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Job Title: Workday Payroll & Financials Lead
Location: East Coast (Remote)
Job Type: Contract-to-Hire
Industry: Healthcare
Overview
We are seeking a Workday Payroll & Financials Lead to join a leading East Coast healthcare organization on a contract-to-hire basis. This role will play a critical part in driving end-to-end Workday solutions across Payroll and Financials, ensuring scalable, compliant, and efficient system design and operations.
This is a hands-on functional leadership role requiring deep configuration expertise, strong stakeholder management skills, and the ability to lead complex initiatives across Finance, Payroll, and IT.
Key Responsibilities
Healthcare IT Leaders provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Location: East Coast (Remote)
Job Type: Contract-to-Hire
Industry: Healthcare
Overview
We are seeking a Workday Payroll & Financials Lead to join a leading East Coast healthcare organization on a contract-to-hire basis. This role will play a critical part in driving end-to-end Workday solutions across Payroll and Financials, ensuring scalable, compliant, and efficient system design and operations.
This is a hands-on functional leadership role requiring deep configuration expertise, strong stakeholder management skills, and the ability to lead complex initiatives across Finance, Payroll, and IT.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end functional design and delivery across Workday Payroll and Financials (requirements, configuration, testing, and deployment readiness)
- Own Payroll configuration, including pay groups, earnings/deductions, calculation rules, retro processing, parallel testing, and payroll controls
- Drive Workday Financials configuration, including FDM/worktag governance, accounting rules, journals, AP, Expenses, and close-readiness controls
- Manage Payroll-to-GL integration, including costing, mapping, reconciliation, controls, and issue resolution
- Partner cross-functionally with Finance, Payroll, IT, and implementation partners (SI) to align business and technical solutions
- Establish and maintain strong governance practices, including change control, release management, documentation, and audit/compliance readiness
- Active Workday Financials (FIN) Certification (must be current and verifiable)
- Active Workday HCM Certification (required)
- Proven, hands-on Workday Payroll experience with direct ownership of system configuration (not payroll-adjacent)
- Strong, recent Workday Financials experience with ownership of design and configuration decisions
- Demonstrated experience managing end-to-end Payroll-to-General Ledger processes
- Ability to clearly articulate configuration decisions and system design ownership
Healthcare IT Leaders provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.