Workday Implementation specialist

emagine is looking for an Workday Implementation specialist to one of our nordic banking clients.

Start date: 2026-12-03

End date: 2027-11-30 Location: Stockholm 3 days onsite, 2 days remote)

Description

The consultant should combine a strong understanding of end-to-end HR and C&B processes and how they translate into Workday with hands-on experience in implementation activities. Particular focus will be on understanding process and system flows, coordinating data activities, ensuring data quality, and supporting and executing testing.

Experience and Competencies

• Hands-on experience from Workday implementations and/or Workday configuration, preferably within Compensation & Benefits and related HR processes
• Strong understanding of end-to-end business processes and how processes, data, configuration, integrations and systems interact
• Experience of planning, coordinating and executing testing, particularly where testing involves data, configuration and end-to-end business processes
• Ability to understand and map process and system flows, including inputs, outputs, hand-offs, dependencies and interactions between different areas
• Good understanding of both business processes and system solutions, with the ability to translate business needs into functional and system requirements
• Ability to identify how changes or decisions in one part of a process may impact downstream or upstream processes, data, integrations or other Workday areas
• Strong experience of data-related activities in Workday implementations, including data mapping, transformation, validation, migration and reconciliation
• Experience of coordinating data activities across business, project and technical teams, ensuring that data requirements, dependencies and issues are identified and followed through
• Experience of planning, coordinating and executing testing across processes, data, configuration and integrations
• Comfortable working hands-on with process analysis, investigations, requirements, documentation, testing, data validation and implementation activities
• Able to quickly understand complex requirements and process flows, identify gaps or issues and drive them towards resolution
• Proactive, structured and delivery-focused, with the ability to independently coordinate activities and follow up on actions
• Able to collaborate effectively across C&B, HR, IT, project teams, vendors and other relevant functions

The consultant is expected to provide hands-on support across the implementation, including:

• Understanding and documenting end-to-end C&B processes and how they are supported by Workday and connected systems
• Mapping process and system flows, including dependencies, hand-offs, data flows, integrations and interactions with other HR processes
• Supporting the design and implementation of Workday processes and solutions and ensuring that they work effectively from an end-to-end perspective
• Translating business requirements and existing processes into functional and system requirements

Identifying gaps, dependencies and potential impacts across processes, systems and Workday modules

• Coordinating C&B data activities and ensuring alignment between source data, business requirements and Workday
• Mapping data between current systems and Workday, including defining transformation and migration requirements
• Validating data quality and completeness, identifying discrepancies and coordinating required cleansing and corrections
• Supporting data loads and migrations, including validation and reconciliation of results
• Planning and coordinating testing activities for C&B, including test scenarios, test data, expected outcomes and end-to-end process testing
• Executing and supporting functional, data and end-to-end testing, documenting defects and following issues through to resolution
• Investigating functional, process and data-related issues and supporting root cause analysis and resolution
• Preparing and maintaining relevant process documentation, requirements, data mappings, test documentation and decision materials
• Supporting implementation, cutover and post-go-live stabilization activities

Personal Profile

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to understand both the detail and the broader end-to-end picture
• Curious and able to quickly understand how processes, systems and data interact
• Structured and comfortable coordinating multiple activities, dependencies and stakeholders
• Hands-on and willing to take ownership of detailed implementation activities
• High attention to detail, particularly when working with processes, data and testing
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and changing project priorities
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills
• Self-driven, collaborative and delivery-focused