Workday Absence & Time Tracking Senior Principal Consultant

The Workday Absence & Time Tracking Senior Principal Consultant is a senior functional leader responsible for driving the design, delivery, and overall success of Workday Absence and Time Tracking implementations. Acting as a trusted advisor to clients and project teams, this individual provides strategic guidance on workforce management processes while ensuring solutions align with business objectives and Workday leading practices. The Senior Principal Consultant combines deep Workday expertise with delivery leadership, pre-sales support, and people development responsibilities. They lead complex solution discussions, guide implementation teams, support business development activities, and play a key role in growing the Workday practice through mentoring and knowledge sharing. Responsibilities Serve as a senior Workday Absence and Time Tracking subject matter expert, providing guidance on workforce management processes and Workday best practices. Lead client workshops, discovery sessions, and design discussions to define scalable solutions aligned to business requirements. Own solution design and provide oversight across configuration, testing, deployment, and post-go-live transition activities. Act as the functional lead for medium to large Workday Absence and Time Tracking implementations, managing key solution decisions, risks, and dependencies. Advise clients on absence management, leave administration, time entry, time calculation, scheduling, compliance, and workforce optimisation strategies. Partner with HCM, Payroll, Benefits, Integrations, Reporting, Security, Change Management, and Project Management teams to deliver integrated solutions. Support testing, data conversion, cutover, deployment, and hypercare activities throughout the project lifecycle. Mentor and coach consultants and senior consultants, providing quality reviews and functional leadership. Support business development activities including solutioning, estimations, proposals, demonstrations,