Workday Lead Compensation Consultant
Kainos
About the role
Lead Workday HCM and Core Compensation implementations for global customers, shaping solutions, running large workshops, managing relationships, and handling escalations. You’ll mentor consultants in your capability, support sales estimates, manage risk, and present to senior clients and at conferences. Full professional English and Finnish are required, with possible travel to customer sites in the region and minimal travel beyond it.
As a Workday Lead Compensation Consultant in Kainos, you’ll be a lead consultant in implementing and configuring Workday solutions for our global customer base and an expert in your chosen Workday specialist capability or capabilities.
As an expert in a team of consultants, you will manage relationships with our customers, and shape and deliver solutions that are aligned to customer needs, fit for purpose and commercially viable. You’ll provide excellent consulting and guidance to customers, truly understanding their business.
You’ll be an expert in your capability, using your technical and professional expertise to mentor and guide your team members in that capability, providing thought leadership and innovation building and improving specialist knowledge in your capability or capabilities at Kainos as well as the broader Workday community.
What we are looking for:
- Full Professional Proficiency in English, and Finnish
- Workday HCM and Core Compensation experience
- Excellent customer focus, able to assess customer needs, build relationships and manage customer expectations. You will be able to intervene effectively and resolve customer escalations appropriately
- Excellent communicator, able to communicate with customers and colleagues with impact and credibility. Sound ability to formally present to senior Client audiences and at conferences e.g. Workday Altitude
- Strong commercial awareness and complete understanding of project and business dynamics
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and make sensible decisions under pressure taking a balanced view of customer demands and Kainos commercials
- Ability to widen and maintain a network of external contacts
- Excellent consulting skills e.g. leading largescale workshops with multiple stakeholders, liaising confidently and effectively with senior executives
- Regular participant in sales activities and responsible providing input to work estimates
- Understanding of risk management and able to manage risk within the capability
- Able, if required, to travel to customer sites in the same region (minimal out of region travel may also be required)
Nice to have:
- Workday Compensation Certification
- 1-2 years’ experience with Workday Advanced Compensation
- Develop and deliver products/offerings and services that differentiate Kainos in the marketplace
- Identify talent for rapid development within the capability
- Experience of managing, mentoring and developing teams