HRIT Integrations Lead - Workday Payroll

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, KION SCS is a member of KION Group, a global leader in industrial trucks, related services and supply chain solutions. Across more than 100 countries worldwide, the KION Group designs, builds and supports logistics solutions that optimize material and information flow within factories, warehouses and distribution centers. The company is the largest manufacturer of industrial trucks in Europe, the second-largest producer of forklifts globally and a leading provider of warehouse automation.

Join our team as a Workday Payroll & Benefits Integration Lead, where you'll play a key role in implementing and supporting Workday Payroll solutions across global operations. You'll collaborate with internal customers and implementation partners to design, develop, and optimize payroll and benefits integrations, ensuring seamless connectivity with upstream and downstream systems. From managing system performance and testing strategies to driving process efficiencies and minimizing operational risks, your expertise will help craft scalable, high-impact solutions.

We offer:

• Career Development
• Competitive Compensation and Benefits
• Pay Transparency
• Global Opportunities
  
  
  

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The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $92,625 - $135,850 at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge, and skills.

Tasks and Qualifications:

What You Will do in This Role:

• Responsible for payroll and benefits integrations through implementing Workday payroll solution with an agreed Functional design
• Responsible for supporting the Workday Payroll implementation during Hypercare and post go-live of the Project
• Responsible for working with the implementation partner and internal business partners on detailed functional design for payroll integrations
• Work on System Performance management, planning and monitoring of maintenance strategies for the cloud solution
• Improving process efficiencies, enhancing cost savings, minimizing operational risk exposure, and optimizing integrations for functional efficiencies
• Implement testing plans (A/B) for payroll integrations
• Participate in meetings and build trust with internal business customers, understand business objectives and seeks alignment
• Define and implement integrations to upstream and downstream systems
• Manage and understand functional architecture analysis, research, design and development of new functionality and integration with key applications and services
• Monitor Risks / Issues and prepare appropriate mitigation plans
• Ensure standard methodologies are followed and required processes and specifications are documented
• Support to sign-off/change management process on technical changes proposed to responsible systems
• Design, develop, and support of technical integrations to both Workday Payroll and Benefits and Workday HCM according to KGIT standards
• Responsible for the high-level design and end-to-end solutions based upon product strategy and functionality and relevant risk mitigating strategies
• Collaborate with Global payroll team and Workday product management in conversations to understand the strategic direction of Workday's Global Payroll solutions
• Identify design, deployment obstacles and opportunities to optimize current functionality and integrate with third party solutions such as UKG Workforce management
  
  
  

What We Are Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree or higher
• 8 years of hands-on experience leading large-scale Workday Payroll, Benefits, and Absence Management implementations Technical integration expertise, including:
• Workday Cloud Connectors
• Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB)
• APIs / Web Services
• Payroll integrations (Studio strongly preferred)
• Experience integrating Workday with SAP, UltiPro, UKG, or other enterprise payroll/time systems (preferred)
• Proven track record of driving operational improvements and inspiring change
• Strong team teamwork and credibility in high-performance environments
• Up-to-date knowledge of industry trends and strategic value delivery
• Excellent communication—able to simplify sophisticated topics for executive audiences
• Skilled in client engagement, needs assessment, and documentation
• Experienced in capturing and prioritizing business requirements
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
• Willing to travel up to 10% (US & EMEA)