Workday Compensation & Benefits Specialist

This is a remote position.

Workday Compensation & Benefits Specialist

Job Details

• Employment Type: Contract
  
• Work Mode: Remote
  
• Location: Offshore
  
• Total Experience Required: 4 to 8 years
  
• Relevant Experience Required: 4+ years of dedicated implementation and configuration experience within Workday Compensation and Benefits modules
  
• Mandatory Certification: Workday Certified Advanced Compensation or Workday Certified Benefits
  

Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Workday Compensation & Benefits Specialist to design, configure, and optimize our global rewards architecture. The ideal candidate will translate complex focal merit cycles, variable bonus plans, multi-tier grade profiles, and open enrollment structures into highly automated, secure cloud solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Configure core and advanced compensation structures, including compensation packages, grades, grade profiles, eligibility rules, and custom allowance plans.
  
• Orchestrate global merit and bonus cycles, building focal review process flows, configuring compensation grids, and setting up manager recommendation dashboards.
  
• Design and maintain benefits programs, configuring benefit groups, plan types, health/insurance plans, coverage rules, and beneficiary tracking.
  
• Manage open enrollment events, defining passive events, enrollment calendar matrices, employee validation rules, and electronic sign-off paths.
  
• Govern security and data controls, establishing conditional domain permissions to isolate executive compensation metrics and sensitive healthcare information.
  
• Collaborate with integration and payroll teams to support downstream data transmission to payroll systems or external benefit providers via Cloud Connect for Benefits (CCB).
  
• Assess semi-annual feature upgrades, leading sandbox verification runs, validating calculation rules, and updating system documentation for new releases.
  

Requirements

• 4 to 8 years of enterprise rewards technology experience, with 4+ dedicated years actively configuring Workday Compensation or Benefits infrastructure.
  
• Strong technical mastery of the Workday Compensation Matrix, eligibility rule calculation logic, focal launch steps, and benefit program hierarchies.
  
• Deep structural understanding of global total rewards frameworks, variable bonus structures, international healthcare tiers, and corporate equity plans.
  
• Mandatory certification: Workday Certified Advanced Compensation OR Workday Certified Benefits.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Workday Certified Core HCM certification.
  
• Prior consulting experience managing global, multi-currency compensation rollouts involving complex local data residency compliance laws.