Workday Implementation specialist

Project overview

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

Project details

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

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

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

Personal Profile

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Start: flexible
• Duration: > 12 months
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Stockholm Metropolitan Area, Sweden, SE
• Languages: English