Principal Consultant – Global AMS is a well experienced post-production Workday professional who is dynamic, fast-paced, and familiar with the managed services construct. As a Workday AMS HCM Integrations Principal Consultant, you will bring your functional and business skills, ability to keep the business context in sight, and roll-up-your-sleeves work ethic to a team with a positive, can-do attitude, a collaborative culture, and a passion for helping our clients to be successful.

Key Responsibilities:

• Onshore lead who leads Functional/Technical workstream for the assigned set of accounts.

• Apply and execute various AMS & Implementation methodologies\activities in these Workday Functional/Technical engagements

• Should collaboratively work with the Global Delivery Center (GDC) team on day to day activities, incidents, root cause analysis and other work requests

• Provides on-call support and holiday coverage as required

• Deep knowledge in SLA constructs and adherence

• Coordinate with external and internal stakeholders to create high business impact.

• Contribute to the operational efficiency of the Workday practice.

• Proactively identify and develop reporting dashboards to improve Workday utilization, creating solutions that support metrics for HR and the business at large.

• Work with clients to identify/resolve all issues that could impact project scope and/or timeframe.

• Maintain the Workday platform with a focus on reporting (including scheduled reports), business process maintenance, security administration, data loads and data audits

• Ensures system design fits the needs of the user.

• Comfortable with leading multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, prioritize tasks effectively, and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

• Ability to ensure team delivers the project deliverables on time and do consistent timely reminders with vendors and project team

• Drive continual business processes improvements throughout the organization

Skills and Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering preferred, or equivalent experience

• Minimum of 5-7 years of Corporate Applications portfolio experience and at least 3-5 years’ experience in client facing roles handling managed services in a global delivery model

• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in Workday HCM Module as well as Integrations

• Should have an expert level understanding of at least Workday HCM Module as well as Integrations

• Workday certification is mandatory

• Able to multitask and perform a variety of duties

• Good communication and interpersonal skills

• Willingness to go the extra mile to solve customer problems.

• Good Analytical skills with ability to solve complex incidents, provide suggestions\best practices

• Minimal travel required, but must be willing to travel if needed

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Why choose Cognizant:

• Entrepreneurial environment that welcomes your ideas
• Opportunity to do great work
• Outreach programs that support communities and tap into your volunteer spirit
• Learning opportunities to help current needs and advancement
• Global operations, with opportunities in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific
• An abundance of Affinity groups to meet your needs

Cognizant Core Values:

• Start with a point of view: I apply my expertise to gain trust and to lead our clients forward.
• Seek data, build knowledge: I use facts to guide my actions and decisions.
• Always strive, never settle: I act with agility and creativity, determined to stay one step ahead.
• Work as one: I deliver solutions that draw upon the full power and scale of Cognizant.
• Create conditions for everyone to thrive: I include, enable, and invest in everyone around me.
• Do the right thing, the right way: I always make the ethical choice.