for a position with Alight, you understand that, should you be made an offer, it will be contingent on your undergoing and successfully completing a background check consistent with Alight's employment policies. Background checks may include some or all the following based on the nature of the position: SSN/SIN validation, education verification, employment verification, and criminal check, search against global sanctions and government watch lists, credit check, and/or drug test.

You will be notified during the hiring process which checks are required by the position.

Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Alight is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We celebrate differences and believe in fostering an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported. We know that diverse teams are stronger, more innovative, and more successful.

At Alight, we welcome and embrace